About (Elisa Toro)

Contact Info:
School: Escuela Internacional Sampedrana
Email: etoro@hotmail.com

About Me:
I was born in Tegucigalpa, DC, Honduras, Central America.

I lived in Tegus. until I was 4 years old, then my family moved to San Pedro Sula, Honduras in the north coast and I have been living here ever since. Except for 1 year that I lived in Auckland, New Zealand as an exchange student.

I have been happily married for 16 years with my highschool sweetheart! Yeah!! we went to school together since preschool and we started dating in our senior year, we went for 8 years before we got married, now we are parents of 3 beautiful sons: 12, 6 & 7 yrs old.

I have a degree in Educational Administration from Honduras National University. I got my masters degree: Master in Arts with enphasis in Educational Leadership, from Framingham State College.

I don´t get a great deal of spare time, but when I do, I love to go to the beach!!

I would like cooperate with my country Department of Education, to develop professional development sessions and opportunities for all the teachers that work in the rural zones and who have little access to training.

Professional Responsibilities:
At the moment, I work as a Pre-Kinder Teacher. I have worked as an educator in elementary, high school and college. Also I have worked as an ESL instructor.

Mano a Mano project I'm Working On (give a brief description):
It is 4 of us from Escuela Internacional , taking the Mano-a-Mano certification. We are all working together; our project is based on the 9 Educational Components-Bonnie Campell.

Our goals for the project are:

1. School wide standardization of all the 9 components, based on our common goals and standards.

2. Create an environment where parents feel comfortable with the reporting presented by teachers, in order for them to understand the value of this information.

3. Guide parents through the correct use of the information presented in the reporting documents so that they can use it wisely and become an active part in the child´s learning process.