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
Pedro Cairo, MA ED

Pedro Cairo is the second of seven children born in the bosom of a close-knit family in the traditional neighborhood of San Carlos, in Santo Domingo. Married since 1988, he’s the father of two: Ariel, who’ s 12 yrs. old; and Jessica, age 9, born in New York City. When asked about his nationality, his response is that he is “probably the only 100% Dominican man that will die a Dominican, and does not know how to dance Merengue.”

He received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and Post-Graduate Certificate in Production Management from INTEC. He has worked as an engineer and college professor concurrently for most of the 80’s, choosing Education over Engineering since 1994. With a Masters in Bilingual Education from Fordham University, he continues taking courses from John Jay College and Western Carolina University in school administration and supervision. Mr. Cairo served for a year on the Committee for Science Education of the New York Academy of Sciences, and became the lead teacher for the implementation of project SP3ARK (a middle school science reform program, the initials stand for Scientific Process, Practice, and Presentation: Applying Resources and Knowledge) at Booker T. Washington Middle School, in New York City. He joined the CDA in August of 1998 as a High School teacher, and UNICDA (University of Instituto Cultural Dominico-Americano) in April of ’99. He’s been the Elementary School Principal since August of 2000.

Functions: Principal will be in charge of students, classrooms, educational program, and teaching staff of the 1st through 6th grades and co-curricular teachers of these grades.

He can be reached at (809) 535-0665, extensions 250 & 286.

High School Principal
Dra. Janet Reyes, MA Ed

Mrs. Janet Reyes, who joined the CDA administrative staff in July of 1996, was born in Brooklyn, New York, but she considers herself a “Dominicanewyorican” due to her Puertorican and Dominican parents. She moved to the Dom. Rep. in 1979, one month before the disastrous Hurricane David. Nonetheless, she has remained in this beautiful country where she married a Dominican lawyer and has a wonderful 6-year old, Juan Ernesto.

Mrs. Reyes holds a Doctorado in General Law from the Univ. Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Later on she followed her heart and went into teaching at the tender age of 18. She studied education (mayor in TESOL) receiving a Bachelor of Arts and afterwards obtained a Masters degree in TESOL from the Univ. Pedro Henríquez Ureña. She has also obtained graduate credits in School Administration and supervision from Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo and from Western Carolina University.

Functions: Principal will be in charge of students, classrooms, educational program, and teaching staff of the 7th through 12th grades and the co-curricular teachers of these grades.

Counselors- School Psychologist (1-6th)
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 (7th –12th)
Lic. Sara Guerrero, MA

Ms. Sara Guerrero de Victoria was born in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from Pedro Henriquez Ureña National University with a Bachelors in Clinical Psychology, from Boston University with a Masters of Arts in Applied Psychology and from Autonomous University of Santo Domingo with a Masters in Human Sexuality and Marital Therapy, thus accumulating 24 credit hours in school counseling. She has also taken training in counseling for HIV positive individuals and a course in Research Methodology both from University of California, San Francisco Ms. Guerrero worked for eleven years at the Human Sexuality Institute as a therapist, involving her in teaching since then. She has taught at Pedro Henriquez Ureña National University, and at Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Ms. Guerrero has been the guidance counselor of the Colegio Dominico Americano since November 2000.

Activity Coordinator
Monika Gomez

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.

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.