Hi! As a teacher (and artist), my role is to be constructive, honest, and helpful on our journey together. I want you to connect with your own instrument in a way that is practical, truthful, and impactful. I'm a multiple-award winning professional actor based in Los Angeles, working in TV, film, and theatre, with additional produced experience as a playwright, screenwriter, and director for the stage and screen, and I carry my entire artistic life into my conversations with my students, young and old.

I enjoy taking my students from the known, their own language, to the unknown, the target language, Spanish. I am also a Real Estate Broker, and enjoy taking a renter or first time buyer giving him/her the key to enter his own home.

My name is Patricia Hickok and I am the director of our new school location in Long Beach. I am a graduate of Cal State University Long Beach and have a bachelors degree in Liberal Studies/Psychology. I was a preschool teacher and taught ESL (English as a Second Language) at Purche Elementary in Gardena. I am fluent in Spanish. My mother was born and raised in Peru where she was a teacher and studied English. She came to the United States and taught Spanish. When she married my father, they sent for my grandmother. She cared for my brother and I since birth which is very common in the Latin culture. Our Abuelita did not speak English so Spani...