Career spanning 50 years in public and private education.
Department Chair of World Language in eight schools.
B.A. M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in Spanish.
Ed. M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the prestigious Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Advisory Council of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (NECTFL).
Active in the state-level Massachusetts Foreign Language Association (MaFLA) and the Eastern Massachusetts Foreign Language Department Heads Association (EMFLA).
Working on a book The Miracle of Language Acquisition: Why Learning a Second Language is so Difficult and What We Can do to Change this.