Jon Balsbaugh has over twenty years experience as a high school and junior high teacher and currently serves as the president of Trinity Schools, a national network of classically-oriented Christian schools designed to awaken students to the reality of the human condition and the world in which they live. Before taking over as president, he served as the headmaster of Trinity School at River Ridge (Eagan, MN), designed Trinity Schools' poetry curriculum, and worked extensively in teacher training.

Mr. Balsbaugh received his master’s degree in English from the University of St. Thomas, studying the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. He has published on C.S. Lewis and is serving as the editor-in-chief of Veritas Journal, a new online journal of education and human awakening.