Before creating this educational project, Manuela worked for 7 years at the Inter- American Academy of Panama with children aged between preschool and first grade. The great experience she acquired and her strong calling and love for children, prepared her to create her own school. Having a connection with so many children, Manuela´s name gained great reputation and so she decided to call it by her own name with a phrase that identifies her educational purpose: My First Years with Teacher Manuela. Later on, the preschool began to be solely identified by the name “Teacher Manuela.”