Melissa Tracey - First Grade




Melissa Tracey is excited to be joining the Clarksville Christian School team teaching first grade. Mrs. Tracey graduated from Austin Peay State University in 2008 with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. Mrs. Tracey worked in the banking industry for 13 years and subsequently began substituting in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System in 2004. She decided she loved being around the children so much that she decided to make a career change and go back to school to receive a degree in Elementary Education. She continued to substitute while working on her degree as well as after graduation, therefore giving her about six years of classroom experience. She plans to begin working toward a Masters degree in Instructional Technology in the near future.

She has been married to her husband, David, since 1989 and has a 14 year old daughter, Savannah, and a 3 year old Shih-Tzu named Molly Mae. She and her family are all members of the Joelton church of Christ. While at Joelton, she has been involved in the Sunday school program, Kids for Christ, Christmas Blitz, and co-designed the original church website. She and her husband were also among those couples starting a Christian Campers Ministry in 2000 and are still very active in the planning and organizing of this ministry every year. In her free time, she enjoys reading and scrapbooking.

Mrs. Tracey states that she is so excited to become a part of the Clarksville Christian family and to have the freedom to allow God into her classroom. She states, “I want to help my students learn that they can lead a moral Christian life in a ‘not so moral’ world. I want to teach them that with God’s help they can accomplish ANYTHING that they want to and to always use the Scripture in Philippians 4:13 which reads ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.’ My desire as a classroom teacher is to create an interesting and challenging environment for my students so that they have a positive academic experience, and therefore creating in them the desire to be lifelong learners.”