Saint Boniface Academy

Tyler Shelley has been married to her husband, Stephen, since 2015. They have three children: Harper, Cameron, and Natalie. Tyler has a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction, both from Emporia State University. She has taught in public schools, homeschooled her children, and led the Classical Christian Co-op at Exodus Church. Her favorite part of teaching is getting to know students and helping foster a love of learning. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys reading, cooking and baking, singing, and spending time with family and friends. She is thrilled to be a part of the Saint Boniface Academy team and is looking forward to a great year!

The Fine Arts are the creative disciplines—such as music, poetry, drama, and the plastic arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture—that exist for the contemplation and expression of truth, beauty, and goodness, reflecting the divine harmony of God’s creation.

The Common Arts are the practical, hands-on disciplines—such as agriculture, craftsmanship, homemaking, auto repair, health, etc.—that train the body and will in stewardship, discipline, and love of neighbor. Rooted in the classical Christian vision of education, they complement the liberal arts by uniting wisdom with skill, thought with action, and faith with daily work in God’s created world.

The Great Conversation is the enduring dialogue of Western civilization’s greatest minds, in which each work of philosophy, literature, science, and art speaks to, challenges, and refines the ideas of the past — a tradition into which every new generation is invited to enter. In classical Christian education, the Scriptures are the guide and eternally enduring voice of God, guiding the great conversation to the right answers as well as the right questions.

In Augustine’s view, sin is not simply loving the wrong things, but loving good things in the wrong order or to the wrong degree, while virtue is rightly ordered love (ordo amoris). To live virtuously is to love God above all, love one’s neighbor as oneself, and love everything else according to its true worth in God’s creation. Rightly ordered loves help us know what to prioritize when two good things seem to compete for our devotion or affection.