Desde la Cúpula

Desde la Cúpula is a school-rooted interview series built around recognition. Its center is Gimnasio Moderno, but its interest is broader than institutional memory. Presented by Juan Vázquez, the program gives teachers and other gimnasiano figures time to narrate how they were formed, what brought them to the school, and how their private histories shape their public vocation. The pace is deliberate. A guest can move from university studies to another country, from language to pedagogy, from a childhood discomfort with rigid education to a present-day commitment to inclusion. The show lets those turns breathe. It is especially attentive to the inner life of teaching: doubt, creativity, frustration, discovery, and the strange moment when a student suddenly finds a route into a subject. In one episode, science becomes a way to help a hesitant student imagine medicine and a larger project of life. In another, writing is described as a channel for thought, emotion, memory, and relation with others. Conversations about convivencia and school environment bring emotional literacy into view, asking how students name sadness, frustration, or unease before learning what to do with those feelings. The program also values intellectual formation. Linguistics, institutional educational projects, critical reading, humanitarian work, special-needs support, and creative writing with communities all appear as parts of a larger conversation about education. Its warmth is not noisy. Praise arrives through attentive listening, repeated gratitude, and the slow transformation of a career path into an example of vocation. Music matters too. Guests close episodes by choosing songs that carry memory, energy, tenderness, or personal history, from salsa to ABBA to reflective Spanish-language selections. Desde la Cúpula suits anyone interested in schools as living communities, where a teacher’s biography, classroom practice, and sense of purpose are treated as worthy of careful public attention.