Sube was developed by Agnes Chavez, a teacher, artist and mother. She had a
bachelors degree in Art, and over 10 years experience teaching art and
Spanish when she started developing the Sube curriculum. Inspired by her son
when he was 2, she started an afterschool program in her neighborhood of
Taos, New Mexico with the idea that children need to be taught in a playful
and multisensory way in order to get them motivated to want to learn
Spanish. The program was so successful after a year that she was hired at a
private school to be the spanish teacher for PK -5th grade. It was here that
she decided there was nothing else like this on the market and decided to
organize the activities and the methodology into a curriculum for schools.
After a few years she started placing the curriculum in public schools and
getting feedback from teachers on what worked, further adapting the
curriculum for different classroom environments. In 2004 she hired a TESOL
certified specialist to analyze the curriculum, identify and fill any
learning gaps to assure it met the TESOL and NM state standards. In 2006 the
ESL curriculum was studied by a NYC teacher and curriculum developer to
create NYSELAT based unit tests, further enhancing the Sube curriculum in
our latest version 3.1. This version was also adapted and enhanced to meet
Asian standards with additional activities, a curriculum map and new
topics.The Sube curriculum is constantly being upgraded by experts in the
field to assure the most up to date, research-based and field tested system
available to teachers.