our team of teachers

and the directors:

Kathy Reynaud-Trujillo

Director of European School DR

  • Degree from Stendhal University and from the University Institute of the Formation of School teachers in Grenoble, France (CAPES)
  • Certified Teacher from the National French Education 
  • Masters in Languages, Literature, and Foreign Civilizations

But who is Kathy Reynaud-Trujillo ? She is a « francesita », a polyglot and lover of languages, who can’t resist a good dinner with friends, a great book, a Saturday at the beach, or a fun salsa. She is constantly seeking to help, and to keep questioning herself in order to move further ahead, to learn, and to constantly grow as a person. 

She started to work as a Spanish teacher in Vendée and then in Paris, but the grey skies pushed her to change her life, and in 2010 she began her adventure in the Dominican Republic, where she began as a CNED/French teacher with a French family in Cabarete. 

She then worked as a teacher at the DREAM Project for more than 3 years, going from developing the library to coordinating education programs, including teaching reading, writing, and literature to children and adolescents. 

She then rejoined her mother’s family in Portugal, where she worked as a language teacher and a translator and interpretor at the Setubal Court, near Lisbon. 

Later, she rejoined the French National Education program for three years, but always had one foot in the Dominican Republic, her second home. 

In 2020, Kathy returned to Cabarete, with her husband Isaac Trujillo (Director of Cabarete Language Institute) and her son Sáori. Seeing the absence of a French school in the region, they decided that it was time to respond to the demand of French families and they created a bilingual elementary school allowing for 100% French, Spanish and English education with native speaking teachers, degrees, and a love for learning. And so begins the European School DR!

Isaac Trujillo escobar

Director of European School DR 

  • Master in Teaching English as a Second Language from University Of Los Andes, Venezuela.

  • Postgraduate Diploma in International Business Management from Karel De Grote Hoogeschool, Belgium.

  • Masters in Ibero-American Studies from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

  • PhD in Human Sciences (two years) from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

    Isaac has taught Spanish, English and Italian as a second language for businessmen and sales representatives and Hispanic Culture and Linguistics at the University Of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy during his PhD studies. 

    In 2014 he moved to the Dominican Republic where he was hired as Academic Director in Cabarete Language Institute where six months later becomes partner and business manager, in 2017 Isaac goes back to Europe where he taught Spanish in middle school for the Public National Education in France. While managing CLI remotely Isaac also took charge as project manager for a digital marketing agency in Italy, his task: Develop a sales team remotely.

    This experience led to later develop his own agency offering marketing solutions to local business.

    In January 2020 he decides to come back to Cabarete with his family to set up together with his wife the European School DR. He is passionate about politics (only as a subject of study!) languages, and cultures.