Lily Soledad Correa Vera joins the Foreign Language department at Tabb Middle School all the way from her native Chile. Most of her lovely Spanish students are 7th and 8th graders. She holds two degrees from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, which is the second highest ranked university in South America in English Literature, Linguistics, and Education. Ms. Correa previously taught English for four years at the high school level in a Chilean Montessori School. She has worked since she was 16. She has experience working with elementary, middle, and high school students as well as adult business learners. She used to own a business coordinating economic and medical conferences in Chile. She has also traveled the world as a flight attendant. In her free time she enjoys traveling, reading, yoga, swimming, and spending time with friends. All of these are gifts for her soul.

She considers reading one of the most important ways to learn about different subjects at your own pace. Even though she is a slow reader, she loves to explore and to travel to amazing worlds through imagination and poetry. She is interested in knowing how students are able to build their own associations and map concepts in their minds. She loves to learn new things, especially if those things will be useful for her students or for her own life.
Ms. Correa is currently getting her Masters in Educational Leadership from Virginia Commonwealth University.