Background
Susy was born and raised in Lima, PerĂº. Her mother and father are both educators.
Susy was born and raised in Lima, PerĂº. Her mother and father are both educators.
Her teaching methodology includes theater, puppetry, games, and music that she composes and sings. She spent her preschool, elementary and high school years in an American school where she was immersed in the English language from age 3. Dorn got her Bachelor"s Degree in Child Development Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Dorn moved to the United States in 1998 and started Spanish classes for 8 children in the house of a friend in downtown San Jose, California.
The parent participation classes started growing by word of mouth and soon she found herself driving to different cities such as Palo Alto, Cupertino, Willow Glen and Campbell to teach classes full-time. Soon after that, she established her main Spanish classes at the Campbell Community Center, where people drove all the way from San Francisco to take them.
Later on, she hired a qualified team of native Spanish teachers and brought the program to different cities. Today the program is established in Campbell, Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, San Mateo and San Francisco attracting more than 700 children from 10 months to 9 years of age.
Several performances have been done with benefit purposes for Peruvian street children.