Gordon College | Master of Arts in Leadership: Classical Schools | Wenham, MA (2023)
California State University Long Beach | Teaching Credential in Mathematics | Long Beach, CA (2004)
Depauw University | Bachelor of Arts: Math Major, Physics Minor | Greencastle, IN (2000)

Society for Classical Learning | Instructor for Cohort of Academic Deans (2021 - 2022)
Covenant Classical School | Algebra I, Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus; Physics (2014 - Present)
Veritas School | Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus; Physics (2010 - 2014)
Collegiate School | Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus AP; Girls Soccer, XC, and Track (2006 - 2009)
Palos Verdes High School | Geometry, Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus AP; Girls Soccer (2004 - 2006)
Richard Gahr High School | Algebra I, Geometry (2002 - 2004)

Covenant Classical School | Academic Dean, Lower School Head, Upper School Head (2014 - Present)
Veritas School | Academic Dean, Lower School Head, Math & Science Chair (2010 - 2014)
Palos Verdes High School | Research and Technology Integration Committee (2004 - 2006)

Presentation Highlights in Reverse Chronological Order

Confessing, Believing, and Expecting the Truth (SCL Retreat 2026)
Inspiring Teachers to be Lifelong Learners (SCL Fall Retreat 2023)
Building a Thriving Faculty Culture (SCL Fall Retreat 2023)
Bearing One Another’s Burdens in Community (JECA Faculty Retreat 2022)
Shepherding the Hearts and Minds of Image-Bearers (JECA Faculty Retreat 2022)
Stewarding an Ancient and Counter-Cultural Tradition (JECA Faculty Retreat 2022)
Transforming Disordered Loves (JECA Faculty Retreat 2022)
Renewing an Exemplary Commitment to Lifelong Learning (JECA Faculty Retreat 2022)
Admissions Assessment and Placement (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2022)
Hiring and Keeping Good-Fit Teachers (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Project and Change Management (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Self-Care and Personal Boundaries (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Navigating Organizational Tensions (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Observing and Evaluating Teachers (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Supporting Exceptional Students (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Critical Friends and Lesson Study (SCL Academic Dean Cohort 2021)
Classical Elements of Singapore Mathematics Curriculum and Pedagogy (CCCA 2021)
Counting Strategies, Number Bonds, and Number Composition (CCCA 2021)
Teaching from the Concrete to the Pictorial to the Abstract (WHA 2021)
Shaping the Mathematical Affections of Your Students (WHA 2021)
Teaching from the Concrete to the Pictorial to the Abstract (DOM 2021)
Awakening Wonder Through the Beauty of Mathematics (DOM 2021)
Gateways to Building Intuition and Rigor (SCL Conference 2020)
Mathematical Reasoning and Rhetoric (SCL Conference 2020)
A History of Ineffective Reform and the Revival of Our Tradition (SCL Conference 2019)
Inspiring Wonder and the Imagination (SCL Conference 2019)
Storytelling and Memorable Metaphors (TCS 2019)
Movement and Formative Liturgies (TCS 2019)
Teaching Like Socrates Through Problem Solving (SCL Preconference 2018)
The Beauty and Persuasive Power of Language (SCL Preconference 2018)
The Socratic Method | Plato’s Meno (CHCS 2017)
The Current Condition of Math Education and the Classical Response (CHCS 2017)
Preparing and Supporting Parents Through Seasons of Academic Reform (JAA 2017)
Pitfalls, Triumphs, and Measures of Success (JAA 2017)
The Mathematical Experience (CCS Symposium 2017)
Backward Curriculum Design for Humanity’s Sake (CCS Symposium 2017)
The Priority of Transforming Pedagogy (SCL Preconference 2017)
Addition, Subtraction, Bar-Modeling, and Algebraic Thinking (SCL Preconference 2017)
Classical Christian Pedagogy (CDA 2017)
Integrating Rhetoric in the Maths and Sciences (CDA 2017)
Curriculum Mapping and Conceptual Threading (CDA 2017)
Teaching Arithmetic Classically (SCL Conference 2017)
Slaying Mathematical Dragons (SCL Conference 2017)
An Introduction to Math Circles (SCL Conference 2016)
Making Math Memorable (SCL Conference 2015)
The Contagious Embodiment of Affections (SCL Retreat 2015)
A Call to Self-Giving Love (SCL Retreat 2015)
Essential Elements of Classical Christian Mathematics (SCL Conference 2014)
Proof Writing as Mathematical Rhetoric (SCL Conference 2014)
Teaching Mathematics Classically (SCL Preconference 2013)
Habitus: Rhythms and Routines of a Class Schedule (SCL Conference 2013)
The Beauty of Mathematics (TCA Conference 2012)

Transforming faculty culture
Managing workflow, projects, and change
Principles of UbD-based curriculum design and reform
Observing and evaluating teachers
Critical Friends Tuning Protocols
Teaching mathematics classically
Adopting a Singapore-based math curriculum

Regular coaching calls with teachers, chairs, academic deans, and divisional heads (since 2012)
Mentorship of emerging academic leaders and administrators (since 2021)

SCL think tank regarding the launch of accreditation services (2023)
Contributing author to SCL Thriving School Playbook standards 2-3 (2024)
Accreditation team member re Classical Commitment and School Culture (since 2025)

I am committed to lifelong learning through the regular reading of great books. Listed below are just a few of the books that have shaped me personally and professionally.

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Augustine, On Christian Teaching
Jerram Barrs, Echoes of Eden
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
James Bradley and Russel Howell, Mathematics Through the Eyes of Faith
Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education
John Byl, The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math, and Meaning
Stratford Caldecott, On the Re-Enchantment of Education
Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain, The Liberal Arts Tradition
Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Cicero, On the Orator
Harris Cooper, The Battle Over Homework
Edward P. J. Corbett, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience
Jeffry Davis and Philip Ryken, Liberal Arts for the Christian Life
Stanislas Dahaene, The Number Sense
David Dockery and Timothy George, The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking
Norman Dodge, The Brain that Changes Itself
Dunham, William, Journey through Genius
Umberto Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections
Kieran Egan, Teaching as Storytelling
Kieran Egan and Gillian Judson, Imagination and the Engaged Learner
Euclid, Elements
Anthony Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Donald Fairbairn, Understanding Language
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic
Howard Gardner, The Unschooled Mind
Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy
John Milton Gregory, The Seven Laws of Teaching
G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology
Peter Harrison, The Territories of Science and Religion
Eric A. Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write
David D. Hicks, Norms and Nobility
Arthur Holmes, Arthur, Building the Christian Academy
Russell Howell and James Bradley, Mathematics in a Postmodern Age
H. E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty
Robert and Ellen Kaplan, The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics
Robert and Ellen Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free
George Kennedy, Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition
George Kennedy, Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric
Kho, The Singapore Model Method for Learning Mathematics
Morris Kline, Morris, Why Johnny Can’t Add
Christian Kopff, Christian, The Devil Knows Latin
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Abraham Kuyper, Wisdom and Wonder
Levi-Strauss, Claude, Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Robert Littlejohn and Charles Evans, Wisdom and Eloquence
Mario Livio, Is God a Mathematician?
Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament
Liping Ma, Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics 
J. Gresham Machen, Education, Christianity and the State
Louis Markos, From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
Robert J. Marzano and Debra Pickering, Classroom Instruction that Works
John Mays,Teaching Science so that Students Learn Science
Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers
Alister McGrath, The Open Secret
Alister McGrath, The Science of God
P. B. Medawar, The Limits of Science
James Murphy, A Short History of Writing Instruction
David Naugle, Philosophy: A Student’s Guide
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
Isaac Newton, Principles of Natural Philosophy
Nicomachus of Gerasa, Introduction to Arithmetic
James Nickel, Mathematics: Is God Silent?
Albert Jay Nock, The Theory of Education in the United States
Richard Gamble, The Great Tradition
Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy
Nancy Pearcey, The Soul of Science
Josef Pieper, Leisure -  the Basis of Culture
Plato, The Republic
Plato, Meno
Plato, Theaetetus
Neil Postman, The End of Education
Vern Poythress, Redeeming Science
Vern Poythress, Redeeming Math
Richard Riesen, Sport: A Christian Critique
Richard Riesen, The Academic Imperative
Philip Graham Ryken, Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts
Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish Lessons
Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
J. Schwartz and S. Begley, The Mind and the Brain
D. Smith and S. M. Felch, Teaching and Christian Imagination
David Smith, Teaching and Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith and Learning
James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom
Richard Sorabji, Aristotle on Memory
J. Stigler and J. Hiebert, The Teaching Gap
Ida J. Stockman, Movement and Action in Learning and Development
James Taylor, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
E. Thelen and L. Smith, A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action
Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart
Stephen Turley, Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design
Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Bouldering and running
Camping and backpacking
Singing and songwriting
Reading and discussing great books
Volunteering at church