Cynthia Blancke speaks five languages fluently! She was born and raised in Belgium. She is a very intuitive and caring foreign language teacher. This year, she has developed the first hybrid foreign language secondary learning model in the State of Colorado. She provides supplemental lectures focusing on listening and speaking at VSSA as students take Aventa on-line courses. Cynthia’s diverse understanding of foreign languages allows VSSA to offer French, Spanish, German, Latin and Chinese. Students complete the bulk of their written work through Aventa, and then meet with Cynthia for 50 – 200 minutes per week depending on their schedule. Cynthia lives with her husband and two children in Edwards.

University of Louvain, Belgium, Degree in Germanic Phil, 1979
European Teaching License: ESL, German, 1980
University of Minnesota, M.ED. Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Colorado Teaching License, 1989
Adams State College, MA in Bilingual Education (Sp/Eng.), 1996