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Contributors
Olivia Roller has been teaching Spanish for 19 years. She has taught Spanish to levels Pre-K thru college in face-to-face settings and online. Her career has taken her from suburban city high school to urban county high school and from community college to four- year university as an adjunct professor. She is gifted endorsed, ESOL certified, teaches International Baccalaureate and has taught AP. She has a Master’s degree in Spanish from the prestigious Middlebury College Language Schools and was a 2006 recipient of the Toyota Teachers Scholarship trip to the Galapagos Islands. Olivia is active in AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) and ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language) and serves as the Middle Years Program IB coordinator at her school. Her students has consistently performed well on the National Spanish exam, the AP Spanish Literature exam and the IB Language B Diploma exams. Lastly, Olivia is a travel addict who has taken students on trips to Mexico, Peru, Spain and Costa Rica and has traveled and studied personally in Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Spain and Mexico. She is currently working on her Ed.S in Curriculum and Instruction: Education of Diverse Populations with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell Online.
Melyn Roberson has worked in education for twenty years after pursuing a career in International Business. As an educator, she has developed and taught beginning to advanced learners in age and ability while overseas, in public and private institutes, universities and most recently high school. She pursued National Board Certification, is a Fulbright scholar, gifted endorsed, a Georgia Master Teacher, teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes, received a Master’s and Specialist degree and various scholarships overseas in order to enhance her professional growth and development. Melyn is active in professional organizations and presents as a guest lecturer for methodology courses, state, regional, national and international conferences for modern language teachers. She has been recognized as an Educator of the year by the city of Smyrna, Teacher of the Year by the Foreign Language Association of Georgia and Teacher of Excellence by the Southern Conference on Language Teaching. Lastly, Melyn is a life-long learner and loves to travel for a new perspective and updated language skills.
Credits
CLAS would like to extend a special thank you to Julio E. Lynch Lorca, who developed and wrote the original content of the website. The right to the materials were acquired by CLAS from Julio Lynch-Lorca in 2016.
A note from the author: “I came to Nashville in 1995 and decided to establish residency here after many years in different places in Europe and the United States. I left Chile for Brussels, Begium, in 1960 where I graduated from the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts in Graphic Design.
As a professional, first working in the Creative Departments of Advertising agencies, then in Corporate Design and lastly in the field of Publications, I did it all in Chile, France, England, Spain, and the United States. Here in Nashville I have continued my work in Graphic Arts at the personal art level and also as a translator, interpreter and teacher of Spanish.
I find that the beauty of Tennessee is expressed in its well-defined seasons: the fire of autumn, the cold gray (and short!) of winter, the explosion of spring colors that is confused with the green summer, abundant, warm and long. I enjoy living in Nashville, to the rhythm of all the endless music of the city and the peace I always find at Radnor Lake.”
