the exceptional, Alexandra Torres, Colombian violinist, producer and cultural manager who lives in Vienna, and robert quintero, a Venezuelan percussionist and educator, who lives in New York, have once again been at Pegando la Strand, with many more awards than they have already accumulated on their previous visits. Tonight we have talked with them about … Read more
By Dr. Marcia Castillo Albert Camus is a benchmark of French and universal literature, to him we owe the renewed reading of “The Plague” and “The Foreigner”. Camus had an eventful life, marked by illness and a weak childhood, however when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature the first letter he wrote was to … Read more
María Francisca Elgueta became the winner for the general category of the Global Teacher Prize Chile, the highest educational recognition in the country, which she won thanks to her outstanding work in school reinsertion. This award is known as the Nobel for Teaching, which seeks to recognize and highlight the effort and dedication of the … Read more
Dropping out of school is a critical reality in the current context and María Francisca Elgueta (33 years old), the brand new winner of the Global Teacher Prize Chile 2022 (GTP), knows it well. The History teacher works at the Brittany School in La Granja, Metropolitan Region, where her students are young people who have … Read more
Mirian Galán Marqués (Madrid, 40 years old) has been an Early Childhood Education teacher for 20 years. She is also a speech therapist, an expert in active pedagogies, one of the creators of the Madresfera blog and founder of the education platform SuperEducalandia. Currently, he works at the Los Madroños nursery school, in the Madrid … Read more
Special: José Antonio Abreu, a universal teacher José Antonio Abreu Anselmi, affectionately known as “Maestro Abreu”, was born on May 7, 1939 in Valera, Trujillo state. At the early age of 9, he began his music studies in the city of Barquisimeto, Lara state. Then in Caracas he studied piano at the Academy of Musical … Read more
The Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945. EFE/jgb./File Gabriela Mistralpseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (April 7, 1889) was a poet, diplomat, teacher and pedagogue, work thanks to which she had a very great influence on many people, especially on the poet Pablo Neruda, in addition to having achieved recognition for his … Read more
On a day like today 65 years ago, Gabriela Mistral died in Hempstead Hospital, New York, as a result of pancreatic cancer. The noisy American city, very different from her native Vicuña in northern Chile, would see one of the most important national poets fade away. During her life, an already consecrated Mistral defined herself, … Read more
The professor of Mathematics at the Leonardo Da Vinci School in Vicuña, Maritza Arias, won the award of the sixth edition of the Global Teacher Prize Chile, in a ceremony that took place this Tuesday in the Patio de Las Comunicaciones of Televisión Nacional. This recognition seeks, since 2016, to recognize the professional role, effort … Read more
Saúl Rivera, Computer Science teacher at Colegio Angloamericano, was ranked 15th out of 50 winners of the Global Teacher Award (GTA), given by the AKS Education Award. 110 countries from six continents participated in the competition. Rivera is responsible for 10 awards that El Salvador obtained this year in international science and technology competitions with … Read more