She is also a Peer Coach and a member of the school’s Instructional Leadership Team. Blanca began teaching in 1999 at Middleton Street Elementary School in Huntington Park. She was a General Education Teacher there until 2003 when she accepted a role as an Arts and English Language Development Teacher. Blanca transitioned back to general education in 2007, planning and developing standards-based instruction, assessments, and differentiated instruction for grades 3 through 6, before accepting her current role at Sunrise in 2013. Blanca has a Bachelor’s in Liberal Studies from California State University, Los Angeles, with an emphasis in curriculum and education, and a Master’s in Education from the University of Southern California.