{"id":8241,"date":"2021-08-17T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/cooper\/?page_id=8241"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:09:29","slug":"laura-blanco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/staff\/laura-blanco\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Blanco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8245\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolwebsi.wpenginepowered.com\/cooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/08\/20210811_135850-1-1-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/08\/20210811_135850-1-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/08\/20210811_135850-1-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2021\/08\/20210811_135850-1-1-1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Email:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:blancolr@milwaukee.k12.wi.us\">blancolr@milwaukee.k12.wi.us<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Teaching:<\/strong> Since 2002.\u00a0 I have taught public school music in Wisconsin since January 2014.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Degrees:\u00a0<\/strong>Bachelor of Arts in Music from Northeast Missouri State University (now known as Truman State University), Kirksville, Missouri; Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Master of Arts in Teaching from Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Licenses\/Certifications:\u00a0<\/strong> Previously Certified in Adult Education and Literacy (in Missouri); Currently certified in General, Instrumental and Vocal Music (in Wisconsin) Pre-K through 12th grades.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Fun Fact:\u00a0<\/strong>I love to ride my bike on trails in Wisconsin and try to ride as many miles as I can and this year my goal is to ride 1000 miles by October 31st.\u00a0 \u00a0I have two dogs (Mr. Kennedy and Lincoln) and two cats (Baily and Luna).\u00a0 My favorite musical instrument is the piano\u00a0 and\u00a0have studied and played piano since the summer after I was in first grade.\u00a0 \u00a0I also speak Spanish. I am so excited to be a new part of the Cooper school community.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email:\u00a0blancolr@milwaukee.k12.wi.us Teaching: Since 2002.\u00a0 I have taught public school music in Wisconsin since January 2014. Degrees:\u00a0Bachelor of Arts in Music from Northeast Missouri State University (now known as Truman State University), Kirksville, Missouri; Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Master of Arts in Teaching from Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Licenses\/Certifications:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-8241","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8241\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/cooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}