About Mrs. Gray
Education background: I was raised in Mansfield, Missouri, and attended the Mansfield R-IV Schools from kindergarten thru 12th grade, graduating in 1991. I obtained my bachelor's degree in animal science from Southwest Missouri State University (now MSU) in May 1995. I worked for MFA Incorporated then MFA Agri-Services from 1995 to 2002 when I began teaching at Mansfield. I obtained my master's degree in education from Southwest Baptist University in 2004. My certification is in middle school mathematics, middle school science, and high school biology. I have taught 6th grade through 8th grade math and science, 9th and 10th grade math, high school science, 7th and 8th grade communication arts and social studies, special education, and physical education.
I am an eMINTS-certified teacher and am a certified eMINTS Instructional Specialist. As part of my duties as an eIS, I serve as the Mansfield R-IV District eMINTS trainer. I finished training my first group of teachers in May of 2015 and will be training another group during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years.
Personal information: I have a large extended family in the Mansfield area. My parents still own and operate a dairy farm in Douglas County. I married my high school sweetheart, Aaron, in 1992, and we now live and raise our family on the farm where I was raised. We have three boys. Aaron recently made a big change from being the high school principal at Seymour (where he had previously taught history, coached baseball, and was assistant basketball coach) to come to Mansfield to teach American history and facilitate our high school learning lab. He is also the head girls' softball coach and assistant girls' basketball coach. He is one of the teachers in the first group of teachers I trained.
Our family loves spending time together and with our extended family. We enjoy being outside - watching and playing baseball, basketball, volleyball, fishing, hunting, and target shooting. We're lifelong St. Louis Cardinals baseball fans and spend many summer nights watching or listening to Cardinal baseball if we're not at a ball field somewhere coaching or watching our own boys play. Aaron and I spend a great deal of time in children's and teen ministry at our church and coaching our sons' youth baseball and basketball teams.
I am an eMINTS-certified teacher and am a certified eMINTS Instructional Specialist. As part of my duties as an eIS, I serve as the Mansfield R-IV District eMINTS trainer. I finished training my first group of teachers in May of 2015 and will be training another group during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years.
Personal information: I have a large extended family in the Mansfield area. My parents still own and operate a dairy farm in Douglas County. I married my high school sweetheart, Aaron, in 1992, and we now live and raise our family on the farm where I was raised. We have three boys. Aaron recently made a big change from being the high school principal at Seymour (where he had previously taught history, coached baseball, and was assistant basketball coach) to come to Mansfield to teach American history and facilitate our high school learning lab. He is also the head girls' softball coach and assistant girls' basketball coach. He is one of the teachers in the first group of teachers I trained.
Our family loves spending time together and with our extended family. We enjoy being outside - watching and playing baseball, basketball, volleyball, fishing, hunting, and target shooting. We're lifelong St. Louis Cardinals baseball fans and spend many summer nights watching or listening to Cardinal baseball if we're not at a ball field somewhere coaching or watching our own boys play. Aaron and I spend a great deal of time in children's and teen ministry at our church and coaching our sons' youth baseball and basketball teams.