2026 NYSAFLT Annual Conference

I always knew I would be a teacher. My mom is a teacher and I grew up around red marking pens, gradebooks, and worksheets. But it wasn’t until 7th grade that I knew what I wanted to teach. That first day of Spanish class when Señor jumped up on a desk and started singing in Spanish – that did it. His passion inspired me and I fell in love with the languages and the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

I began my career as a teacher of Spanish, French, and ESL. My website (www.miscositas.com) offers free materials for teaching Chinese, English, French, and, Spanish. I love presenting workshops at local, regional, and national conferences and in schools throughout the United States and around the world. My areas of research and curriculum development are culture-rich and content-based language teaching and early/elementary language teaching and learning.

I am crazy about axolotls and capybaras (and lots of other cute critters) and enjoy designing thematic units about them!