Mrs.+Drake's+Details

Dear students and parents,

I was born Jessica Grace Michael in Tuscumbia, Alabama (home of Helen Keller) in 1981. I went to Colbert Heights High School and attended First Baptist Church Colbert Heights, where I met (and stalked during my young teenage years) Lucas Drake, who was three years older than me and thought he was three times cooler than me. In the summer after I graduated, he finally noticed me and had to win my attentions since by then I had given up on him. But he did and we've been together ever since. I started college not knowing what I wanted to do, but as I saw what he was doing in his Education program, I decided those were exactly the things I wanted to do. I graduated from The University of North Alabama in 2004 and got a job at Hayden High School, where he was teaching history. We've been here ever since and consider Hayden our home. Our daughter Laina is in the first grade and our son Tate is two. We love to be on the water at Smith Lake during the summer and dream of visiting the Caribbean again one day. He enjoys coaching baseball (and field maintenance), and I enjoy putting together Homecoming and Prom.

I really enjoy my students and believe that even though we "have to be" at school, we don't have to be miserable. We can learn and enjoy ourselves at the same time. I hope to be a resource for you, and hope you'll be one for me too as we learn together this year.