Mrs. Kelly Hensley

Mrs. Kelly Hensley brings more than 20 years of experience to the English classroom. She holds a B.A. in English and a Master of Arts in Teaching from James Madison University, as well as an Ed.S. from Walden University.

In the classroom, Mrs. Hensley wants students to do more than find the “right” answer. She loves helping them learn to think deeply, ask good questions, defend their ideas, and communicate them well. For her, literature is the perfect training ground for wrestling with enduring questions about what it means to be human, how we understand one another, and how we ought to live. She also serves as House Director, helping build community, connection, and a healthy dose of competition across the school.

Outside the classroom, she is a wife and mom who loves to travel and has somehow accumulated a collection of roughly 200 board games. She also enjoys playing—and occasionally creating—escape rooms and logic puzzles, proving that apparently she likes assigning herself homework, too.