Ms. Ana Diaz

Ana Diaz teaches Spanish at the OLC School to students in Kindergarten through to the 8th grade. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Columbia University, where she also took classes across a variety of disciplines, including in Spanish language and culture. Her breadth of intellectual interests, particularly her enthusiasm for all languages and world history, make her suited to teaching. Previously, Ms. Diaz has also taught middle school language arts through Americorps, and life skills/personal finance in the Archdiocese of Newark. Ms. Diaz is also a practicing Catholic and grateful to be a parishioner at such a beautiful and welcoming church as Our Lady of Czestochowa. 

She was born in Cuba and raised in Hialeah, Florida. Ms. Diaz likes to say that she cares a lot about a lot, from the public library to waste management, and in that spirit she hopes she can play a positive role in students’ development as learners. From their time at the OLC school, may students come away with a reverence for the wisdom of a faith-based education. What’s more, she prays for all students to grow strong across the many kinds of character virtues, and to form a lifelong curiosity about the world, each other, and how best to live in it together. 

Ms. Diaz is excited to incorporate Responsive Classroom concepts and practices in her lessons, as well as to teach using the Sonrisas Spanish curriculum which promotes learning through immersion and activities for younger as well as older students.