Marje Zschiesche-Stock has long-standing experience in a variety of institutional and classroom settings, teaching German language and culture at all levels and age groups. She has also been training German language teachers across the globe, providing supports for them to succeed in digital learning environments and to utilize cutting-edge methodologies in their second-language teaching. Marje holds an M.Ed.(Staatsexamen) in German and English from the University of Goettingen. As founding director of Das Deutschteam, she has provided training to high school teachers and university instructors in Canada and the USA. She is also a certified Goethe Institut teachers’ trainer (DLL) as well as a certified Goethe Institut examiner and instructor on all language levels. Her approach to teaching languages is decidedly communicative and guided by the conviction that the language classroom of the 21st century thrives on fusing the best of both in-person and digital learning environments.