JYA Dept. Leader and Student Affairs Coordinator
JYA English
Email
ekennedy@tps-jya.com
Elizabeth Kennedy began her career as an educator at James B. Dudley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. She taught there for seven years before joining the John Yowell Academy at the Piedmont School to teach English in the fall of 2018. Currently, Elizabeth is the JYA Department & Student Affairs Coordinator, as well as teaches JYA English. She has vast experience providing various types of learners with a variety of instructional techniques, putting an emphasis on mindfulness, social and emotional intelligence, goal planning, and executive functioning. Specializing in literary analysis, she has taught curriculums spanning academic levels. She earned a bachelor’s degree from High Point University in English Literature alongside a minor in Religious Studies before attending the NCTeach program at UNC Greensboro to obtain her teaching license. Elizabeth is family-oriented and thrives on nurturing meaningful and long-lasting connections with those around her. Elizabeth, her husband, and her two beautiful children have two dogs, Loki and Vera. A lifelong lover of animals, movies, classic rock, and competitive cooking shows, she is quirky and full of random trivia. Making people laugh brings her immense joy and she is relentless and shameless in her pursuit to do so. Elizabeth loves to explore new cities and believes in the necessity of curiosity and the vast healing powers of adventure.