Amy Bernard – Broker, Educator, and the Newest Name on TREA’s Bench
Some instructors learned to teach after they learned real estate. Amy Bernard did it in the other order – 16 years in Texas classrooms before she ever wrote a contract. Then she built a brokerage. Now she teaches brokers.
That order matters. Anyone can put a licensee in front of a slide deck. TREA puts teachers there.
The Short Version
- TREA’s instructor for the Broker Responsibility course – the class every supervising Texas broker needs
- Broker/Owner of Mineral Grove Realty in Fort Worth – running her own brokerage since 2016, holding a Texas broker license since 2020
- 16 years teaching in Texas public schools before real estate
- Master of Educational Leadership, LeTourneau University
- Former real estate CE instructor for a national education provider
- Texas REALTORS Leadership Program graduate
- Serves on the Texas REALTORS Professional Development and Professional Standards committees, and the Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS Professional Development and MLS committees
The Longer Story
Amy spent 16 years teaching in Texas classrooms – four districts, from Azle to Mansfield – before she traded lesson plans for listing agreements. She earned her Master of Educational Leadership from LeTourneau University, then took everything she knew about how people actually learn and walked it into real estate.
Since 2016 she has run Mineral Grove Realty, her own Fort Worth brokerage, where the job is the same one every broker knows: recruit agents, train them, keep every transaction compliant, and answer for all of it. She became a broker in 2020. She has taught real estate CE professionally before – and she sits on the committees where Texas real estate education standards actually get shaped, including Texas REALTORS Professional Development and Professional Standards.
Teacher first. Broker second. Instructor because she cannot help herself.
What She Teaches at TREA
Amy is TREA’s instructor for the Broker Responsibility course – the 6-hour class TREC requires of brokers who supervise agents. It is the most consequential course in continuing education, because it is the one where the material is not trivia: it is the difference between a brokerage that runs clean and one that ends up in a TREC complaint.
A broker who runs her own shop does not teach compliance from a textbook – she teaches it from Tuesday. Supervision, transaction oversight, what TREC actually expects of a broker: Amy’s material comes from a working brokerage, not a binder.