About the teacher

Lise Olsen-Dufour 

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Lise Olsen-Dufour ("Ouyang Laoshi") has been teaching Chinese at Grandview since 2006. She started learning Chinese at Carleton College in Minnesota in 1988 and studied in Hong Kong and Nanjing, China during the summer and fall of 1989 with Duke University. After graduating with a B.A. in East Asian Studies, she studied advanced Chinese at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan on the campus of National Taiwan University. She spent four years in a PhD program in East Asian Religion and Philosophy at Stanford University, during which time she also spent two years in advanced Japanese language training including one year at the Inter University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. In addition to teaching Chinese for Cherry Creek Schools, she has worked for the Educational Testing Service as an AP Chinese Reader and Scoring Leader for 12 years, and served for six years on the AP Development Committee which writes the AP Chinese exam. She is married to a French teacher, and they speak French at home. 

After school Ouyang Laoshi also plays the flute, teaches group fitness classes at the Trails Rec Center and is obsessed with tennis, and loves to spend time in the mountains.