Tulsa Public Schools welcoming newest teacher recruits from Spain
Luis Plaza Vela likens his opportunity to teach in America to an athlete going pro.
“I teach English, so this is like playing in the Premier League,” the Madrid native said. “If you want to teach English, there is no better place than here to learn more and improve my teaching abilities.”Tulsa Public Schools is welcoming Plaza Vela and 11 of his fellow countrymen as teachers. When the new school year begins in August, they will join 15 other Spaniards recruited since 2014 to teach in Tulsa classrooms.
That was the year the Oklahoma State Department of Education selected TPS and the Oklahoma City school districts for a guest teacher program with Spain that many other states have already been participating in for nearly three decades.
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