Hi! My name is Jacob Troublefield, and I am a collaborative teacher within the Third Grade team! This will be my second year teaching Third Grade at BCE.  Prior to obtaining my certification in teaching, I worked at Westlake High School for five years as a teacher’s aide with both the Behavior Support and Life Skills teams. 

I was born in Amarillo, and grew up in the then small town of Bushland, located fourteen miles west of the Yellow City just past the Cadillac Ranch. The summer before my junior year of high school my family relocated to Blanco, Texas, where I graduated from high school in 2009.

In grade school, I was fortunate enough to be taught by teachers whose passion for learning wore off on me. These teachers - many of whom taught English or Social Studies - encouraged me to let my curiosity about the wider world - especially its past and its cultures -  guide my educational and vocational choices.  

Which is how I wound up at the University of Texas at Austin after graduating from high school, where I stayed for the next five years, studying History (my focus was British Imperial History), Anthropology, and English literature. In college, I fell in love with traveling and spending time in museums and archives, pouring over old artifacts and dust covered documents. (I graduated from UT with a B.A. in History in 2014. Hook ‘em!)

When I’m not at school, I enjoy spending time with my books, vinyl records, and my family. Reading nonfiction is the only activity that can occupy my attention span for an extended period of time. I also enjoy listening to music (especially on vinyl records which I started collecting last year), playing guitar (mostly folksy, fingerpicking tunes), and watching old movies (mainly dramas and comedies from the 1940s through the 1960s). 

My whole life has been focused on learning, and I’m looking forward to playing an integral part in the educational journey of my students and their parents.