People who have been here before.

Ryan Boomershine

For 28 years, Ryan Boomershine has served Christian schools from the inside: as a head of school, founder, operator, problem-solver, recruiter, marketer, and steady presence in seasons of growth and difficulty. He led a long-established Christian school in Michigan for 10 years, then founded and led an ACCS school in Nashville for 15 years, helping build it from scratch into a mature classical Christian school. He later served as COO at a sister classical school. He has also worked consulting and marketing with Hillsdale classical charter schools.

Ryan loves the mission of the Association of Classical Christian Schools because he loves what faithful schools can become over time: places where children are formed to love truth, goodness, and beauty under the lordship of Christ. His work with schools is practical and purposeful, bringing resources, connections, operational clarity, encouragement, and joy to leaders who are carrying heavy and worthy burdens.

Ryan and his wife, Christie, have reared four boys and a girl and are now enjoying the sweet new country of grandparenthood. They live in Columbia, Tennessee.

Nick Duncan

Nick Duncan first discovered classical Christian education 15 years ago at the recommendation of a friend, and the Lord has kept him happily in the work ever since. Most of those years have been spent serving as a Head of School, while also teaching humanities, supporting capital campaigns, and continuing the lifelong work of learning. He holds an M.St. in Classical Christian Studies from New Saint Andrews College.

The Association of Classical Christian Schools has been a home base for Nick as he has grown in his love for Christ-centered, classical education and the riches of the liberal arts tradition. He has been deeply blessed by those who pioneered this work and taught him that true education is not merely the transfer of information, but the passing on of a way of life: a Christian way of life in which students grow in wisdom and virtue as their souls are nourished on truth, goodness, and beauty.

Because of the investment he has received through ACCS and its schools, Nick counts it a joy to give back as he has opportunity. He loves helping schools strengthen their mission, encourage their leaders, and form students who are prepared to live faithfully in the world God has made.

Nick and his wife, Stacey, are raising four future men in the rolling hills of Sparta, Tennessee.

Aaron Hanson

Bio to come. Three paragraphs in the same shape as the others: where he has served and for how long, what he brings to schools, and where he and his family live.

Edwin Lang

Bio to come. Same three-paragraph shape.

Ted Trainor

Ted Trainor has given himself to the good work of classical Christian education since 1996, serving first as a lead teacher in the logic grades, then as a coach, a builder of culture, and since 1999, as a Head of School. He holds an M.A.T. in History from The Citadel, along with 80 additional hours of postgraduate study in school leadership and pastoral ministry.

Ted has carried the real work of school leadership in all its variety: training teachers, strengthening culture, launching capital campaigns, starting two rhetoric schools, developing house systems, coaching teams, and helping communities move toward shared goals. He is particularly gifted in the places where wisdom and courage are both needed: facilitating hard conversations, building teams, and helping leaders find the next faithful step.

Because Ted was mentored by others in the classical Christian school movement, he counts it a joy to give back to schools and school leaders in the Association of Classical Christian Schools. Over the last 25 years, he has counseled schools and leaders across nine states and spoken at national and regional conferences.

Thanks be to God, all four of Ted's children are graduates of classical Christian schools. Ted and his bride of 30+ years, Kathryn, live on a farm in the hills of Columbia, Tennessee.

Christie Wright

Christie Wright has labored in classical, Christian education for nearly twenty years, coming to understand that without institutional health, skill, and courage, our schools simply cannot prosper. She has assisted in founding two ACCS schools in middle Tennessee, and has experienced both the necessary work of the long haul as well as the energetic zeal of the new upstart.

Christie's experience in classical K-12 classrooms has led to a firmly rooted understanding of successful teaching and learning, healthy classroom culture, and a Biblically integrated curriculum and pedagogy. She has served primarily in the roles of Academic Dean and Assistant Head of School, where she developed the art and craft of effective problem solving, developing high quality faculty from scratch, building organizations with courage and integrity, and utilizing her mastery of rhetoric for organizational alignment and conflict resolution.

Christie enjoys sharing her experience with teachers, administrators, and board members through the ACCS national conference, as well as in on-site teacher training and consulting across the country. She lives with her husband and their six children on a working farm, the home where she first learned to grow good things and for which she primarily labors.

Grant Haun

After a career as a marriage and family counselor, Grant became a tech and operations specialist. As an enjoyer of well-designed systems, Grant fell in love with classical Christian education upon learning about its emphasis on teaching children about the interconnectedness of all truth, good, and beauty, and their authorship by God. Grant lives near Nashville with his wife and growing gaggle of children.

Caedmon Coley

Caedmon Coley is proud to claim both teaching and Classical education as his own heritage. Having been home-schooled by parents with a passion for the classics (his father majored in and taught Latin) and education (his mother earned her doctorate in writing education), he is now interested in carrying the love of learning he received from his parents to the next generation. He has a bachelor's degree in Christian ministry from the College of Athens and holds an honors certificate in liturgical music from the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, AL.

His studies in Church music at Theopolis sparked a profound interest in theological aesthetics, which has driven him to study and practice a robust, first-principles-forward approach to Graphic Design. His goal is to help Christians in different cultural and ministerial arenas embrace a design language that is both relevant and rooted in the aesthetic legacy of Christendom.

He resides in Ellsworth, ME with his beautiful Australian wife, where they both hold posts as headmasters in the newly-formed Coley School of Music and Strong Opinions™.