Joe Christensen has been teaching traffic safety since 1970. He has more than 49 years of traffic safety education. In 2007 MDTSEA named Joe Driver Ed Teacher of the Year and ADTSEA named him a Teacher of Excellence. MDTSEA is the Minnesota Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association. ADTSEA is the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association.
	He taught driver education in several high school programs and at the college level. In fact he has ADTSEA certification to teach driver ed. teachers. Joe has been a member of the MDTSEA Board of Directors and has served as MDTSEA Conference & Workshop facilitator for about 20 years. He has attended 26 ADTSEA Conferences and was a speaker at four of them. While working at SCSU, he presented Driving Under the Influence Demonstrations to high school and college students around Minnesota. He also worked on creating driver education curriculum materials.
Joe was trained as an instructor to teach accident prevention courses in 1997 for AAA and and in 2003 for the Minnesota Safety Council. In 2013, he was approved as an independent provider of accident prevention courses. He did this because small towns could not reach the number of students required by the other programs. He served as the Toward Zero Death coordinator for MN 95 for several years and currently is a Stearns Benton Toward Zero Death committee member.

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