Jane Boyd:  

I am starting 25 years as a speech teacher and debate coach and twenty years of that at Grapevine High School in Texas. I got my Bachelors at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in 1984. In 2006, I graduated from Tarleton State University with a Masters of Education in Administration with a 4.0 GPA. I have had a good and adventureous life. I have traveled quite a bit in the US and am still very close to my family, who mostly live near my parents. While teaching for four years at Arkansas High School, I coached 3 state champions in Interpretation acting events and had a Speaker of the House in the State student congress. I taught speech, theatre, and debate along with "family planning" while at AHS. In my 20 years as coach at GHS, I cultivated a TOC top speaker, seven TFA state champions, 2 State UIL champions, and coached 50+ students to the NFL National Championship with 10 of those students finishing in the top 10 - Including a 3rd place in Lincoln Douglas Debate, 4th place speaker in Cross-examination debate, 8th place student congress and the first coach in National Forensic League history to have 3 Lincoln Douglas Debaters from the same school in the elimination rounds in the same year. In addition to coaching Lincoln Douglas Debate, Extemporaneous Speakin...Expand for more