Jerome Booker
            The instructor for Levels 1 and 2 will be Jerome Booker, a Certified Bilingual Specialist who has lived and worked in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico. He has a Master Degree but did not study Spanish in the USA: instead he attended the Spanish Language Institute of San Jose, Costa Rica, an institute that specializes in teaching conversational Spanish not academic Spanish. Mr. Booker has worked as an educator in the areas of Spanish Language Instruction and Migrant Education for 8 years. He also served as ESL/Bilingual consultant for Region 5 Education Services Center for the Texas Education Agency and has coordinated a teacher exchange between Mexico and the United States through the Center for Migrant Education in San Marcos, Texas. During the past three years he has taught Conversational Spanish to over 2000 adults through Spanish Language Services. We think you will enjoy the excitement and energy that Mr. Booker brings to the classroom. Class instruction is in English but practice is in Spanish, not the Castilian Academic Spanish taught in College but the Spanish spoken in Mexico and Central America.

Minellie Velasquez
          The instructor for Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be Minellie Velasquez, a native of Honduras and a graduate of Lamar University. She has served as an interpreter and translator.  She also offers private one-on-one to students who would like to improve their Spanish speaking ability. Ms. Velasquez has taught our advance classes and has help in the production of all our textbooks, computer and audio CDs. She adds the special touch to the advance levels giving the participants the opportunity to converse with a native Spanish speaker while they practice their lessons. Level 3 instruction is given 50% in English and 50% in Spanish. Level 4 is 100% Spanish instruction. We are sure you will enjoy her outgoing personality and her patience with the students. She herself has recently learned a second language and understands what her students are going through.