Creating the top students in the nation to be college, career, citizenship and resiliency ready

Señor Calderón

International Languages Department


✉️ Email: rcalderon@smjuhsd.org


Professional Acknowledgments:
  • Santa Barbara County Education Office Teachnet Technology Grant Accelerated Communication in Designated ELD 
  • Lucia Mar Unified K-12 English Language Learners District TOSA
  • Lucia Mar Unified School District K-12 Teacher of the Year
  • Paulding Middle School Teacher of the Year, LMUSD
  • El Camino Jr. High School Teacher of the Year, Santa Maria Bonita School District
  • Angel in Education Award Kiwanis Club, Santa Maria Bonita School District
  • Published Author

Guest Speaker:

  • Latino Book and Family Festival California State University Los Ángeles, CA,
  • California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo World Languages and Cultures
  • California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Lambda Theta Phi,
  • The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
  • Tía Chucha's Centro Cultural and Bookstore, Sylmar, CA
  • Lucia Mar Unified School District English Language Learners Reclassification Celebration Night K-12 Keynote Speaker, Clark Center, Arroyo Grande, CA 

Education:

  • Bachelor of Arts History , California State University Bakersfield [cum laude]; Minor: Political Science, Phi Alpha Theta (Academic History Honor Society)
  • Master of Arts Teaching, Chapman University
  • California Teaching Credentials: Foreign Language: Spanish, English, Social Science

Courses Taught:

Spanish 3, Spanish for Spanish Speakers 2


Espanol

Vive la vida

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Standards

California World Languages Standards 2019

Test your knowledge of the Spanish-speaking world with this simple quiz in English. Or take the quiz en español. Check your results. Suerte.
Seal of Biliteracy
Conjugate a Spanish verb
Google Maps en español
Palabra del día (word of the day)
Install International Keyboard
How to type Spanish characters/accents
How to order from a Taco Truck
Let's learn the "ser" (to be) verb musically!
Let's learn the "tener" (to have) verb musically!
Talk about something that has just occurred
Talk about something that will occur in the immediate future
Pronounce Spanish-speaking Countries
!QUE VIVA EL ESPAÑOL!

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The Bilingual Mind

The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain

Conjugar un verbo
Palabra de día
Mapa del mundo en español
Instalar el teclado internacional
Cómo teclar las tildes/los acentos
"Dar -Amado Nervo (poema)
"Alégrate" -Amado Nervo (poema)
"Cultivo una rosa blanca" -José Julián Martí (poema y análisis)
"El sur" -Jorge Luis Borges (análisis)
Los voladores de Papantla (indígenas totonacas)
¿De dónde proviene el nombre "Guadalajara"?
¿Quién fue Pablo Neruda?
Los países hispanohablantes (con mapa)