Faith Engroos Cruz, M.A.

Faith Engroos Cruz, M.A. is a German educator with extensive experience teaching German, literature, writing, history, and other humanities courses at the collegiate, secondary, and homeschool levels. She began her collegiate teaching career as a graduate student instructor and later served as an adjunct professor in the Department of German at Duke University. She holds an M.A. in German from Duke University and a B.A. in German with a minor in education from Furman University.

Her professional interests include German language and culture, second-language acquisition, comparative literature and translation, gifted education, online and hybrid learning methodologies, and curriculum and instructional design. She has developed secondary-level curricula in German, literature, apologetics, and writing and research, designing syllabi, assessments, and instructional materials to meet student needs.

Cruz is a Louisiana-certified teacher in German and Academically Gifted Education. She has also received a Fulbright Teacher Exchange award to Austria and a teaching scholarship at Duke University. She is a member of the American Association of Teachers of German and Phi Sigma Iota, the national foreign language honor society. Her professional experience also includes curriculum development, online pedagogy, mentoring, organizational management, and team leadership.