A scanned photo of two young children smiling and hugging each other.

Sarah (left) and her youngest sister, Jenna (right) back in the awesome 1980s.

A photo of two adults smiling in front of a landscape of mountains.

Sarah (left) and her sister, Alyssa Jean (right), in La Antigua, Guatemala.

 

Sarah Bernadette Ottow

Confianza Founder + Director of Professional Learning

I have had the opportunity to work with Sarah as we launched the ENLACE program. She has been an incredible support and coach during our first year of existence as a program and my first year as a school leader...[with] invaluable feedback on classroom instruction, professional development, student support structures, etc. Her feedback has helped us prioritize areas of growth in our teacher coaching and PD cycles. She has also just been an incredible sounding board and source of support.
— Allison Balter, Former ENLACE Newcomer Academy Program Director
 

The Power of Language

Sarah values how special language is from other cultures and how we can learn so much from others outside of our own experiences. Here, a Saudi Scholar from Kansas State University’s Khabrat Program, shows Sarah how her name and Confianza is written and spoken in Arabic.

A photo of a man writing on a whiteboard in Arabic