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Location	Houston, TX, United States
Introduction	Claude Gérard Boutin has been a teacher and the school director of the Alliance française from 1980 through 1995 in the United States. He is now a French teacher and the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Fort Bend Baptist Academy in Sugar Land, Texas. Claude Boutin has been developing the ORCA program since 1986 and sees it as a wonderful tool for allowing our American and French students to better understanding. American teachers of French have also gone to France through the ORCA program. Claude Gérard Boutin is a past president of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) in the Houston Area, and is a Texas Foreign Language Association (TFLA) member as well. He was awarded the title of Knight of the “Palmes académiques” (French Academic Palms) from the French Government in 1993, and awarded again Officer of the “Palmes académiques” in 2007, for his education achievements and promotion of the French language and culture. He was named the USA's AATF 2005 French Teacher of the Year. Also, he was named the TFLA 2006 Teacher of the Year.

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Houston, TX, United States

Introduction

Claude Gérard Boutin has been a teacher and the school director of the Alliance française from 1980 through 1995 in the United States. He is now a French teacher and the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Fort Bend Baptist Academy in Sugar Land, Texas. Claude Boutin has been developing the ORCA program since 1986 and sees it as a wonderful tool for allowing our American and French students to better understanding. American teachers of French have also gone to France through the ORCA program. Claude Gérard Boutin is a past president of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) in the Houston Area, and is a Texas Foreign Language Association (TFLA) member as well. He was awarded the title of Knight of the “Palmes académiques” (French Academic Palms) from the French Government in 1993, and awarded again Officer of the “Palmes académiques” in 2007, for his education achievements and promotion of the French language and culture. He was named the USA's AATF 2005 French Teacher of the Year. Also, he was named the TFLA 2006 Teacher of the Year.