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Mrs. Reina Martinez Department Coordinator, Spanish 3, Spanish 5 "I believe that language is our connection to the world." Mrs. Martinez has worked at North Rockland since 1988. She graduated from North Rockland and received her Bachelors of Arts degree in romance languages at St. Thomas Aquinas College and later earned her Masters in urban education at Iona College. Mrs. Gladys Garcia Mr. Michael Giammarino Spanish 3, 4, AP "Teaching provides me with the opportunity to impart a love of language and cultures, and also allows me to influence and mold today's future in a small way." Mr. "G" as he is better known has taught here for eight years. He went to school at Georgetown University and Pace. He believes, "Foreign language is taking on a whole new dimension. It used to be an option to learn, but now it is an everyday necessity." Mrs. Maddalena Harper Mrs. Niza Montero Mrs. Maria B. Morgese Mrs. Barbara Pedri Mrs. Karin Preisel Mr. Michelet Zamor Spanish 2, 3, 4 "As a kid, language was my forte. I had a lot of strength in that area because I was exposed to many languages, like Greek and Latin." Mr. Zamor grew up in Haiti and moved to the United States when he was sixteen years old. Greek was the first foreign language he learned. He attended school at St. Thomas Aquinas College and Iona College, as well as Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. When asked what his favorite moments teaching are, he said, "When a student comes back and tells me they used what they learned in my class." |