She received the ALAS-IDB Award 2015 as Best Educator in Latin America, and was a Top 50 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize in 2015 and 2016. She founded a school, “Colegio Valle de Filadelfia”, which model has been franchised: there are now seven schools operating in México, and two more internationally: Costa Rica and Brazil. She has authored a dozen textbooks published by Pearson Education. Elisa is also an online course instructor, with almost 2000 students from 53 countries. She has presented live lectures and workshops for teachers both in English and Spanish all over Latin America, and also in Europe and Middle East.