Valerie Navarro

at American School of Warsaw

Valerie Navarro has a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Cultural Studies. Over her career, she has taught MYP/DP French, Spanish, Russian and Theatre at Henry Foss IB World School, and more recently in Prague, Moscow and Warsaw. She believes that through acquiring other languages we have access to an expanded mindset and appreciation of the arts. She makes it a priority to help students see the rich potential for personal growth that comes from interacting with members of a target culture. Her philosophy is that through contact with native speakers from contrasting cultural contexts, we are able to develop and appreciate different aspects of our own selves.