Ronald Mauricio Sandoval was born in San Luis, Jilotepeque Guatemala. He grew up in Guatemala and El Salvador during its Civil War. After high school, he served a 25 month mission in the mountainous region of Momostenango Guatemala where he learned to speak Quiché. After his mission, He completed his undergraduate work in education at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Early in his career in Guatemala he was a retail salesman and manager. He moved to the United States in 1997 where his first job was washing the machine that made bread at a little convenience shop in the O'hare Airport. A diligent study of English, hard work and the right people in his path led him from that job to being a truck driver, an ELL teacher, assistant principal, principal and director of language programs in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. He currently continues to have the opportunity to serve as a trainer, speaker and presenter at the national level in the area of ​​bilingual education and especially in the development of dual language education programs. He also had the opportunity to work as the founding principle of a Bilingual School in Kuwait. He earned his masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. He also attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison to complete his Wisconsin school principal & leadership licensing. Through his connections with the University of Wisconsin, the Department of Public Instruction, and network throughout the nation he was a part of the WI Seal of Biliteracy work group that would lead to Wisconsin’s adoption of the Seal of Biliteracy. At the state level in Oklahoma, he was influential in broadening the Oklahoma State Board of Education’s scope for international educator hiring For over 20 years, Mr. Sandoval has empowered adults and children, particularly English Learners, by helping them acquire English and develop professional skills, and/or learn content through language acquisition programs and services. His data-based design of Dual Language programs has helped English Learners acquire English at faster rates than the US national average, promoted cultural unity, and closed achievement gaps. Furthermore, English proficient students, as well as English learners, have had the opportunity of becoming fully bilingual and bi-literate through instruction in English and Spanish. He currently works for the Western Heights School District where he is building the new Dual Language Program. When he is not helping students become bilingual, bicultural and biliterate, he can be seen riding bikes with his family, serving in his church, reading, streaming movies, resurrecting houseplants or working in his bonsai trees.