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CREATE A THRIVING, IMPACTFUL SPANISH CLASSROOM
And rediscover your passion for teaching while making a difference.
At Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy (GWP), YOU WILL BE EMPOWERED with ALL THE TOOLS to create a comprehensible, engaging, and culturally rich classroom, without wondering how to start or what to do next. See your students grow in proficiency and cultivate authentic cultural competence, and get back to WHY you became a Spanish teacher.Â
As a Spanish teacher, you dream of your students growing beyond just words—you want them to achieve true proficiency and develop a deep, authentic understanding of culture.
But let’s be honest...  feeling overwhelmed and powerless can make that dream feel out of reach.
I know exactly how you're feeling! That's why I created Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy.Â
INSIDE GROWING WITH PROFICIENCY - THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY:
You’ll join the ultimate community for Spanish teachers—a place where you’ll find EVERYTHING YOU NEED to create a thriving and impactful classroom. With monthly ready-to-use resources, a four-level Spanish curriculum, expert training, and ongoing support, you’ll finally have the tools to deliver compelling, comprehensible input with confidence and ease.
Here’s What You’ll Gain:
✨ Save Time and Energy: Say goodbye to endless hours searching for the perfect resources or figuring out what to do next.
✨ Expert Guidance: Access a self-paced course and a comprehensive library of masterclasses that cover everything—from designing engaging lessons to mastering strategies for reading, listening, writing, speaking, assessments, classroom management, and beyond.
✨ Ready-to-Use Resources: Jump straight into impactful teaching with materials that simplify your planning and engage your students.
✨ The New Creciendo Curriculum (in Beta): Explore an innovative, culturally rich curriculum designed to transform your classroom into a hub of meaningful language acquisition.
✨ Unwavering Support: Stay on track with monthly coaching sessions, planning workshops, and live Q&A opportunities to tackle your biggest challenges.
Right now, you may be thinking...
➡ I would like to use more Spanish in class but there is so much resistance from my students.
➡ I would like to have compelling content in my class, but I don’t know how to start or have the time.
➡ My students seem disengaged in class. No matter what I do, they are continuously distracted, on their phones, or asking to go to the bathroom. It’s exhausting.
➡ I want to move away from grammar and vocabulary lists to a more comprehensible, culturally rich, and communicatively-driven instruction but where should I start?
➡ I frequently feel behind in covering the curriculum, doing all the activities, and grading. I’m frustrated, and so are my students.
IF THIS IS YOU, GWP The Spanish Teacher Academy can help!
"Ser parte de la academia ha transformado mis clases de español. No solo disfruto más mis clases , sino que me siento mucho más confiada al enseñar mis lecciones. He visto un notable crecimiento en la escritura de mis alumnos. Las estrategias como “Write and Discuss”, “Estudiante Estrella” y “Free Writes” han sido muy efectivas. Mis estudiantes han producido trabajos de mayor calidad y mis colegas siempre me preguntan cómo logré que mis estudiantes alcanzaran ese nivel. Me siento más libre para desarrollar mis propias ideas; y las unidades de la academia me sirven de ejemplo e inspiración."
ANGELA, DABNEY - SPANISH TEACHER
INSIDE GROWING WITH PROFICIENCY - THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY-
you will…
 💫 Gain Confidence and Clarity: Master the foundation of Second Language Acquisition with our self-paced course, providing you with a framework to easily adjust or create your curriculum.
đź’« Stay Ahead with Ongoing Support: Benefit from monthly training, coaching and planning together sessions that offer new strategies, troubleshoot challenges, and help you plan effectively, so you never feel stuck again.
đź’« Access Expert Guidance and Inspiration:Â Â Explore over 50 masterclasses on diverse strategies and activities, giving you fresh ideas and techniques to enhance your teaching.
đź’« Keep Students Engaged with Ready-to-Use Resources:Â Receive monthly resources that are both compelling and comprehensible, so you don't have to spend hours finding for what to do tomorrow in your class.Â
💫 FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER implement a Comprehensive Curriculum: Utilize parts or our entire beta curriculum for four Spanish levels, featuring culturally rich units with narratives that make learning relevant and exciting, making your job easier and more fulfilling. I know you will learn too!
What if I told you that teaching Spanish can be joyful and your students could say this...
“This class is absolutely amazing! I have laughed so much this year. It's kind of weird to have fun at school but it happened in this class. Gracias!”
“This class is pretty unique compared to most other classes that use more traditional learning styles (desks, worksheets, homework, etc.). It's challenging in a good way, and I'm surprised how much Spanish I learned in one year.”
“I've never had another teacher teach in this way, and I genuinely believe it is effective and engaging to students. This class was the highlight of my days.”
“In the past, learning Spanish felt like a chore, but this class is fun and we really talk”Â
“I couldn’t believe that I read an entire novel in Spanish and I understood"
“AP was my favorite Spanish class because I got to use a lot of Spanish and I wasn’t afraid if I was wrong”Â
I know this is possible because this is what my students shared in their end-of-the-year conference. And this is what your students can say about your class too!
INTRODUCING GROWING WITH PROFICIENCY
**THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY**
Comprehensive Professional Development Tailored to You!
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Experience a self-paced course about Second Language Acquisition, the pillars and a framework, and a hub featuring over 50 masterclasses. From the basics of comprehensible-based teaching like TPR, story asking, and story listening, to advanced strategies such as clip chat, teaching with novels and write and discuss, you'll gain a wealth of knowledge.
In addition, participate or watch the replay of live monthly training with experts, ensuring you have the deep understanding and practical skills needed for success.
Resources, Templates & Curriculum!
Each month, access ready-to-use resources tailored for the season, including Calendar Talk, Star Student Interview questions, and three articles from Panorama Cultural.
Access a growing library of over 50 templates with effective activities and games, complete with student instructions. Plus, explore our beta version of the in-construction 👷🏽‍♀️ Creciendo Curriculum, designed for four levels and based on culturally rich narratives to engage and inspire your students.
You'll have it all!
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Ongoing Support and the Best Community for Spanish Teachers!
Beyond professional development and resources, we know the biggest challenges you face in the classroom are behind doors.Â
That's why we have monthly hot seats and planning together sessions to tackle these obstacles head-on.
Plus, connect with a community of over 200 Spanish teachers, sharing support, encouragement, and celebration.Â
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"Las sesiones de entrenamiento mensuales con Claudia y lxs invitadxs forman la mayor parte de mi desarrollo profesional. Gracias a estas sesiones, he aprendido muchas estrategias que han enriquecido mis clases y ayudado a mi alumnado muchĂsimo. Claudia ha sido mi mentora nĂşmero uno durante los Ăşltimos tres cursos acadĂ©micos, y la mayorĂa de los Ă©xitos que experimento en el aula es el resultado de la formaciĂłn que he recibido en la Academia."."
CAROLINE MOOSERÂ - SPANISH TEACHER
JOINÂ GROWING WITH PROFICIENCY THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY TODAY!
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
$44/month
+ Access to self-pace courses about Second Language Acquisition, the Pillars and the Framework. (VALUE $297)
+ Access to the entire Professional Development Hub with more than 50 masterclasses (VALUE $2,500)
+ Monthly training and coaching calls (3 monthly calls). (VALUE $300/monthly & $3,000/yearly)
+ Access to more than 50 templates (VALUE $250)
+ Monthly drip access to the monthly resources and the Creciendo Curriculum with three-month rotations (in beta) (VALUE $200).Â
JOIN THE ACADEMY MONTHLYOR
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
$427/year
($36/month)
BEST PRICE - SAVE $91
+ Everything in our Monthly Membership (VALUE $6,047), PLUS...
+ Instant access to the full Creciendo Curriculum (in beta) plus access to all the resources year around (VALUE $800)
JOIN THE ACADEMY YEARLY
What our members are saying...
Gracias a la Academia he aprendido a estructurar mejor mis unidades. He aprendido mas estrategias para conocer mejor a mis estudiantes y establecer y mantener una buena relaciĂłn con ellos. Me siento segura de como empezar el año escolar y que hacer en comparaciĂłn al estrĂ©s y ansiedad que sentĂa años anteriores.Â
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- Maritza Vakas, Spanish teacherÂ
La academia me ha servido mucho a no sentirme sola.Â
Ya no me estanco porque tengo este grupo para hacer preguntas y tener mas ideas de como sobrellevar situaciones difĂciles.Â
TambiĂ©n me encantan los materiales y los videos que puedo ver tantas veces como necesite.Â
-Â Viviana Arcineda - Spanish teacher
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I've been a member of the academy since the beginning. The academy really helped me to foster personal connections with students and that has helped get their buy in.Â
I love that I can reach out to the academy for help when I need it and that the resources are there even if I don't always attend all the training sessions.
-Â Laura Solomon, Spanish teacher
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When you enroll during this special, limited time period,
you’ll get access to:
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THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY + THE CRECIENDO CURRICULUM
(A $ 6,047 Value)
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Become the expert in your class with our Professional Development Hub
With more than 50 sessions, these on demand videos will give you all the knowledge you need about Second Language Acquisition plus strategies and tools to tackle all the aspects of teaching a Spanish class.Â
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Put Your Energy Into Interactions With Your Students And Reclaim Your Personal Time By Streamlining Preparation.
With access to a comprehensive curriculum, ready-to-use resources, and editable templates, you can save valuable time on planning. This allows you to focus more on delivering high-quality, engaging lessons that captivate your students and foster effective learning. It also reduces stress and workload, giving you more time for personal development, reflection, and addressing individual student needs, ultimately leading to a more balanced and fulfilling teaching experience.  -
Feel Supported, Inspired, and Continuously Growing With THE BEST Community and Monthly Coaching Calls:
With monthly coaching class and planning together session you will not feel stuck again! Not only you will get to ask your specific questions and plan with us once per month, but you will have access to 200+ Spanish teachers around the world. Each one of these teachers are passionate, caring and incredibly generous. This is priceless!!!
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WHEN YOU JOIN GROWING WITH PROFICIENCY
THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY
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This is exactly what you'll get ⬇️
THE COURSE
Value $297
Gain clarity about how our students acquire the language, how to build a solid foundation for your class and how to incorporate a framework to plan all your lessons with our self-pace course. This self-face course is located inside our Professional Development Hub.Â
Each lesson is short and easily digestible with accompanying workbooks. Discover the pillars to build a comprehensible and communicatively-driven class and a framework to design an effective curriculum.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HUB
Value $2,500
Explore more than 50 masterclasses inside our user-friendly Professional Development Hub.
These masterclasses are covering specific strategies to enhance all areas of your class, including building classroom culture, delivering comprehensible input, boosting engagement, incorporating games, strategies and activities for reading and listening, supporting output and interpersonal communication, designing assessment, and mastering classroom management.
MONTHLY TRAINING AND COACHING
Value $300/month $3,000/year
Benefit from a monthly training session led by experts so you can add more strategies to your tool box. Be always ahead of the game.Â
In addition, join our group coaching hot seat and planning sessions guided by Claudia to answer your questions and refine your teaching plans. If you cannot make it, you can always submit your questions!
CRECIENDO CURRICULUMÂ
in construction 👷🏽‍♀️ (beta)
+ MONTHLY RESOURCES
Value $800
Discover the power of our comprehensive Creciendo Curriculum Beta Edition, now available for the lowest price we'll ever offer, and access future improvements including video and audio for some units! This curriculum is designed for four levels: Novice A, Novice B, Intermediate A, and Intermediate B.
Each level features multiple units rooted in culturally rich narratives. While some units are currently under revision and will be available within the next 30 days, others are in development and will be ready by the end of the first quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.
You can now access over 50 fully prepared units, with at least 9 to 15 units available for each level plus additional units perfect for different times of the year.
But that's just the beginning! Along with the curriculum, you'll receive a monthly Calendar Talk resource, Star Student Interview questions, and 3 articles of Panorama Cultural with 2 versions.
And there's more! You'll have access to an extensive collection of templates, including brain breaks, games, and many activities.
These resources allow you to mix and match activities tailored to your student's needs.
THE COMMUNITY
Priceless!
Join THE BEST community of more than 200 passionate and like-minded Spanish teachers who share your journey.
In this community, you'll find teachers from all over the world teaching at different levels and in different contexts!Â
Here’s what you’re getting when you enroll today:
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The Spanish Teacher Academy + Creciendo Curriculum - $6,847 Value
- Bonus 1 -Â Winter Conference $300 Value
- Bonus 2 - Well-Being Module with Guided Meditations and Breathing Exercise $300 Value
- Bonus 3 - A Growing Tech Tool Hub $197 Value
Total Bonus Value: $797
When you add it all up, that’s a value of $7,644
But when you join today, you’ll get access to everything for just:
$44/month
+ Access to self-pace courses about Second Language Acquisition, the Pillars and the Framework. (VALUE $297)
+ Access to the entire Professional Development Hub with more than 50 masterclasses (VALUE $2,500)
+ Monthly training and coaching calls (3 monthly calls). (VALUE $300/monthly & $3,000/yearly)
+ Access to more than 50 templates (VALUE $250)
+ Monthly drip access to the monthly resources and the Creciendo Curriculum with three-month rotations (in beta) (VALUE $200).Â
JOIN THE ACADEMY MONTHLYOR
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
$427/year
($36/month)
BEST PRICE - SAVE $91
+ Everything in our Monthly Membership (VALUE $6,047), PLUS...
+ Instant access to the full Creciendo Curriculum (in beta) plus access to all the resources year around (VALUE $800)
JOIN THE ACADEMY YEARLY
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I teach lower levels only or higher levels only?
What if I don’t have any prior knowledge about Second Language Acquisition or comprehensible input?
What if I teach a language other than Spanish?
Can I cancel my subscription?
Can I be reimbursed if I want to cancel before the end of my billing period?
In which language are all the training videos, demos, and live sessions?
When do I have access to the Creciendo curriculum?
What about the monthly releases?
How many live sessions do we have per month?
What happens if I cannot make it to the session?
What happens if I cannot make it to the session?
Do you accept POs?
JOINÂ GROWING WITH PROFICIENCY THE SPANISH TEACHER ACADEMY TODAY!
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
$44/month
+ Access to self-pace courses about Second Language Acquisition, the Pillars and the Framework. (VALUE $297)
+ Access to the entire Professional Development Hub with more than 50 masterclasses (VALUE $2,500)
+ Monthly training and coaching calls (3 monthly calls). (VALUE $300/monthly & $3,000/yearly)
+ Access to more than 50 templates (VALUE $250)
+ Monthly drip access to the monthly resources and the Creciendo Curriculum with three-month rotations (in beta) (VALUE $200).Â
JOIN THE ACADEMY MONTHLYOR
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
$427/year
($36/month)
BEST PRICE - SAVE $91
+ Everything in our Monthly Membership (VALUE $6,047), PLUS...
+ Instant access to the full Creciendo Curriculum (in beta) plus access to all the resources year around (VALUE $800)
JOIN THE ACADEMY YEARLY
Let me take you back to 2004
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I started teaching in October of 2004. Very quickly I discovered that there was more to language teaching than what the textbooks offered.
After a few years of frustration, it was obvious that the problem was not that my students didn't study enough or didn't pay attention to my explanations about ser or estar.Â
This realization sparked an obsession with second language acquisition, supporting students on their proficiency journey, and fostering cultural competence.
Over the years, I've shared my knowledge, coached language educators, created my own curriculum, and ventured into podcasting. Yet, I always longed for a community beyond single sessions or conferences.
In 2021, I took a leap of faith and founded Growing With Proficiency - The Spanish Teacher Academy.
Our vibrant family of educators has grown, impacting hundreds of Spanish teachers worldwide.
This year marks the third anniversary of Growing With Proficiency, and I'm thrilled to introduce the most requested element to our community - my curriculum: the Creciendo curriculum. It's not "perfect," but after hearing so many success stories from teachers, I've decided to share it with you as a beta edition.
Join us if you seek support, resources, and inspiration on your journey as a Spanish teacher. Let's make a lasting impact on our students' lives together!
Ăšnete hoy y nos vemos dentro de la academia.
Claudia
