Jessie Feliz

Jessie Feliz is an energetic and passionate educator with 15+ years of classroom experience in both the United States and in Costa Rica. She loves teaching language and literacy skills and empowering young people (especially Black American Youth) that they, too can become bilingual, study and work abroad or stateside using their bilingualism as a tool for unlocking opportunities, otherwise unknown.

Jessie loves sharing her classroom experiences (both in person and online) with others and equipping educators from all content areas with highly-effective strategies for differentiating instruction in culturally-responsive ways. Learning and teaching can and should be fun, engaging, rigorous AND standards-based all at the same time! Jessie actively seeks to address the inequities that are interwoven within the status quo of second language instruction and the expectations for second language learners, as she pioneers the Spanish S.W.A.G.™ Movement.