Spanish Program Staff

Yoly Perez, Spanish Program Lead Teacher Pre-K/K

Vivian Mitchell, Spanish Elementary and Middle School Teacher

Cindy Casallas- Fautogue, Intern Teacher

The Spanish Program Staff can be reached at spanish@coloradointernationalschool.org

Staff Spotlight

Yolanda Perez, Spanish preK/K Yolanda Perez (Yoly) is from Lima, Perú. She have been married for 31 years to Rómulo Patino and has a daughter Claudia who has a BA degree in advertisement but is also in the education field and two sons Ruben and Felipe who are very happily married to girls from Colorado.Yoly has a B.A. in Spanish and Education from D’Youville College in Buffalo New York. She has worked for over 20 years as an ESL instructor and English teacher for   Pre-K to adult education in Perú. Yoly has worked with the Montessori school at Greenwood Plaza in Denver for 2 years, as head teacher in one of the pre-school classes and as a Spanish teacher in the elementary classes.One of the most rewarding experiences for her has been working as a Pre-K teacher   in a full immersion Spanish program for over 2 years. Yoly is a very strong believer that  the best way to learn a foreign language is in a full immersion language program…”the younger… the better”She is very proud and happy to be part of the CoIS team, because she believes that teaching  is a very challenging and rewarding career, but most of all because she loves working with children.