Cambridge High School French department

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Rachel Dines
department Chair

dines@fultonschools.org
​Rachel Dines loves sharing her passion for all things French and international with students.  She started teaching at Cambridge when it opened in 2012 and loves this school and community.  A resident of Milton, Ms. Dines has three children in Fulton County Schools and a great husband who tolerates her French fixation with good humor.  Ms. Dines holds a B.A. in English with minors in French and Secondary Education from Milligan College.  Her M.A. in French Language and Literature is from the University of Notre Dame, and she completed PhD coursework at Indiana University in French Literature.   Studies abroad include a semester in England and summers in France--in Grenoble and the region of Brittany.  In addition to co-sponsoring the French Honor Society, Ms. Dines also established and directs the exchange program with the Lycée Vilgénis in the Paris region.  In her free time, Ms. Dines enjoys camping, reading, hiking, baking, and working with the youth at Alpharetta First Baptist Church.   Fun fact:  Ms. Dines once backpacked across Europe with friends, visiting 9 countries in 30 days.

Colleen Baldridge

cdbaldridge@fultonschools.org
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Madame Baldridge teaches French 1 and French 2 / 2 Honors. Her passion for the French language and culture led her to spend a year studying in Nîmes and Aix-en-Provence, France while living with a French family who she still visits yearly. She has also traveled to Brussels, Quebec City, and Montreal. Her dream is to visit the rest of the Francophone world!

Madame Baldridge’s qualifications include a B.A. in French from the University of Pittsburgh and a certification in Foreign Language Education from Kennesaw State University. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Foreign Language Education with an emphasis in French at Auburn. In her free time she likes to spend time with her family and her dog, Ellie.

Ann LeClair-Ash

ashann@fultonschools.org
Madame LeClair-Ash has taught levels 1, 3, 3 Honors and 4 Honors at CAmbridge as well as TAG (talented & gifted) seminars. Her teaching experience includes 10 years at Pope High School in the Cobb County School District, teaching French levels I - VIII as well as 5 additional years of teaching French to pre-K students, elementary students, high school students and adults. She has lived or studied in France for a total of 2 years and loves to share her passion for the language and the culture of the francophone world with her students!  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, including husband, son and daughter. Her degrees and certifications include:
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*EdS   Specialist Degree in Foreign Language Education, concentration French 
Auburn University 2010

*Master's Degree  Educational Leadership
Kennesaw State University, 2005

*Bachelors Degree, French Education, Public Health Education
University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, 1994

*National Board Certification in World Languages other than English, 2003, 2013

*Gifted Certification, 2003