María Teresa Manteo holds a degree as Profesora de Inglés para la Escuela Primaria y Secundaria, Lenguas Vivas, with an “Adscripción a Literatura Inglesa”.  She has obtained a Further Professional Studies Certificate in Education Management from the University of Bristol, UK as well as a Practitioner’s Certificate in Neurolinguistic Programming Applied to Education. She trains teachers in holistic methods in the weaving of reading, writing and the arts, and runs Support Learning Educational Programme in Touch with the Author Workshops for children and teens.

María Teresa seeks innovative pathways to strengthen children’s personal connection with books. She participated in the 2022 Virtual Summer Institute for Educators, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. She is also happy to have been part of: the 2019 Summer Institute on Children’s Literature, University of Simmons, Boston; the 2018 American Art Therapy Congress, Miami; 2017 Connecting Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and in the 2016 ILA Conference, Boston, USA.

Additionally, she completed her two-year course in Formación en Pensamiento Junguiano, Autoconocimiento y Vincularidad – Fundación Vínculo. She continues online with her studies at the Jungian Centre for the Spiritual Sciences, Vermont, USA. She’s a lifelong researcher into The Arts and Education, and a committed practitioner of Literature in the Arts strategies.

She has been selected by the International Literacy Association, USA to serve on The Notable Books for a Global Society Award Committee for 2022-24. This committee explores recently published Children’s Literature that promotes diversity, understanding and peace-making across cultures, to finally select 25 distinguished books to be awarded every year. Most recently María Teresa has also been invited to serve on the ILA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Awards.