Diane Staehr Fenner

Diane Staehr Fenner, Ph.D., is founder and president of SupportEd, LLC. She serves all educators to help Multilingual learners realize their full potential. Diane and her team provide professional development, coaching, technical assistance, and curriculum support to school districts, state departments of education, and the U.S. Department of Education. She is an author of eight books on ML education and a frequent keynote presenter at conferences across North America. Diane spent a decade as an ELD teacher, dual language assessment teacher, and ELD assessment specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools, VA and taught English in Mexico and Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in Multilingual / Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Literacy at George Mason University. She earned her MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training and her Masters in German at Penn State University. Diane grew up on a dairy farm in New York State’s Finger Lakes region and is a proud first-generation college graduate.