School of Education

Jan Forsse loves working with graduate students who have a heart for students with disabilities. She started her career in Abilene, Texas tutoring students with language and learning disabilities, then worked with low achieving inner city students in a Title I, pull out program in Nashville, Tennessee. She spent 3 years teaching in Zambia, Central Africa as a missionary teacher. Forsse also experienced teaching grades K-5 in California public schools in Glendale and Placentia. Her seven years in school administration at the Los Angeles County Office of Education ín The Teacher Education and Computer Center took her all over the State of California working with Sacramento's Staff Development Unit, TEC Center and Developmental Innovative Grants and with Title IV-C. an educational television program for teachers called “Educational Programs that Work” She was an adjunct professor at Azusa Pacific University for 13 years and is now in her 6th years as full-time faculty at the Orange Regional Center and Special Education Department. She co-created the Branson Bear intellectual property with her husband, Ken Forsse. They work together managing the Teddy Ruxpin intellectual property which Ken created.