Meet,

Fern Zahlen

Fern has an exemplary educational background.  She earned her Bachelor degree from the University of Minnesota with a major in Nursing and Minors in Psychology, Education, and Special Education.  Her Masters was earned at Pepperdine University, School of Administration and Management, LA. She has eight lifetime credentials covering everything educational from Administration to Junior College Teaching to Pupil Personnel Service. For most of her career Fern served as the Student Service Administrator for  Fountain Valley School District which was a new district with many new staff members serving a new growing community.

The knowledge Fern has gained during her fifty years of earning credentials, working on educational grant projects, developing curriculums and staff training programs for teachers, have given her the expertise in areas where many classroom teachers are looking for knowledge to apply in their classrooms.  Her classroom experience included teaching in the Masters in Education Program at Pepperdine University.  She also taught at Long Beach State in the teaching program where she lectured and critiqued the students’ teaching in the classroom.

As far back as 1992 Fern receive an Academic Excellence Award for Staff Training in Bilingual Education.  She helped obtain  grants for English Language Acquisition Title VII  Transitional Bilingual Education starting in 1986.  Other grants she was successful in obtaining were for Drug-Free Schools, Child Abuse Prevention,  Tobacco Education, and Problem Solving for Life.  

Many of her courses have grown from the Staff Development programs she put together for the teachers in her district.  Some of those courses have been based on her experience of dealing with students and the current social issues such as teenage sex, drug use, immigrant families, child obesity, AIDs, alcohol abuse, computer use, and the effects of child abuse. 

Fern also presented her programs to other school district administrators. She was chosen as the representative of the State Board of Education for the purpose of conducting Consolidated Application Program Reviews. And her presentation on Acquired Immune Deficiencies was aired on Channels 6 and 50 in Southern California.

As an instructor of online courses for teachers, Fern has applied her administrative training to offer instruction on a professional level with her generous concern for her.

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