lbarlow@jacksonprep.net
McRae Building
769-257-4394
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Lena is beginning her 8th year teaching in
the arts and her first year at Prep. After receiving her Bachelors
degree in Art from Mississippi State in 1979, she worked in several
art related fields from ad agencies, architecture firms, to museums
and public relations offices. While working at Millsaps as a graphic
artist, she received another Bachelors degree in 1995, this one
in education. She began teaching art in Madison County in 1996.
In 1998 she was nominated to serve on a Praxis validation/standard
setting panel for new teacher licensure assessments that had been
developed by ETS. In 2000, she took graduate teaching courses
at Mississippi College and received an additional area of certification
in gifted education and taught gifted for a few years.
Besides teaching, Lena stays busy with her husband,
Chuck, their two children, Katherine, age 20, who is a junior
at University of Georgia and Charles, age 12, who is a 7th grader
at Jackson Prep, and their two dogs.
In her "spare time", she has started
experimenting with gardening and is quite intrigued by it. She
enjoys reading, especially Mississippi authors and hiking particularly
in the mountains and is setting up her easel for future painting
projects.
Her grandfather told her when she was a little girl
that 1st, it would take a hundreds of years to take all the courses
Harvard had to offer and 2nd he told her, and this quote is close
but probably not exact, that a wise man is a man that knows he
doesn't know everything.