Intern Program

For fifteen years, Apoyemos has worked with Amity Institute to  bring native Spanish speaking interns to support our children and teachers in the classrooms.  Beginning with three interns at Ainsworth Elementary, Apoyemos expanded to also provide interns at West Sylvan and Lincoln.  For the 2025-2026 school year, we have two interns at Ainsworth from Colombia and El Salvador and two at West Sylvan from Spain. For 2026-2027, our goal is return to hosting four interns at Ainsworth and two at West Sylvan.

Our interns are all training to become teachers in their home country and offer cultural exchange, classroom assistance, and  the native language skills that help our children with spelling, pronunciation and grammar and really embracing the culture and language.

Each intern lives with a host family for either 1/2 of the year, or a full year, September to June. Hosting an intern is a wonderful way to bring cultural exchange to your home, and reinforce language learning for the whole family. To find out about hosting an intern,  contact our Intern Coordinators, Mitzi Raaf & Christina Friedle, at 4hostfamilies@gmail.com.

Watch our video below to see and hear our teachers and interns at work, talking about the program beginnings and expansion over the years. And hear directly from immersion students how 2022/23 interns, Maria and Carlos from Spain and El Salvador, helped them in class with improving their Spanish and cultural understanding.