Spanish for Relationship-Building

You know the moment: A Spanish-speaking family walks up to your desk. A student looks up at you needing something. You reach for your phone, or look around for a bilingual colleague, or do your best and hope.

The interaction happens, but the warmth, and the feeling of I see you, you are safe here, you are loved — doesn't always make it through.

You care deeply, but you're missing the language.

Not fluency. Or years of study. Or a perfectly rolled "r".

Just hyper practical Spanish for your environment at school to say: I'm trying, because your language, your culture, and your whole self matter. You belong here.

That's precisely what Spanish for Relationship-Building is designed for.

What Spanish for Relationship-Building Is and Isn't

This is not a language class that starts with verb conjugations and works its way up to conversations that you maybe, might, possibly some day, when you have enough time, or have the chance to travel ... have with another real live person.

This is six weeks of the Spanish that actually comes up in your building: at dismissal, at pickup, at the front desk, during conferences, in the hallway, in the clinic, on the bus. Classes are taught by an educator who has been in every one of those moments herself ... on the border as well as in her Midwestern hometown.

Every 90-minute session combines school-specific vocabulary, pronunciation practice, and realistic school scenarios, with differentiated support so every participant is pushed to their next level — whether you've never said a word of Spanish in your life or you took four years of it in high school and remember some of it.

Between sessions, you have access to optional weekly challenges, a text hotline for real-time language coaching, and class recordings so you can revisit anything you want to practice again.

NEW: Starting this fall, every participant also gets a free semester in the Spanish for Belonging-Building Community — an ongoing space where you can ask real-time questions as they come up in your school day and receive personalized micro-lesson responses, access a growing library of Spanish video lessons, engage in ongoing learning and practice long after the six weeks are over.

All learning is virtual. Physical materials — including tea and cookies — are shipped to you upon enrollment.

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By the end of the six weeks, you will be able to ...

Pronounce Spanish words and Spanish heritage names correctly and confidently
Welcome students and families into your space — classroom, office, clinic, bus — warmly and graciously, in Spanish
Introduce yourself by name and role
Ask students and families how they are
Give compliments and words of encouragement to students, and share them with caregivers in conversation and in written notes home
Say goodbye warmly across a variety of situations — see you tomorrow, have a nice weekend, feel better soon
Invite families to special events and communicate the day, date, and time
Ask simple questions and make simple statements
Listen for key words so you can follow along even when you don't catch everything
Respond productively and professionally when you don't understand — without freezing, without grabbing your phone
Use school-appropriate terms of endearment with students
Speak Spanish with a real person every single day

This course is for you if you work in a school — in any role.

Teachers. Secretaries. School nurses. Bus drivers. Principals. Instructional coaches. Registrars. Counselors. Assistant superintendents. Substitutes.
If you interact with Spanish-speaking students or families — even occasionally, even briefly — this course will change those interactions.

What Educators Are Saying:

"I was talking to one of my students in Spanish practicing new ways to greet them and she said, 'Mrs. Noseff, you are talking to me in my language. You are doing so good. Thank you!!!!'"
— Deanna N., Kindergarten Teacher, St. Louis, MO

"Your class gave me the courage to advocate for our Spanish parents recently in our department. We are now implementing Spanish language phone calls when our buses are significantly delayed — before, only English was sent out."
— George C., Bus Driver, Illinois (pseudonym at his request)

Hear directly from past participants:

"The vocabulary shared was immediately applicable to our work. This course has opened more layers of communication with our families."
— Evelyn G., Director of Professional Learning

"It does create more vulnerability and a culture of belonging."
— Sierra C., Assistant Principal, St. Louis, MO

"In six weeks, I gained more proficiency in Spanish than I anticipated."
— Becca R., ELL Teacher, St. Louis, MO

Fall 2026 Enrollment

Public sessions (open to individuals) begin September 16th — Mexican Independence Day, and the opening of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Hanging a flag is a gesture. Learning to welcome a family, compliment a student, or share a school event, is a relationship.
Wednesdays, September 16 through October 21
Two time options:
🕑 2:00–3:30pm Central — for administrators and anyone with daytime coverage
🕓 4:30–6:00pm Central — for instructional staff after the school day or anyone who prefers it

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Investment

Together, Language offers three ways to get the Spanish support your students and families deserve.

Public Course + Community (most popular)
Spanish for Relationship-Building
Six weeks of live instruction, school-specific vocabulary, differentiated practice, and real human feedback — plus a free semester in the Spanish for Belonging-Building community included at no additional cost.

$595 per person
(At full enrollment of 26 participants, a private district series is $269/person — but the public series is the most flexible and accessible option for individuals and small groups.)

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Paying out of pocket without access to PD funds? A limited number of partial scholarships are available. [Apply here.]

Community Only
Spanish for Belonging-Building Community
Already have some Spanish and want ongoing support, practice, and community?

Community Opens Wednesday, September 30

$300 per person per quarter | $480 per person for two quarters (six months)

Access to personalized micro-lessons, a growing Spanish video library, cultural exposure programming, and real-time support for in-the-moment school situations.

Doors to the community open Thursday, August 1, 2026. Membership is limited. Seats are available until full. Payment today saves your seat.

SAVE MY SEAT IN THE COMMUNITY

Private District Series
Spanish for Relationship-Building
Exclusively for one district's employees. Dates and times scheduled in partnership with your district. Accommodates up to 26 participants.

Best for districts enrolling 12 or more employees.

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Not sure which option is right for you?

[Schedule a free conversation →] and we'll figure it out together. I can also help you navigate how to access PD funds to cover the cost — there are more pathways than most people realize.

Satisfaction Guarantee

If you attend the first two lessons and do not feel the course is a good fit, you can choose between a full refund or four private lessons at no additional cost. I want this to work for you.

Also ... keep the tea and cookies. ;-)

Common Concerns

I've never taken Spanish before / I was terrible at Spanish in school.
This course is designed for all levels — from complete beginners to people who took years of Spanish and remember almost none of it. Every session includes differentiated practice so you're pushed to your next level, not your neighbor's. Past students with zero Spanish background have left six weeks later using it with real students and families.
I don't have time for homework.
There is no homework. There are optional weekly challenges designed to fit into your actual school day — practice that happens in the hallway, at pickup, in the office. If you can show up to class, you can build the skills you need.
What if I miss a class?
All sessions are recorded. If you already know you'll miss more than two classes, I'd encourage you to wait for a future offering — but one or two absences won't derail your progress.
What if a parent starts speaking rapid Spanish and I can't keep up?
We practice this directly. You'll learn how to listen for key words, how to let a family know you're learning, how to ask them to slow down, and how to get help when you need it — all in a way that feels warm and professional rather than awkward.
I'm worried about making mistakes in front of families.
We address this head-on. Making mistakes in front of students and families is not the risk you think it is — it's actually one of the most powerful belonging signals you can send. When you try, they notice. When you're imperfect and keep trying anyway, they see themselves in you.

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About Anne

Anne Truran founded Together, Language in 2018 after eleven years of working in and alongside schools as a teacher and instructional leader. She began her career teaching all content areas of first grade in Spanish to native Spanish speakers on the southern border, later taught Spanish immersion and bilingual intervention, and has spent years supporting multilingual family engagement across the Midwest and beyond.

Anne's relationship with Spanish is not merely academic. She raises her two sons bilingually in Spanish, has lived for extended periods in Latin America, and has spent 23 years in relationship with Spanish-speaking communities. When she created Spanish for Relationship-Building, she reflected on the gaps that years of formal Spanish study had still left her with — the school-specific vocabulary, the real-scenario practice, the confidence to actually use it when a family was standing right in front of her.

She built this course so you don't have to figure that out the hard way.

Spanish for Relationship-Building exists to let more educators in.

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