Bridge to CFS Upper School

Incoming CFS 9th graders are invited to enroll in this half day program that is designed to provide exposure to foundational high school level skills while introducing students to the Upper School in a low stakes, low stress atmosphere. Topics to be covered include assessing executive functioning skills (strengths and challenges), setting individual goals, organizing time and materials, note-taking, study and test taking strategies, and how to develop metacognition through self-reflection. 

Kersten Jacobson Biehn, Ph.D. is the CFS Upper School Learning Specialist, as well as a humanities teacher and assistant swim coach. She is also a parent of two CFS Upper School students.

Kersten has a BA from Princeton, an MA and PhD in intellectual history from Rice, additional graduate degrees in teaching from Emory and Meredith, and a graduate certification in special education from NC State. She is passionate about celebrating neurodiversity and supporting students with disabilities. Her prior experience includes teaching at charter and independent schools in North Carolina and Texas. Over the past decade, she has held a variety of leadership positions, including Principal of Teaching and Learning and Interim Head at The Lerner School. Kersten loves spending time with friends and family, swimming (she is the assistant coach for the CFS swim team!) and sports in general, visiting the mountains and the ocean, staying engaged through community service and activism, reading and learning, and writing a science fiction novel in collaboration with her brother.

We are offering this program free to CFS families. Enrollment is open and can be completed with an existing or new CampInTouch account (free of charge). The student must be enrolled as a first year in the CFS Upper School for 2025-2026 in order to register. 

There'll be nothing to pay during the registration process.

Please contact us:

• registration and other administrative questions: Anthony and Chloe at ExtendedLearning@cfsnc.org
• course questions: Kersten at kbiehn@cfsnc.org