2026 Board Election Results
Date postedOctober 14, 2026
2026 AATG Election Results
The AATG is pleased to announce the 2026 election results for the national board of directors who will start in January, 2027. The AATG Board of Directors represents teachers of German throughout the United States. The Board is an elected, policy-making body, with members at pre-collegiate and post-secondary teaching levels from various regions of the country.
Representative from the Midwest Region
Jeanne Schueller, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin
Jeanne Schueller is Teaching Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is Director of Undergraduate Studies and directs the German language program. As LPD, Jeanne coordinates first- through fourth-semester German and supervises graduate TAs and instructors. In addition, Jeanne develops and coordinates a third-year reading course taught by faculty and TAs. She teaches a range of courses on film, graphic novels, and language pedagogy.
Her research focuses on the use of authentic materials, especially film and graphic novels, in language teaching and learning. Jeanne is co-author of two film-based German textbooks (Cineplex and Cinema for German Conversation) and recently published a co-authored chapter on formal post-secondary language teacher education for The Routledge Handbook of Language Program Administration. Jeanne has been active in AATG since graduate school and over the years has attended and presented regularly at ACTFL conventions. From 2016 to 2022, Jeanne served the Wisconsin Chapter of the AATG as vice president, president, and past president.
Representative from the Northeast Region
Melanie Kyer, York High School, Maine
Melanie Kyer, the 2025 EMME Teacher of the Year, has been teaching in both college and public schools since 1994. She holds a Ph.D. in German from Penn State, an MA from the University of Delaware, and a dual BA in French and German from the University of Maine. Melanie coordinates an exchange with a partner school in Obersulm, Germany, and is the director of “Deutsche Woche in Bar Harbor,” an annual professional development workshop.
She is known for strumming her ukulele and singing with students on “folk song Friday.” She is also the YHS Speech and Debate coach. She lives in Maine with her husband and two children and also writes children’s books including a picture book about cookies from diverse world cultures called “The Great Holiday Cookie Swap.”