Storytime con Sra Jensen

I have taught high school Spanish, levels 1, 2, Honors 2, 3, Honors 3, 4, Honors 4, AP and IB Spanish over the past 21 years. I became an AP Spanish Reader in 2005 and learned so much from the colleagues from around Latin America and Spain who I now consider my family. I regularly serve on committees to evaluate, write curriculum and assessments, and present to world language teachers. I present regularly at state and national conferences such as NILA, IWLA, KWLA, NETA, UNO's MALT Colloquium and AATSP. I have sponsored Capítulo Pablo Neruda of Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica since 2010 and was Nebraska State Director 2018-2022.

My goal is to provide comprehensible input to my students and ignite in them a passion for Hispanic cultures and to interact with native speakers.

National Board Certified Teacher (World Languages other than English, Early adolescence to young adulthood) 2008, renewed in 2018; Sponsor of the Year, Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (SHH), 2017; Chapter of the Year in 2016, 1st place for Long Term Activity of the Year in 2019; Nebraska State Director of SHH, 2018-2022; 2020 NILA Teacher of the Year; 2021 Central States Teacher of the Year; 2022 ACTFL Teacher of the Year Finalist; Co-founder and administrator of Asesores de SHH, a Facebook group to support sponsors of SHH; Co-administrator of Nebraska CI Teachers, a Facebook group for Nebraska teachers who focus on teaching using comprehensible input

BA Spanish, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1994 Spanish Language Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico,1994 Teaching Certification, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1998 MS Instructional Technology, Peru State College, 2003 AP and IB training every few years since 1999

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