About Me

Mrs. Ward is married and has two children, Connor (5) and Emma (1), two dogs, Queenie and Ricky, and a cat named Biscuit! She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Theatre with a minor in Mass Communications from Middle Tennessee State University. She then went on and earned a Master of Arts in Education at Union University. After college she worked in Nashville as a stage manager and Production Manager for Memories to DVD where she transferred film, slides, videotapes, records and reel to reel audio tapes to digital formats as well as digitally enhanced photographs & edited film and designed multimedia presentations. In 2011, she joined Tennessee Shakespeare Company as their Stage Manager in Memphis. While working at TSC, she was hired by Frank Bluestein at Germantown High School, her alma mater, to work with his fine art students. In 2014, she was offered a theatre/film teaching position at GHS. She worked at GHS for 7 years and Arlington High School for 1 year. She is excited to start her 9th year at Bartlett High School.  

Teaching Philosophy 

As a teacher that works in the creative arts, I feel it is my obligation to my students to help stoke the flames of self-expression, self-confidence, and self-discipline. I think the skills that they learn in my classes, particularly in regard to clear communication and overcoming fear of speaking or performing in front of an audience, but in the classroom or on stage, helps to establish life skills that my students will be able to employ not only in higher education, but throughout their entire lives. The creative arts are vitally important, and always have been. I take my role as both a teacher and an example very seriously; and it brings me a tremendous amount of satisfaction and pride when I see the growth and difference in my students after they’ve spent time being exposed to the arts.