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Sarah Wike Loyola

High School Spanish Teacher, Technologist, Writer, Disruptor, Non-Conformist, and Life-long Learner.

Sarah Wike Loyola has been teaching middle, high school and university courses in Spanish for nearly 15 years. She received a B.A. in International Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and an M.A. in Romance Languages from UNC-Greensboro. She currently teaches and is Spanish Team Leader at Providence Day School in Charlotte, NC. In addition, she works as a technology mentor on her campus, which allows her to help and encourage colleagues to use technology to meet their individual teaching goals. She teaches a paperless course that is a hybrid of language learning and exploring new technologies titled "Spanish through Technology and Social Media". Her goal is always to marry learning Spanish with the use of authentic materials easily found online in an attempt to better relate to students. She refuses to use a textbook to meet her pedagogical goals and enjoys showing her colleagues at Providence Day and beyond how this is possible. In 2013, she presented “Marrying Technology and World Language” at the iPad Summit in Boston. She has had articles published on Edutopia and Edudemic and a lesson plan featured in EdTech magazine. This year she won the North Carolina Technology in Education “Outstanding Teacher” Award and was named to the National Association of Independent Schools cohort for “Teachers of the Future”. Besides her love of teaching, she enjoys blogging (obvs), fruitlessly trying to get ripped doing Crossfit, and passing time with her three adorable munchkins. Follow her on Twitter @SWLoyola.

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