About Ms. Johnston

Jennifer Johnston (AKA - Ms. J) grew up outside Nashville, Tennessee, and moved to Greenville in 2000 on a whim when her hubby took a job as a sales-rep for this area, but who (being a classically-trained violinist and not any good at selling household gift-wares) flamed out spectacularly in that job within 6 months. However, the couple loved Greenville and decided to stay. Before her life in Greenville started, Ms. J earned her Bachelor of Science in a really weird major known as Human & Organizational Development with a second major in English from Vanderbilt University in 2000, and began a 4-year long illustrious career in advertising as a media planner (which was a really FUN job, but not at all FULFILLING).  So, she ditched that career and became a PACE teacher for Greenville County Schools in 2004. PACE is a 3-year training program for professionals who want to become teachers in a critical needs subject area, and it stands for Program for Alternative Certification of Educators (it's now known as GATE - new acronym, same concept). Even though she began teaching middle school because she couldn't find a job in a high school, she turned out to LOVE teaching middle schoolers and has been living the dream as a middle school ELA teacher ever since. Ms. J began teaching at CTC in 2004, and she thinks of it as her second home. Along the way, she's also earned her masters in education, trained as a certified yoga teacher, and begun teaching graduate level courses to help other teachers earn their gifted and talented endorsement. Because she is the world's worst traveler, she lives vicariously through Ms. Baiden's adventures (see Ms. B's about page), so that means she can sit around a lot and read. In some year in the way past, Ms. J was honored to be Sterling School's Teacher of the Year and somehow eked out a win as a district Top 10 Finalist (which does NOT come with any kind of cash award, FYI).

  Thanks for reading this really silly bio, if you made it this far! 

His name is Jameson and he was born in 2012. He should have brown hair and brown eyes  because both my husband and myself are brown-haired, brown-eyed people...but he doesn't. He is blonde and blue-eyed, and when I asked a science teacher the probability that this combo would happen, she said he had a 25% chance of being blonde and blue-eyed. That seems like a high probability to me. Can anyone who is interested in genetics verify that statistic and get back to me? Meanwhile, isn't he super-cute just as he is? 

My husband is also a teacher. His name is James Johnston, and he teaches Orchestra and Piano at Greenville High. You should go there for high school and take orchestra or piano class from him. He takes his students on very cool trips that you will want to go on. Trust me. Like Disney, Bahamas, New York, Busch Gardens, Universal Studios, Chicago, Los Angeles, the list goes on...