My academic background includes graduating from Western Connecticut State University with a B.S. in Secondary Education - Spanish. I was a member of KDP, an education honor society and graduated in the top 10% of my class. I was inspired to pursue teaching Spanish for a couple of reasons: 1.) living in Madrid, Spain for 3 years (at the impressionable ages of 14 - 16), where I fell in love with the language and culture, and 2.) my father taught Spanish at the United States Military Academy at ...