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School adds to focus on career training
28 Sep 2018
FAIRMONT — As part of Fairmont High School’s goal to grow its vocational program, an additional family and consumer science teacher has been added for the upcoming school year.
Jeanne Garbers Walden will teach culinary classes, which include Food Prep 1 and Food Prep 2, and will be involved with the new work-based learning program.
Garbers is a 2004 Fairmont High School graduate. She has a bachelor’s degree in family and consumer science education and a master’s degree in education.
Garbers husband, Andrew Walden, is also a teacher. He will teach sixth-grade Minnesota history at Fairmont Elementary School.
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