A new teacher for the Education Department starts her first year at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

     Tracie Jones, an assistant for Education Renewal Zones, helps students become future teachers.  She also instructs them on how to use technology. 
   
   Jones got her bachelor's degree in education at Oklahoma Christian University and masters in education and technology at Wallden University in Md. She worked as a classroom teacher in Okla. then moved to Monticello to work for the Education Co-op. Soon, an opportunity came to teach for a higher education at UAM.
  
   "I'm very pleased that she has agreed to serve the School Education Technology Committee," Jeff Longing, UAM's Instructor of Eduction, said. "She will be an asset to this committee and to the school of education as a whole".
  
   Jones' family includes her husband Brian Jones, the campus minister for the Christian in Action, 9-year-old daughter Hannah Jones and 4-year-old Zach Jones. All support UAM sports. She helped the CIA start the tailgating movement in 2000, now held at every home game.