Meet Our Team
Teacher Qualifications
- Teachers must be native Spanish speakers.
- Teachers must have a Bachelor’s degree at a minimum.
- Teachers must be CPR certified every two years and have background checks performed.
- Teachers are required to have 20 hours of continuing education per year in addition to yearly immersion training, Zoo Phonics training and Handwriting without Tears training.
Meet Our Directors
She from Oaxaca,Mexico and has been living in Atlanta since 1995. She has a degree in Business from Universidad Unico de Guadalajara. She feels teaching young children is the most gratifying and fun experience. She has two grown children of her own and lives in Buckhead.
She currently lives in Sandy Springs with her husband and 2 daughters (and a teacup Chihuahua). She truly enjoys working with children and is a strong believer of bilingual immersion and the many benefits it has to offer. Sra. Ara enjoys cooking, arts and crafts, and traveling. She considers herself a happy person, organized and especially loving with children.
She is excited to become the Director of the Suwanee campus, because she loves working with preschool children while watching them grow, learn new things, and become more confident. She is looking forward to sharing her language and culture with the children and believes introducing young children to a second language, like Spanish, gives them access to countless opportunities, broadens their cultural horizons, and gives them the best advantage in developing the pronunciation, structure, and intonation of the new language easily.
In her free time, she likes to travel with her husband and 3 kids and watch movies and sports.
A school is only as great as its teachers, and we have the best!
Meet Our Teachers
Her decision to become a teacher was influence by her father, who was an amazing educator. This admiration for him made her follow his steps.
After finishing her college degree in Spain, She moved to the United States to teach Spanish to an American family. That was a big opportunity for her since She could improve her teaching skills and English at the same time.
Working with children of different ages helped her develop different teaching methods and strategies. Her creativity is really useful to design fun and entertaining activities for young children. It is very pleasing to see them enjoying and learning simultaneously.
“It is my goal to combine my experience and knowledge with my ability to learn new things to improve as a professional educator. Teaching is not only a career, it is my passion.”
teaches Spanish, because it is the second most spoken language in the world and the fourth most used to communicate internationally.
She is very happy to be part of the TSA family and looks forward to giving the kids all of her care, support, love, and knowledge. She is excited about teaching them Spanish and all the rich Latin American culture. She loves working with children because their love and joy make her see the world differently. She enjoys exercising, cooking at home, and eating healthy food. She also loves nature and taking care of animals.