Rosario Allauca Castillo

DIRECTOR AND LEAD TEACHER

Rosario, our Director, is also a lead teacher with more than a decade of experience with younger children. She has a Masters in Higher Education from her home country of Peru and a Masters degree in the USA. For years she has taught kindergarten and Spanish language immersion and has taught and supervised student teachers. Her calm but focused approach to working with young children endears her to the children, parents and staff whom she supervises.

Adriana Mendoza

LEAD TEACHER

Since the 9th grade, Adriana Mendoza had dreamed of becoming a teacher and is so happy to be on staff.  Hailing from Peru, she arrived in the USA for primary school. She appreciated the support and impact that her teachers had as she adjusted to her new environment and that is what motivated her to become a teacher.  She takes the intellectual development of every student very seriously. Before she received her Master’s degree in Education, she did much volunteer work in tutoring in many different levels of math, ranging from Pre-Algebra to Calculus, and Spanish, ranging from Spanish 1 to AP Spanish.

She adds, “I love working as a teacher, not just because of the knowledge that I get to pass down to my students, but also because of what the students get to teach me. I have gained new styles of approaching problems from the creative ways that students have brought into the classroom. I look forward to seeing how much all of us, the students and I, will learn from each other.

Elsa Mamani

LEAD TEACHER

Elsa has a true love for teaching. She brings many years of experience to her role at EasySpanish123. Elsa attended school in Santa Cruz in Bolivia and obtained her bachelor’s  degree in mathematics. After graduation, Elsa  went on to teach math to children and teens from ages 3 to 19. Elsa found her passion in teaching elementary age students and expanded on her experience and training here in the United States. Elsa believes that learning a second language such as Spanish has many benefits when living in a multicultural country such as the United States. She consistently strives to create a fun environment to promote learning and uses her patience and dedication to ensure that each of her students is able to excel. In addition to furthering her teaching development, Elsa enjoys traveling, sightseeing, reading, and hiking.

Elsa understands that the key to learning a language is practice and repetition and she prides herself in providing our students the platform that they need to achieve that objective.

Yaira A Abuhatab

Lead Teacher and Enrichment Coordinator – Afterschool Programs

Yaira, our Enrichment Coordinator and a Lead Teacher hails from Columbia and her love
and enthusiasm is clearly apparent. With a Masters in Biological Sciences and an
accomplished biologist, she has spent years tutoring children to reinforce mathematics,
science, and Spanish skills.
Her passion for teaching is to be able to connect with children and make sure they absorb
the information and the passion that Yaira has to offer. She is confident and experience
has shown that her dedication, patience, and love for children fives her the ability to
create strategies that allow them to acquire necessary skills.
She also appreciates the importance of acquiring a second language for the future of
children in such a diversified and multilingual country. Her dream is that the
EasySpanish123 students lucky enough to be assigned to her obtain a good understanding
of the Spanish language and use it to their full advantage in their rich and full daily life as
well as in the future.

Arnolia Estupiñan

TEACHER

Arnolia Estupiñan is happy to have joined Easyspanish to contribute her knowledge in
pedagogy and methodological processes. Her rich and engaging Colombian accest lets us
know her proud heritage. Wth more experience than most, she has 14 years of teaching
experience with 2 to 15 year-olds. Since her relocation to the United States,she has worked
in different school programs in both teaching and tutoring settings. She also worked in
daycare centers with children from 3 to 5 years old and has solid experience in pedagogy,
specifically with people with cognitive and moderate disabilities. For Arnolia, education is
the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, as well as the conduit
for acquiring skills, values, beliefs and habits.
Arnolia is a very cheerful, creative woman, and adored by her students. She is always
looking for ways to obtain more knowledge to add to her formal education. He has a degree
in Council for Professional Recognition (CDA) completed in the United States, another
degree in Social Work at the Universidad Unicatólica Lumen Gentium in Colombia, and
developed a seminar on Deepening Knowledge from the South, called: “Critical Approach
and Social Practices – A commitment to the decolonization of scientific knowledge”.
Arnolia is a woman passionate about culture and dance, and participates with enthusiasm
in educational events for the local community and is happy sharing with others.

Yania Jones

Lead teacher and Pedagogical Coordinator

Yania Jones, from Columbia, is one of our most experienced educators.
She graduated from the University of San Buenaventura in 2002 with a
degree in Public Accounting and holds the equivalent of a C.P.A. in
Columbiay. After graduating, I went on to obtain her Master’s in
Education from the Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana in 2009.
And that launched her teaching career, starting in elementary and
middle school students for a few years and then in colleges.
2023 marks her 19th year in teaching!
She came to live in the United States in 2017 and obtained her
Certification in Bilingual Education from Mundo Verde Institute (USA) in
2022.
She discovered EasySpanish123 in her 5th year in the States and was
particulary appreciative that we valued her my credentials in education
and shared her methodologies and knowledge to teach children within a
strict framework, led by instructions in Spanish from a native speaker.
We, of course, are so happy she is with us.