Jenny Bishop

Children & Family Minister

jennyb@ventanaschool.org

About Jenny
Jenny has been a member of Christ Church since she was baptized in 1975. Over the years she has been active in plays, choir, vestry, youth group, search committees, nativity scenes, and Sunday school. Taught high school art and art history for 10 years. Then she had her oldest and took time off and saw they started a preschool at church. She began teaching our first twos class at Ventana and has been here ever since as a parent, teacher, school board member, or on vestry. She has her National Board teaching certificate and was able study the Reggio Emilia philosophy in Italy. Jenny is a mom with three teenagers who loves to garden, hike, and draw outside. They have a dog and two cats, in addition to families of wild birds that Joe trained to migrate to our backyard each year with the plants he chose to attract them.
At CCLA Jenny has done a little bit of almost everything except preach. She has taught in each of the classrooms except for one! She taught preschool from 2006-2020, was a founder of our elementary school and first two's teacher. Jenny loves the Reggio Emilia philosophy because of its emphasis on using art to communicate, tell stories and learn. She has striven to create for her children and our community a school that is full of ideas that she wished for as a child. Jenny is so proud of the work we have done here in growing a successful, innovative and unique environment that utilizes the spaces she loved as a child and turned them into something people of all ages can enjoy everyday not just on Sundays.

Fun Fact about Jenny: I love costume parties and have a whole closet dedicated to costumes for the kids and I.

When I was 5, I was pretty sure I would be an Art Teacher when I grew up. Quote from my mom "Jenny has an art project going on in every room. She loves everything about art except cleaning up."

If we had an office talent show, I'd wow everyone with my telling jokes in bad costumes talent.