Christine Birch, MS
Assistant Professor of Education
Christine Birch joined George Fox as a half-time visiting assistant professor of education in 2018. She primarily teaches online. Courses she has taught include the Inclusive Classroom in a Diverse Society class to general education teacher candidates, as well as a number of courses in the university’s special education endorsement program.
Birch also worked as an early childhood evaluator and as a tutor using the Orton Gillingham Method, serving as a substitute for the Newberg School District both in a temporary and long-term role. In all, she has more than 20 years of teaching experience, having taught in Idaho, Iowa, Kansas and Oregon. She currently also teaches in Idaho as a second-grade teacher at Cole Valley Christian School in Boise.
Birch earned a master’s degree in adaptive special education from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, in 2008, and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, with an emphasis in the educationally handicapped, from Northwest Nazarene University in 1996.