User:Euripides Rios

Euripides Rios, actor, cartoonist, journalist, playwright and teacher, retired as an experienced educator in Bilingual Education educator and Second language acquisition specialist in the areas of methodology and instructional strategies. He is the founder and creator of the Latino Publishing Services webpage. The Latino Publishing Services group was created to bring together ingenious, sophisticated and talented individuals to reveal their artistry as they tackle the desires and needs of our consumers.

Euripides have had a long and productive multifaceted artistic, educational, and journalistic careers. He arrived in New York City in the early 70’s and started his mainland experience as a reporter for the city’s major Spanish-language newspaper. In his native Puerto Rico he was a well known actor/comedian as a member of the Producciones Tommy Muñiz, daily Show del Mediodia, on WAPA TV Channel 4. He played the role of Valeriano, in the very popular Colegio de la Alegria. Later he played various roles for Producciones Raditel for WKBM Channel 11.

Upon his arrival to The Big Apple, the city’s Latino community, mostly Puerto Ricans, where standing up for equality in a wide range of education, social and economic opportunities. From this stage, Rios thrived into the arts, education and journalism to define and nurture his life as a Hispanic background striving for the realization of his American dream.

In the arts, Euripides had a brief encounter with the Puerto Rican Travelling Theater, after the successful short career as an actor in his native Puerto Rico. He founded Nuestra Expresion Teatral, a community theater group, that for five years entertained Hispanic Communities in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts areas. Later, back in New York City, he attended the PRTT playwrights workshops that assisted in the writing of five plays in English and Spanish. He also gave a hand to local community theater groups in their scenery design and marketing efforts. He had continued writing all kinds of genres as a teacher.

In Journalism and publishing, after his initial role as staff reporter in New York City,(in the late 70’s) he functioned briefly as a Translator and Reporter for the major newspaper in Puerto Rico, El Mundo. Back in the mainland, he served as a columnist, correspondent and photographer for the New York City and Puerto Rican newspapers, while generating his own publication “El Periodico” to serve Connecticut and Massachusetts. Years letter he began to publish “Avance Latino” as part of LatiNews services for the Hispanic markets outside New York City, in Southern New York. As an educator he published newsletters, brochures, playbills, and educational books.

In Education, he began as a bilingual teacher in Hartford, Connecticut, at a time when public education bilingualism for students in the Northeast region was both experimental and controversial. Rios who has a bachelor degree in Theater and Spanish, pledged himself to assist academically those with instructional language limitations. He attended Central Connecticut State University, Lehman College/CUNY, Long Island University, for certificates and higher degrees, as well as many seminars and workshops on language development and academics offered by local and regional graduate programs. He taught in the public schools systems of Hartford, Connecticut; New York City and Yonkers, New York. Besides his K-6 teachings, 7-12 Spanish Foreign Language, and computers; Rios taught Adult Basic Education and English as Second Language, in Hartford and New York. He also taught: Methods of Teaching Second Language Learners, to graduate and undergraduate at Lehman College, New York. Although he retired from teaching in 2007, he continued practicing his 3 loves {arts, education and journalism} through Latino Publishing Services and Substitute teaching at different levels. In the process, he has put together a group of scholarly sophisticated, and resourceful individuals to practice their artistry.