Edington Scholars Teachers
Joshua Appel
Joshua Appel has led a double-career life as both college professor and pastoral assistant/pastor for 16 years, a happy coincidence of his passion for the educational nature of pastoral care and the pastoral nature of education. His own education was fairly non-traditional: home educated, joined the Audubon society at aged 10, ministered to juvenile delinquents while still a teenager, bits of grad school before college, and later a B.A. in Liberal Arts and M.A. in Christian Thought. He is an avid audiophile, lover of music & food & wine, father of six, husband of Sara, and currently serves as a Fellow of Humanities at New Saint Andrews College and Pastor at Trinity Reformed Church.
Lisa Crawford
Lisa Crawford was born in Garden Grove, California and moved to the Moscow area 2 years ago. She studied science ant CSU Long Beach and UC Irvine and has enjoyed teaching science in both public school and home school settings at all levels. She homeschooled her 3 children for 11 years and has joined the White Horse Hall teaching staff these past two years. Lisa enjoys hiking, camping, and enjoying God's creation.
Ryan Handermann
Ryan Handermann has been teaching Latin and Humanities for 8 years. He taught four years at an ACCS school, three years at White Horse Hall co-op, two years online with the Davenant Latin Institute and others. He has taught a wide variety of students, ranging from rambunctious kindergarteners, to recovering drug addicts, to seminary professors (those are the easy students). He also serves as a pastoral assistant at Trinity Reformed Church and has a beautiful wife and four excitable children. He is extremely grateful to his parents for homeschooling him back in North Carolina, and his high school co-op teachers who inspired him to love people and pursue learning. He has a B.A and M.A. from New Saint Andrews College.
Courtney Skeen
Courtney Skeen grew up under the enormous and ever-sunny New Mexico skies with the Rocky Mountains in her backyard, eating green chile on everything and loving cozy, rainy days. It was Wes Callihan's online classes that first introduced Courtney to classical education and the Great Books. She has since earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture and M.A. in Theology and Letters, both from New Saint Andrews College. She currently works full time at a local tech company and part time coordinating events for Trinity Reformed Church. Courtney enjoys creating order, making beauty, being an aunt, wearing black, and exploring new places and ideas, but nothing makes her happier than to have people in her home to feed them and talk about all the big and the small things in life.