Stephanie Bellot-Donaldson

Stephanie Bellot-Donaldson is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early and Middle Childhood Literacy, the 2025 Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) Teacher of the Year, and a 2026 national finalist for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Teacher of the Year. She teaches Spanish Immersion at Hawthorne Elementary in Louisville, Kentucky, where she integrates translanguaging, biliteracy practices, and the science of reading to support multilingual learners. Stephanie serves as Secretary of the Kentucky Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), a district World Language Curriculum Leader, and a mentor for the University of Louisville. Her research appears in NNELL’s Learning Languages Academic Journal, and she presents nationally on multilingual literacy and MTSS for world languages.