Advanced Spanish Conversation Online February 9-April 13 2025

About the Instructor

Rocío Jacoby
Spanish Instructor

Rocío Jacoby was born and raised in Trujillo, Peru and moved to the USA in 2000. Rocio holds National Board Certification in World Language Spanish and has taught elementary and middle school Spanish for 20 years. She holds Spanish and ESL endorsements and previously taught ESL at the college level. Rocio received her M.Ed. in Instructional Leadership from the University of Illinois -Chicago and her BS in Education – Foreign Language from Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Peru. She is a member of NNELL, ACTFL, and ICTFL. She has presented at ACTFL, ICTFL, NNELL, Conference in the Cloud and worked as an Apprentice Coach at iFLT. In addition to Spanish and English, she speaks some French and Italian. She is raising her 3 children to be bicultural, bilingual, global citizens. She shares her passion for language acquisition and teaching through her daily classes, professional conferences, mentoring of colleagues, and school and district level committee work. She enjoys attending ADI/CI conferences and learning from experienced teachers. She continues improving her Acquisition Driven Instruction skills and looks forward to helping and supporting other educators in their ADI journey as well.