Nuria Serrano, Spanish Instructor
Nuria was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, where she lived for 29 years. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from the University of Barcelona, and her mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan. She worked as an government adviser while also keeping up her passion of teaching children, which she began when she was eighteen. In 2007 Nuria moved to San Diego with her husband, who is working as an Associate Researcher at The Scripps Research Institute.  In their free time they do outdoor activities such as hiking, and they love visiting new cities and cultures whenever possible. They really enjoy all the possibilities that San Diego offers them, and they feel that San Diego is their new home. Nuria considers that one of the most exciting parts of teaching is not only that the children learn a second language, but also that they start appreciating that there exist other cultures beyond their known world.

Marcela Pissinis, Spanish Instructor
Marcela is from Rosario, Argentina, where she studied English starting in childhood, and where she got her Teaching and Translating degree from National University of Rosario. After working as a teacher in kindergarten, elementary and middle schools for about ten years, her passion for teaching children and practicing her English led her to enroll in a teaching exchange program in the U.S. She taught in a Spanish immersion program in northern California and got a Teaching Certificate from U.C. Berkeley Extension. A few years later, she moved to San Diego, where she got another Teaching Certificate from National University and also a Business Degree. Apart from interacting with and teaching children, Marcela enjoys playing volleyball and doing many other activities that keep her active. She also loves learning new languages and about other cultures; she speaks some Italian and Portuguese, and she’s traveled to many countries and would love to keep traveling. But she has a lot of friends in San Diego, and she would like to spend the rest of her life here.

Anne-France Moore, French Instructor
Anne-France is a native of the French-speaking region of Belgium.  She was born and raised in Lasne, a town not far from Brussels.  Traveling with her parents around the world, Anne-France found herself in the US many times.  At the age of 18, she decided to come to the US as an exchange student at Huntington Beach.  It was after this that she decided that California was going to be her home.  Upon finishing her degree in Belgium, Anne-France traveled to San Diego to continue her studies, where she also met her husband and started a family.  Her oldest child is starting to speak French and takes various classes at Wonders.  Anne-France loves to travel and immerse herself in other cultures, from Africa to Bali.  She is also fluent in Dutch (Flemish). She loves to interact with children and instructing her native languages. She feels the best way for children to learn a language is to make the experience fun and to provide lots of interactive activities that the children will want to remember.

Isabelle Senecal, French Instructor
Isabelle was born in Dijon, France of Portuguese parents and lived there for her first 25 years. She considers herself bilingual in both French and Portuguese fluently. She decided to go on an adventure in 2000 by traveling to Portugal, where she completed a Bachelor's Degree in Translation at the University of Algarve. In 2005, she went to San Diego for another adventure where, after being immersed in the American culture for about a year, she got married. She worked with preschoolers for a French school located in San Diego for three years before joining Wonders. She has always loved to be with children, but her teaching experiences created a brand new vision on what she wants to accomplish: make children laugh and be happy, and watch them grow. Isabelle loves to laugh, play, read and travel, especially back to France, Portugal and Spain. 

Grace Zhang, Mandarin Instructor
Grace grew up in mainland China. She completed her undergraduate studies in Northern China with a double major in Education and Information Systems, and she earned her Master's degree with honors from Depaul University in Chicago. Grace has many years' experience teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language to toddlers through adults. She absolutely loves teaching and especially enjoys working with children! She's inspired seeing them absorb knowledge so quickly while they laugh and play, and she's proud of seeing many smiling faces. She puts all her effort into helping her students learn language in a fun environment. The most rewarding part of her job is when former students come back and tell her how much they learned while they were in her class. In her free time, she reads, sings, dances, and directs children's plays and dances for Chinese festivals and holidays. Grace and her husband have a precious little girl. Her daughter speaks Mandarin and English fluently and is having fun in Spanish classes at Wonders!