Mark Langley, our Founding Headmaster, holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College. He taught at Trivium School for 12 years, where he also directed the all-school chorus. In addition to his teaching duties, Mr. Langley served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, and was the acting Academic Dean and Director of Fund-Raising. Mark also served three years as the Curriculum Development Manager and Education Consultant for Advantage Schools, Inc., a national charter school management organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. In Clinton, Massachusetts Mark was the Founding Choir Director of the Schola Cantorum Sancti Joanni and the Saint John’s Children’s Schola. Still hoping for a resurgence in Renaissance sacred polyphony and Gregorian chant, Mark and his wife Stephanie enjoy liturgical music and singing with their nine children in Cleveland Heights.

Mary Sand, a founding teacher and school registrar, joined The Lyceum in 2003. After studying the classical liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College, Mary taught at Trivium School in Massachusetts for two years. She then studied music at MidAmerica Nazarene University near her hometown in Kansas. While teaching part-time K-8 music at a Catholic school, Mary also found time to tutor high school students in Algebra, Latin and English. As Mary and her husband, Joe, enjoy the delights of a growing family, they love taking long walks through the beautiful neighborhood surrounding their home in Cleveland Heights

Samuel Schmitt joined the Lyceum as a full time faculty member in 2006. Sam earned his Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College, his Master’s Degree in Liturgical Music and Organ, his Doctorate in Musicology, and finally a Master’s degree in Library Science from The Catholic University of America. While pursuing his studies Sam was an assistant organist at the National Shrine of The Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. and an assistant organist at St Matthew’s Cathedral, also in Washington. Before entering graduate school, Sam taught at Trivium School in Massachusetts for three years. Aside from his professional expertise as a musician, he also embodies classical education in his knowledge of History, Latin, Mathematics, Theology, and Literature. Sam and his wife Jana, a founding Lyceum teacher, reside in Cleveland Heights.

Jean Henderson brings nearly twenty-five years of teaching experience to The Lyceum. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Religious Education from The College of Mount St. Joseph and has received training at Kent State University for teachers of chemistry. She served as a teacher of language arts, religion, math and music for seven years in Catholic schools in Indiana and Ohio. She then turned her attention to the education of her own children and is one of the pioneers of the home schooling movement. At The Lyceum she has taught Latin I, 7th and 8th grade mathematics, and geography. Mrs. Henderson has recently gravitated towards the field of special education, and has attended workshops and presentations in the areas of the autism spectrum and nonverbal learning disorders. Jean, her husband John, and their eleven children love to travel (they have visited 44 of the 48 contiguous states as well as a few Canadian provinces!). Both husband and wife also love to garden at their home in nearby Solon.

Caitlyn Murphy is a recent graduate of The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire where she majored in English Literature. At Thomas More she took a profound interest in Catholic poetry (especially that of Gerard Manly Hopkins) as well as the study of Greek, translating parts of Plato's Republic, Homer's Iliad, Odyssey and The Gospel of John. A gifted artist, Caitlyn also studied drawing at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy. As an alumna of Trivium School, in Massachusetts, Miss Murphy is excited about teaching at The Lyceum, a school so very close in spirit to her own Alma Mater.

Ted Smith earned a B.A. from The University of Dallas. Returning to The Lyceum for a second year of teaching Mr. Smith brings a great love for the study of Mathematics, teaching Calculus and Advanced Algebra. Mr. Smith also brings a special love for the study of classical languages, teaching Latin II and the higher levels of Greek at the Lyceum. A resident of Cleveland Heights, Mr. Smith occasionally delights his Greek students with homemade brownies.