Janet Caven is a licensed Minnesota special educator with certifications in Deaf Education and Elementary Education. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She completed her Master’s Degree in Bilingual Deaf Education at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C.

Janet has been working in Deaf Education at the K-12, undergraduate and graduate level for over 20 years in various capacities: leadership and literacy camp, classroom teacher, itinerant teacher, American Sign Language teacher, family and school liaison, mentor for newly licensed DHH teachers in MN as well as university faculty. Janet is proficient in ASL and is grateful to the Deaf community for continually sharing their expertise and partnership.

Janet is passionate about educating the whole child, supporting students with self-advocacy needs and fostering development of a positive D/deaf identity. She has experience and training with teaching literacy across multiple subject areas, direct instruction in math, reading and writing, establishing a positive work ethic and building healthy relationships with classroom staff to ensure students' needs are being met in the classroom. She is an encourager, a lifelong learner, and strives to meet the needs of individual learners in fun and creative ways. Janet lives with her husband and family in MN and home educates her children. When not teaching, Janet can be found reading, cooking, playing games or on an outdoor adventure with her friends and family.