Education Initiatives

 Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers

The Summer Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers (SSAST) have been offered annually since 1991, moving to a different site every two years as a way of presenting as many faces as possible of the Spanish-speaking world to educators and students of Spanish. Previous locations have included Cuernavaca, Mexico (1991 and 1992); Quito, Ecuador (1993 and 1994); San José, Costa Rica (1995 and 1996); Valencia, Spain (1997 and 1998); Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (1999 and 2000); Santiago, Chile (2001 and 2002); Asunción, Paraguay (2003 and 2004); Antigua, Guatemala (2005 and 2006); Cochabamba, Bolivia (2007 and 2008); Granada, Nicaragua (2009 and 2010); Córdoba, Argentina (2011 and 2012); Lima, Peru (2013 and 2014), and Barranquilla, Colombia (2015 and 2016).