Barbara Jones

Barbara, a career teacher, has taught children and adults in the USA, Mexico, and South America. She grew up in Oklahoma, but as an adult her love for travel took her throughout the United States and Latin America. For many years she and her family lived in Mexico, Peru, and Paraguay, and traveled extensively

in South America. Her first hand knowledge as a 'foreigner' taught her the need to respect cultural diversity. 

EXPERIENCE

Barbara has told stories and given workshops in conferences, libraries, schools, and churches throughout the USA, including, Texas Foreign Language Association, Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Southern Conference on Language Teaching, U.C.O. Multicultural Institute, Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association, Red Dirt Book Festival, Festival of the Arts, and the Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival. 

She is a board member of Territorial Tellers, state storytelling guild. She served on the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association board, Oklahoma

Language Teachers Leadership Team, and is past president of Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Foreign Languages.

AUTHOR 

Her books include: Pisadas Por El Peru, World Languages - Group Projects, Talking Finger Puppet Plays, In the Footsteps of the Pioneers and Pisadas

de Devotion.  Her book, Rolling Heads and Other Tales to Tell, is a medley of stories of Spanish explorers and folk tales of the native people of the Americas. She is now branching out into historical romance.

She joins Whorl Books through its Affiliate Author Promotion program.