Career Highlights:
Jennee Barnes-Gregory has been a resident of Gentry County all of her life. Jennee currently serves as the director for the Northwest Regional Professional Development Center (RPDC) on the Northwest Missouri State University campus. Northwest RPDC serves 59 school districts in the northwest region of the state. Northwest RPDC's mission is to build the capacity of educators and schools to maximize student performance through high quality professional development.
Earlier in her career, Jennee spent time in the classroom as an elementary school teacher and later as school principal in Northwest Missouri. As principal, she worked to maximize the educational quality students received through strategic planning efforts and the development of an innovative professional learning design for teachers. This design later earned the Commissioner's Award of Excellence for Professional Development. She now uses this experience to support and influence school principals and teacher leaders across the state of Missouri. Jennee has extensive experience in developing and facilitating school leadership teams, as well as coaching systemic change in schools. In her current position, Jennee works with numerous projects to support continuous school improvement. One role she is very passionate about is her collaboration with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop programming to grow and develop the leadership capacity in school leaders.
Continuing her own education has always been a priority. Jennee graduated with two degrees at Northwest Missouri State University and, more recently, received her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Currently, Jennee serves as a dissertation advisor for the ELPA doctoral program. Aside from graduate work, Jennee is actively engaged in professional learning opportunities at both state and national levels. Jennee believes wholeheartedly that regional vitality begins with education and that the quality of education begins with leadership. Jennee and her husband, David, reside on the family farm in Albany, Missouri.
