Meet Mrs. Smith

I am thrilled to be your child's Art teacher this year!  Here are a few things you might want to know about me.  

I am an Eanes parent as well as a teacher.  My oldest son, Hudson,  graduated from  Westlake in 2021, and my middle son, Henry, graduated in 2023, and my youngest son, Sawyer, is a senior at Westlake.  This is my twenty-first year of teaching, and my fourteenth year teaching at BPE.

I am a practicing artist.   I have experience working in many mediums, but my favorite is oil paint, and my preferred subjects are stylized landscapes and animals.  You can see some of my work at www.elizabethcompton.com  

I am originally from Dallas but spent much of my adult life in California.  I attended Stanford University as an undergraduate and earned B.A.s in Art and English.  I came to teaching by way of painting murals in the San Francisco Bay Area with local children.  I enjoyed working with them so much that I decided to make teaching my career.  As a native Texan, I came to UT to earn my teaching credential.  My first teaching job was in Chicago where I taught first grade for two years.

After those first years of teaching, I attended Harvard's Graduate School of Education where I earned my Master’s Degree in a program called Arts in Education.  My graduate program focused on using art in the general curriculum to foster learning and creativity.  From there I moved back to the Bay Area to teach first grade in San Jose for five years.  When my own children were born I chose to stay home while they were young.  Soon after becoming parents, my husband Greg and I decided that Austin was the best place to raise our kids.  These years in Eanes have been wonderful for all of us Smiths.  We are so glad we chose this community in which to live, work, and raise our boys.

I am excited about this year and can’t wait to help your children learn and grow.  Please contact me anytime!

esmith@eanesisd.net

512-732-9200