Committee Lova

Co-founder of LÓVA, creator of the LÓVA concept, elementary teacher in Maryland public school, USA, with 34 years of experience using the arts as a vehicle to integrate curricular content and project work. Mary Ruth is a passionate advocate of authentic learning, that seeks to incorporate real-world experiences as a central element of the academic climate of the classroom. In 2006, Mary Ruth received a Fulbright scholarship to go to Spain to the Teatro Real, where he planted a seed in the creation of the LÓVA Carries Project 15 years in training education professionals from all over Spain with this concept.

Ana is music teacher at the ICC San Sadurniño (A Coruña). Since 2013, with some of his classmates, participates in the project Lova uninterruptedly, why “I am excited and I think it is an opportunity and a unique experience for students, teachers and the entire school community”.

Olga is a Physical Education teacher and graduated in Primary Education. Carry 15 years applying LÓVA at the CEIP Joaquín Costa, Madrid. Conduct LÓVA training courses and sessions with teachers from different communities. She is secretary of the LÓVA Association and member of the Pedagogical Committee since it was formed.

Vicente is a Primary teacher at the CEIP León Felipe de Móstoles, enthusiastic participant in the Lova project since its inception in 2007. Along the initial group of teachers Lova, He was formed in Washington and stood one of the first three operas with 5th grade students during the course 2007-08.

Ana is a professor of Language and Literature at the IES Galileo Galilei (Alcorcon, Madrid). Since 2022 She participates as a LÓVA teacher in her center and has created four opera companies with high school students. Considers that LÓVA is a transformative project and very necessary for a school with a soul to exist..

Fernando is a secondary school Language and Literature teacher.. From a very young age he has been linked to the artistic and entertainment world of theater, first at the Popular School of Alcorcón and then as a storyteller. He studied German Philology, traveled, He worked as a guide and when he got tired he began his teaching career. Since his first years as a teacher he has directed youth theater groups and is now on his fourth love project.. Thanks to LÓVA his way of understanding teaching has changed radically. Think that LÓVA, that came into your life as an unexpected gift, It has been the best thing that has happened to him as a teacher.

Manuel Cordeiro and Alberto Costas are teachers of Primary Education at the CPR Plurilingüe Colexio Eduardo Pondal de Cangas, where they facilitate their sixth LÓVA company uninterruptedly. With a solid background in educational innovation, both have made this project the axis of their teaching practice. for them, LÓVA not only transformed her way of understanding education, but also to understand life. “Developing LÓVA is a natural step in our commitment to a more humane school, creative and exciting”.

Mamen Gallego is a Music teacher at the CEIP Santa Rosa de Lima in El Palmar, in Murcia. He trained at the Lóva Project in 2019 and since then he has been facilitating companies at his school, together with their fellow tutors. The project has been consolidated in the center and is part of the dialogic learning model that they carry out. She is convinced that only through dialogue and respect can coexistence and society be improved.. And that's what LÓVA is.

Secondary School Music Professor, composer and director. Committed to an artistic education that excites, transforms and leaves a mark on the students. Promotes networks and educational projects that connect teachers and students through shared music and demands a dignified musical education for all.. mother of two children.

Language and Literature Teacher in Murcia. Since always, performing arts have been my passion, until it became the pillar of my teaching practice. Upon learning about the LÓVA Project in 2019, there was a crush. I believe in its overwhelming power to motivate and accompany the process of learning and acquiring moral and civic values.; a true pedagogical tool full of the future.

Rut is a music teacher at the CEIP Hermanos Pinzón, in Madrid, where the LÓVA project develops. Trained in Theater and Music, since he learned about the project in the year 2010, dream of carrying it out, because it integrates everything that is considered essential for the development of the child: until (in all its facets), autonomy, cooperation, emotional development, listen, tolerance and respect for others… Since his training at LÓVA in the year 2020, they are already 8 companies that have been formed in “The Finch”

IN MEMORIAL

Pedro pushed, imagined and made all this grow. Without their ability to believe that boys and girls deserved the best education, LÓVA would not have had the projection and quality that it has. With the best sense of humor and a deep respect for the work of teachers, he leaves us an immense legacy. Jazz pianist, music teacher and educational projects manager, he studied Contemporary Improvisation with Ran Blake in New England Conservatory. He was an educational advisor of the Royal Theater, director of the Municipal School of Music in Talavera de la Reina, coordinator of the Master in Performing Arts Practices and Visual Culture and professor at schools, conservatories and training courses. You can read his articles on education in the magazine Scherzo or El Diario de la Educación among others.

Miguel is elementary teacher. It was one of the first teachers in the classroom applied Lova. In addition to making the project without interruption since the course 2007-08, He has retired and has continued taking it to different contexts such as IEPC Jaime Vera, Madrid Penitentiary Center II. IES José Saramago of Majadahonda or group of teachers inLÓVAdores. further, Miguel makes numerous visits to centers, lectures or courses in different parts of Spain.

Benja is master of music education in the CEIP Juan Esteve de Albal (Valencia) and he has been linked to theater and dance from his early years as a teacher. He met in the course Lova 2014-2015 and in his own words- "He was fascinated by the project". Since then, is done with two companies for ongoing uninterruptedly with students in 6th grade and families. At present, is former teacher in Valencia and track companies that perform the Lova project seminar format.

Isabel School Teacher of San Sebastian in Pallaresos, Tarragona, degree in geography and history though artistic training without any form fervent admirer art . He met Lova Year 2010 and since then he has staged several children's operas. He claims that since he met the project changed their teaching and there have been a before and after. He has implemented in his daily instruction many of the educational aspects of LÓVA that have become indispensable.

Natalia is entitled in Musicology and Musical Pedagogy. Diploma in Education. It is a teacher by profession and vocation, for he has been saying it will be a music teacher from 3 years, as you have. He has worked at all levels of education, from children 3 añitos to adults. In 2002 He worked in Secondary, remaining 10 years in the center, where the Lova project first developed. At present, He develops its work in a primary school which applies the methodology in their classes Lova. It is considered a curious person, restless and constant, Lova able to reach six years after seeing Michael in a talk and say: "That's what I want to do". She loves to learn new things and listen to anyone who can teach.