A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
A naturally rebellious child, union president and arts education supervisor Dr. Pam Farrell remembers ending up in the principal’s office often. Nowadays, we would say Pam was “inquisitive.”
Little did she realize that this streak would serve her well as a union leader decades later.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pompton Plains, N.J., Pam Uhre and her four siblings grew up in what she calls a traditional Catholic family and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Two of the five children also attended Catholic colleges. Pam went to Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
Pam loved art, but when she suggested attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York or an art college in California, her mother said there was no career in it and put her foot down. So off she went to Mary Baldwin. She majored in education merely as a backup.
“I remember our third-grade teacher telling us there were only three things a woman could be, a nurse, a teacher or an airline stewardess,” she says. “So I picked stewardess, even though I never did it.”
After graduating from college, she stayed far away from teaching and went to work managing restaurants in Alexandria, Virginia, while doing display windows on the side.
She created windows for Macy’s and other stores. She used to say, “I’m Rhoda!” referring to the adventurous character Rhoda from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Happy though she was, she sought a change nine years later and earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first teaching job with Arlington Public Schools was two days a week, allowing her to keep “doing windows on the side.”
Next, she taught visual arts full time from pre-K through fifth grade and stayed for six years. She says, “Arlington is unusually arts-oriented, very supportive. The approach is interdisciplinary.”
The work was intensely demanding, with no downtime. As many as 550 students came to her over the course of a week. Some of the work, such as ceramics, was physically demanding but worth it.
When she became the arts education specialist in the central office in 2000, she jumped at the opportunity and stayed in the job for eight years.
In 2008, she earned her second master’s degree from the University of Virginia in supervision and administration, and she was named arts education supervisor for Arlington Public Schools. The job combined so many things, including arts and leadership. For the past 19 years, she has hired and developed highly effective staff, provided professional development in arts education and helped build a strong sense of collegiality across the district. The program is nationally recognized for music and won the NAMM Award for music education.
In 2022, she earned her doctorate in educational policy and leadership from George Washington University.
