The Early College Experience summer training institute for high school Spanish teachers was sponsored by UConn’s Early College Experience (ECE) Program, which works with high schools in Connecticut to help students get an early start on their university careers.

“Like going to Spain for a few days” was how veteran Spanish teacher Joanne Choquette of Plainville High School described a recent three-day professional development institute at UConn for high school teachers,” reports Uconn Today. “Ella Kremens, a Spanish teacher at Wolcott High School, said the UConn program, conducted entirely in Spanish, provided an immersion experience. “It was like a post-graduate course towards my master’s at the University; the discussion was at that level.”

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