Tierra Educational Center Spanish Classes

5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213

map5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213

About

Tierra Educational Center Spanish Classes offers small group and private Spanish classes, including courses such as Conversational Spanish, Conversational Spanish 1, 2, and 3, and the Short Story Seminar: Mar de Historias. The program also hosts holiday celebrations and conversation nights, and it offers on-site Spanish classes and language courses for businesses and organizations.

• Schedule: Office hours are Monday and Tuesday 12–6pm, Wednesday and Thursday 11am–5pm, and Friday 10am–4pm; the Mid-Spring Term starts the week of May 4, with an early bird registration deadline of Monday, April 20.

Tierra Educational Center Spanish Classes is a family-owned language school that opened in May 2009 and has developed into an educational and cultural center. The program offers Spanish classes for adults and families, with small group and private options for adults and children of all levels, from absolute beginner to advanced, at affordable rates. The center states that it focuses on warm human interaction in teaching and that its values include diversity, respect, multiculturalism, peace, and conservation, with the objective of helping people build bridges across cultural and linguistic barriers at home and abroad. The leadership team includes Director Norberto T. Medina, Academic Director Elyse S. Medina, Administrative Assistant Lori Sanchez, and Spanish instructors Alexa Gaynor, Erin Hanson, Colleen Holbrook, Aizpea Isasi, Isabel López, Cynthia Menchaca Arizpe, and Cecilia Rodríguez. The program describes its instructors as experienced and enthusiastic and notes that it uses dynamic methodologies, a well-structured, original and specially designed curriculum, and highly organized administration, along with personalized and attentive care for students and clients. The center also notes that it specializes in designing and implementing on-site language courses for businesses and organizations in a variety of fields and that it builds community by offering an open and friendly classroom environment along with holiday celebrations and conversation nights open to the public.

Last updated April 14, 2026.

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