Director - Ms. Taizu Wold - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

I am delighted tobe serving as Director for a second year here at Escuela Las Morochas.  The Year of the Dolphin promises to be a year of growth and achievement for ELM, and I thank all those families that have chosen to enroll their students in our program.
My sister Sieneh (ELM’s Early Childhood Education Coordinator) and I were born in West Africa, and attended a series of international schools in Africa and South America, graduating from FDR in Lima, Peru.  I then earned my BA from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and later completed my teacher certification through Oakland University in Michigan.  I hold a Masters in Spanish from Central Michigan University and currently spend my summers taking post-masters courses in International Administration through the College of New Jersey.

Danish author, Isak Dinesen, once wrote “The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”  Like Dinesen, I am inspired by the beauty and diversity of the sea.  in this Year of the Dolphin.

I see our teaching staff as intelligent, compassionate, playful dolphins: constantly swimming ahead of our students to show them the way; swimming alongside our students to encourage them; and splashing in and out of the water to make our students smile, all the while leading them towards our shared goal of reaching their full academic potential, and becoming life-long learners and responsible global citizens.

At Escuela Las Morochas, we follow an “open communication model.” We communicate with monthly newsletters, emails, parent drop-ins, parent meetings by request, and student led conferences.  Your concerns are important to us.  Do not hesitate to contact our front office for a meeting at any time.

ECE Coordinator - Sieneh Wold

“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand…what he learns and the way he understands it.”  Soren Kierkegaard

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”  Albert Einstein 1940

My job as a teacher is to learn from my students: to learn about their interests, their strengths, their imaginations and their vision of the future. Once my students trust me with their knowledge, it is my joy to guide them as they develop ways of communicating that knowledge with the rest of the world.

I am a learner, a mentor, a coach, a cheerleader, a teacher.

Lower School Coordinator - Lori Eilers

Upper School Coordinator - Trudy Crossbourne

"Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions."

-- William Allin

Working with adolescents, more often than not, automatically implies that you will not know all the answers to the questions students have. And in some cases, especially in Science, the answers to their questions may not even exist as yet.  As a teacher, I strive to create a learning environment where students are encouraged to share their curiosities about life, to question their many observations and experiences; they are also guided in exploring these interests, so that independently, they can discover the possible answers to these questions. I enjoy learning along with my students and even from them, I look forward to learning something new every day. It was John Cotton Dana who said, "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." I strongly believe that learning should be a lifelong experience; one that is not exclusively limited to acquiring new information but should also extend to adopting better habits. By utilizing the Escuela Las Morochas RESPECT model as part of my classroom policy, my instruction focuses not only on developing the mind but also builds student integrity.

“Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King, Jr.