Our Staff

Our students learn from the best academic staff, with a genuine passion for preparing students with their professional careers as a result their work contributes to an outstanding student experience.

LESLY SUAZO

Elementary Principal

Lesly has a Master´s Degree of Arts in Psychology, a Bachelor of Education in Modern Languages in Teaching English to Non-native speakers/ESL, a School Certificate to Teach Undergraduate School, a Life Coaching Certificate, and a High School Diploma in Elementary School Teaching.

Our Principal has experience in international school settings as a teacher, Assistant Principal, and Principal. As a school administrator, she has spent many years developing educational plans. She believes Principals need to play different roles, and to get involved in all possible areas when providing quality education is the institutional goal.

Lesly provides positive learning environments and strengthens the school ́s climate by applying strategic leadership and practical communication skills. She strives for unity, harmony, and cooperation through tact, helpfulness, respect, and recognition of individual differences, unique abilities, and strengths of each community member. There is no doubt; nothing makes her happier than supporting teachers, parents, and students to help them become the best version of themselves and to see them learn, grow, and succeed.

Patricia Orellana

elementary Teacher

“I’ve Bachelor Degree in Education. I love teaching and I have been working for more than 20 years as a teacher here at Village School. For me, it is important that my students develop their own cognitive processes. I love Village’s Methodology because it helps children achieve their goals, provides strategies to face and overcome difficulties in their own personal lives and challenges them every day to be better”

GLENDA STOKES

Middle School Principal

Mrs. Glenda has been working in education for more than 35 years.
Education is her passion. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Master in Education from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

“I have really enjoyed watching my students grow and becoming leaders at such a young age.”

MarianA ZHAGUI

middle school Teacher

“My goal is for my students to find in mathematics the confidence to understand the world and face it equipped with the knowledge and skills that this discipline provides. I seek for the classroom to be a space for active learning, critical thinking, and collaboration, fostering autonomy and confidence in each of my students. As Plutarch said: ‘The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled,’ and that is the spirit that guides my teaching.”

Mariana is a secondary school teacher specializing in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, holding a Bachelor’s degree in Education and Learning and a diploma in Psychopedagogy. With ten years of teaching experience, she currently teaches Mathematics in 8th grade and leads the advanced Algebra 1 program.

mathew m. rose

High School Principal

I was born in San Diego, California and have spent the past twenty-five years as a professional educator and leader, spending the last twelve years overseas in international schools in Turkey and Qatar before coming to Guatemala. I hold BA and MA degrees in English from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia as well as M.E.d. degrees from Liberty University in Virginia in Teaching and Learning and Supervision and Leadership. I also spent six years completing my doctoral studies in Religion and Literature at the University of Virginia before entering my career in secondary education. I am passionate about strategic school improvement, having served on many accreditation review teams with Cognia in the LATAM region, and I have been a presenter at both Tri-Association and AMISA conferences in the past three years. I look forward to building upon my past experience here at Village and to bringing about wider recognition of the top-quality instruction and learning I see in the classrooms here every day.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela

Yahann Romero

High school Teacher

“I am a passionate advocate of the value of transformation through education. I believe that each of our students has the capacity to overcome obstacles and conflicts when they are given the right tools to shape their own futures. If we teach our students to question their realities, to shape it with new knowledge, and to become active agents of transformation for a greater good they will become great citizens, leaders, but mostly, great human beings.”

Mr. Romero holds a B. A. in Hispanic Literature and Philosophy, a teaching degree in Spanish Literature and Language and teaching certificates by College Board, Museum of Modern Art of New York, and Universidad de Palermo in Argentina.

Join our Village staff!

If your are interested in being part of our Village team please send your resume to rrhh@village.edu.gt