With an undergraduate degree in Education from UMass, Joe pursued further studies at the renowned Summer language program at Middlebury College, VT, where he graduated with a Master’s Degree in Spanish. He is also a past recipient of the Spanish Embassy scholarship award for studies in Salamanca, Spain. He is fluent in both Spanish and Italian with a reading knowledge of French and Portuguese. Joe is proud to say that he has over 30 years of experience in the foreign language classroom and looks forward to encouraging every student to broaden their horizons in their pursuit of speaking a foreign language.