Jessica Bailey has spent the last 15 years in education at the secondary level teaching all things in Social Studies and English Language Arts from remediation to Advanced Placement. She has taught in two different countries and two different states, working with vulnerable and underserved populations in every district. She currently teaches English I, or, as she likes to refer to it, Contextual English at Elgin High School in Elgin, Oklahoma.
Alongside her experience in the classroom Mrs. Bailey has served as a coach, a mentor teacher, the gifted and talented director, and as the staff social chair in multiple districts. She has provided professional development at the district and national level and has been selected to multiple summer cohorts in an effort to continue her own learning. Mrs. Bailey is committed to providing a scaffolded, but rigorous learning environment for all of her students. She seeks to expose her students to as many perspectives as possible, reminding them that, “no art happens in a vacuum,” and if the student does not understand who the author was, and when and where they lived, the student will not fully understand the art.
Mrs. Bailey spends her time outside of the classroom with her close family and friends, reading, painting, getting loud for the Sooners and the Thunder, attending concerts, and travelling.
