Dominico-Americano School Board, sub committee of the Board of Trustee’s (Link to Board of Trustee’s)
School Board is composed of the following seven (7) members:
President of the Board of Trustees = President of the School Board
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees = Treasurer of the School Board
Secretary of the Board of Trustees = Secretary of the School Board
President of the Academic Committee = Vice-President of the School Board
United States Embassy Representative
ICDA Community Representative
Parent Representative = Elected President/Coordinator of the Parents’ Committee

Non-Voting Members (ex-oficio) are
Executive Director ICDA –
Academic Director ICDA –
School Director CDA

School Director
Alba Mercedes Salterio, MA Ed

Ms. Alba Salterio was born in Ancon, Canal Zone in the Republic of Panama. She married and moved to the Dominican Republic in 1978, is the mother of three teenagers, Fausto, Alba and John Michael Cáceres, and after her divorced remained in the beautiful Santo Domingo city. She graduated from Balboa High School, Canal Zone College with a BSMT and Western Carolina University with a Master of Arts in Education. She has also taken graduate work with Buffalo State University and Alabama University.

The teaching career has been her call for more than twenty years. She has taught second grade, junior high and high school math and science and has been a Science Department Head, Curriculum Coordinator and High School Principal. This last position she held for more than eight years, in an overseas American school. She has serve on several steering self study committees for SACS accreditation including been the chair. In August 1999, Ms. Salterio became the Dominico-Americano School Director and under her direction, the school finalized their SACS accreditation process. She occasionally gives of her busy schedule and teaches in the University of the Dominico-Americano, education which include the guidance for the teacher practicum

You may contact her at asalterio@hotmail.com or at
Her office phone number is (809)-535-0665 Ext.245 or 244

Functions: The School Director is the instructional leader (1-12), responsible for grades 1-12 with the school board, for the communication and implementation of school board policy, the development of the school-wide curriculum thereby promoting academic excellence as the primary focus of the school and the communication with the school community. She implements the practices and procedures for school operation, including sound fiscal management of the school, ensuring safety and security of students and staff and overseeing the compliance with the standards set by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to ensure accredited status for the school.

Elementary Principal
Viriginia Soliman, MA ED

Virginia Soliman was born in Santo Domingo, mother of three and a member of the ICDA staff; Pre-school Teacher in 1990 and School Psychologist in 2001.  After an absence of five years, she returned to assume the Elementary Principal position, in 2006. She has a Masters in Education from Framingham University in Massachusetts and has been in the field of education for many years.

Functions: Principal will be in charge of students, classrooms, educational program, and teaching staff of the 1st through 5th grades and co-curricular teachers of these grades.

She can be reached at (809) 535-0665, extensions 250 & 286. You may also contact her at the following e-mail, elementary@icda.edu.do

Middle School And High School Principal
Dr. Julissa Gómez, MA Ed & MD

Julissa Gómez, has been part of the administrative team since August 2004. She joined the ICDA teaching staff as a TESOL teacher in May 1987 and UNICDA as a university teacher in 2001.  Born and raised in Santo Domingo, she has live all her life in the city and is well known by her friends for being a bookworm. She obtained her degree in Medicine from INTEC in October 1992, specializing in Adolescent Medicine, furthers her education and obtained a second degree in Education with a concentration in Science in 1996.  In 2000, she concluded a Masters in Education from Framingham State College and is presently completing her doctoral studies with Nova Southeastern University education program.

Functions: Principal will be in charge of students, classrooms, educational program, and teaching staff of the 6th through 12th grades and the co-curricular teachers of these grades.

If you want to contact her at the Dominico Americano, please call 535-0665 EXT 252 or her
e-mail hs@icda.edu.do

School Psychologist (1st to 3rd grade)

Georgina Calzada, MA ED 

Georgina Calzada, Saad was born in the Dominican Republic and received her BA in Psychology and Master´s degree in Special Education from the Manhattanville College in the State of New York. She joined the Dominico-Americano in 2005, is presently the school psychologist for 1st to 3rd grade, and provides academic support for children with difficulties in the reading process.

If you want to contact her at the Dominico Americano, please call 535-0665 EXT 247 or her
e-mail     ________   @icda.edu.do

Counselors- School Psychologist (4th-8th) (Head of Department)
Carmen Reynoso

Carmen Reynoso de Pimentel was born in Santiago in the Dominican Republic. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and has taken graduated level courses from Western Carolina University and Buffalo State University. She was a teacher at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo for 12 years and has been a school psychologist at two local school for the last 30 years.
Presently Carmen is the elementary and middle school pyschologist of the Domínico Americano School.

Carmen is a founding member of the Dominican Psychologist Association and an ex becarium of the American Field Service Program (AFS).

If you want to contact her at the Dominico Americano School, please call 535-0665 EXT 249 or her
e-mail carmen.rp@codetel.net.do.

Counselors- School Guidance Counselor (9th –12th)
Olga Leon, MS

Ms. Olga Leon was born in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from Hunter´s College, New York. In addition to teaching in Middle School, she has been the guidance counselor of the Colegio Dominico Americano since August 2007.

If you want to contact her at the Dominico Americano School, please call 535-0665 EXT 286 or her e-mail ________@icda.edu.do

Activity Coordinator
Evelyn Peña, BA

Ms. Evelyn Peña was born in the Dominican Republic. In 2001, she joined the ICDA staff as an administrative assistant and became the activity coordinator in 2005. She is an avid sports fan, and enjoys motivating and planning of student activities.  A business graduated from UNICDA, she currently pursuing her Masters in Higher Management.

Functions: Plans and coordinates the logistics for all co curricular and extra curricular activities that are required by the school community that enhance the program. This includes booking of transportation, caters, sound equipments, conference rooms, auditorium and an exposition hall.

If you want to contact her at the Dominico Americano School, please call 535-0665 EXT 358 or at the e-mail activities@icda.edu.do

Teaching personnel

Our teaching personnel show great enthusiasm and knowledge when they teach. They are a multicultural group, since they represent the following nationalities: Dominican, American, and eleven other countries. 70% of our personnel have been with us more than five years and have their bachelors' degrees, and 30% have a Master's degree in education.

Teaching personnel for the Grade School (Grades 1 through 6)
Teaching Personnel for the High School (Grades 7 through 12)
Teaching Personnel for the Non-Core Curriculum

Parents' Committee

The parents are a vital part of our school community, and they are therefore volunteers as class delegates and sub-delegates. They help us with the school excursions, with the multicultural and science fairs, and many other school activities. The Parents' Committee is made up of a coordinator-president, a sub-coordinator/vice-president, a secretary, a treasurer, and a member.

Parent Committee Coordination 2006-2007
Parent Committee Coordination 2007-2008
Parent Committee Coordination 2008-2009

The Student Body

85% of the students have been at the Colegio for more than three years, and 60% for more than five years. Many of our students enter the Colegio when they are in Pre-School, but our first graduation was in 1995. We have had six graduations to date, and 95% of our graduates go on to the University. 30% of these students went to the university in the United States, 60% in the Dominican Republic, and the rest attended universities in other parts of the world.

Our students have an average academic index of 85%, and 50% of the students are boys; the other 50% are girls. The daily attendance and punctuality are 97%. The index of passing students is 99%.

Many students participate in extracurricular activities, clubs, and sports teams. The clubs include the school newspaper, the literary magazine, and the yearbook. In sports, the students compete as teams in volleyball, basketball, soccer, bowling, and baseball events, and so on. In the domain of music, students play the violin, the piano, and the saxophone. There is also a glee club.