Research Update – First Visit to Tunja!

Last week I left Abbey in Bogotá, traveled a few hours away to the city of Tunja, and did my first observations at a school that uses the Escuela Nueva model. After a month of reading and preparing, I was excited to finally be entering a school. That’s what I came here to do! Of course, I was also feeling really nervous. I’ve visited around two dozen schools in the US, mostly out of pure curiosity and usually on my own. But this time everything would be in Spanish! And we are still in the middle of a pandemic.