Alma Rivera is a Spanish teacher at Appleton East High School in Appleton, WI. She started teaching in January of 2000 and have taught every level of Spanish. In addition to teaching, Alma has been a department chair, a local arrangements coordinator of her state world language conference and organization, a presenter at conferences, and a travel leader for 8 student trips to Spain.
Alma is also an adjunct at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and have been an AP® Reader for the AP® Spanish Language and Culture exam for three years. Her passions include learning, world languages, world cultures, and traveling.
Professional Development
If you are like me, it takes at least a month to get into the non-teaching frame of mind at the end of the school year. We go from a hectic state of mind to a state of calm. But with that comes that uneasy feeling that something remains undone.
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Teacher Support
Now that we’ve had about a month of this new school year, how do you feel? Overwhelmed? Exhausted? Challenged? Perhaps even discouraged? You have heard it already: This is a totally different school year. What do we do when these feelings grab at us?
