Our Story
Built, class by class, by someone who loves doing it.
World Voices didn’t start as a business. I was a teacher in Mexico before we moved to San Diego, and I couldn’t imagine not teaching once we got here. A group of my Latina mom friends and I started a little summer camp one July because we wanted our own kids to have something meaningful, something in Spanish, something that felt like home. It grew. Other families asked in. A mom from the camp eventually offered me a Spanish-program license she couldn’t run, and I said yes. Everything since then has come from that same starting point: moms wanting more for our kids, and a teacher who couldn’t stop teaching.
Twenty-plus years later, I still teach the way I always have. Kids learn by listening first (the sounds of a language before the rules of it), and then by doing. Every kid is different. Every group is different. Every school is different. So every class gets built around the kids in front of me, not the other way around. My friends call me the Kid Whisperer. I’ll take it.
Martha Sheridan, founder