WHO WE ARE

ABOUT US

Charlotte Mason Español was founded by Jo Perez-Ray in 2019 with the goal to help promote the Charlotte Mason method of education among families and educators with Spanish heritage in the Americas, Spain, and the world, in a way that is culturally relevant and faithful to Charlotte Mason’s principles.

Our objectives:

  • To translate into Spanish the six-volume, “Home Education” Series by Charlotte Mason, available for free online.
  • To provide a virtual, Spanish-speaking Charlotte Mason educational community that aligns itself as closely as possible to Charlotte Mason’s writings.
  • To promote and share culturally relevant educational resources and initiatives for the growth of Spanish-speaking Charlotte Mason educators.

OUR ORIGIN

  • Charlotte Mason Español was born out of the inspiration drawn from Charlotte Mason’s writings–Jo Pérez Ray was raising her babies in the US when she decided her sister and friends in Chile needed to read these books in Spanish. Urgently!
  • With that vision in mind, Jo met María Elena Ortiz of A Living Education en español–thanks to the Charlotte Mason curriculum AmblesideOnline–and both started an “official” translation of Charlotte Mason’s “Home Education” in 2019.
  • In order to share this book more widely, Jo thought it would be fun to have a community of Spanish-speaking Charlotte Mason Educators–exactly before Covid hit! Talk about God’s timing! Hundreds of families joined from Latin America, the United States, Spain and other parts of the world.
  • The translation project and permanent conversations online were carried out during the pandemic, helping us stay sane. We’ve been reaching Spanish-speaking educators all over the globe, permanently developing local and virtual initiatives.
  • Many individuals who started with us have now gone to create their own Charlotte Mason initiatives which is spreading this education even farther.
  • Thanks to the many volunteers in the community of Educators, we are now working on the first community translation of the Charlotte Mason’s Home Education Series, which is being made gradually available online, for free.
  • Given that many of the educators in our community are located in the United States, Jo founded the Hispanic Charlotte Mason Initiative in late 2023 to provide support for homeschooling families and schools in the United States whose main language is English. This Anglo-Hispanic approach to the United States would eventually include indigenous peoples, and it would extend to all of the Americas so a name change was necessary. That is how Charlotte Mason for the Americas came to be.
  • Stay tuned! God is still writing this story.

Video clip recorded for the Charlotte Mason Conference in 2022.

“Once Intellect admits us into the realms of History, we live in a great and stirring world, full of entertainment and sometimes of regret; and at last we begin to understand that we, too, are making History, and that we are all part of the whole; that the people who went before us were all very like ourselves, or else we should not be able to understand them. […] We see that we, too, live in a great age and a great country, in which there is plenty of room for heroes; and if these should be heroes in a quiet way, whom the world never hears of, that does not make much real difference.”

Charlotte Mason

FIND SUPPORT

Comunidad Educadores Charlotte Mason Iberoamérica

Comunidad Educadores Charlotte Mason Iberoamérica is a virtual community of Spanish-speaking educators on Facebook. Its goal is to promote and exchange information about the Charlotte Mason educational philosophy in Latin America, the United States, Spain, and the world.

Charlotte Mason for the Americas is our English-speaking initiative that aims to provide support in English & Spanish for schools and homeschooling families in the United States who wish to include a Hispanic (Spanish and Latino) identity in their educational programs.

Charlotte Mason for the Americas

This is our English-speaking initiative to support homeschooling families and schools in the United States who desire to include Hispanic cultural, literary, or historical studies in their educational programs.

Our mission is to help schools or homeschooling families include, recover and safeguard the rich Anglo, Hispanic and Indigenous history of the United States in their school programs, from pre-Columbus days until today, both in English and Spanish.

Knowing who we are—our origins and our vision for the future. It all plays a key role when creating an educational program that recovers or safeguards our common Hispanic—Spanish or Native American—history and identity in the United States of America.

We're walking an uncharted path when applying Hispanic parameters to our CM educational programs in the United States. But with your input and our research, we con do the jump from the Victorian era at the height of the British Empire to our 21st century Spanish-speaking/bilingual homes and schools!

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For now, we gather monetary funding under a Christian non-profit ministry called Messiah Missions. Your financial support is greatly appreciated! You may send an offering via Zeffy. Please earmark it for “Education.” You may buy books we recommend by clicking on the affiliate links on Amazon at no extra cost. Thank you, and may our God richly bless you!