Board of Directors
Sarah Kwilinski
President and Founding Director
Sarah Kwilinski is a certified special education teacher with over two decades of experience as a public school special education teacher and consultant. Her interest in high-quality pedagogy and curricula led her to the classical education renewal movement and the founding of Sundial Classical Farmstead, a farm school that welcomes students with special education needs. She admires Charlotte Mason and Maria Montessori and seeks to create an environment where both would feel at home. Sarah regularly speaks on the topic of school design with a focus on the integration of special education and classical education pedagogical practices. She earned a Masters of Arts in Classical Teaching from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University in 2024. Sarah lives in East Lansing, MI, with her husband and five children.
Amy Richards
Founding Director
Amy Gilbert Richards, PhD is Affiliate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA a suburb of Philadelphia. She is also a Faculty Fellow of the Templeton Honors College’s Master of Arts in Classical Teaching program. She lives in Havertown, PA. Her most recent publication is Disability and Classical Education. For more background, visit her faculty page at Templeton.
Mindi Grieser Cromwell
Founding Director
Mindi Grieser Cromwell, PhD is Chair of the Ministry and Theology Department at Central Christian College of Kansas. She lives in McPherson, KS. For more background, visit her faculty page at Central.
Sarah Scudder
Director
Sarah Scudder works as the Director’s Assistant for Nyansa Classical Community. She has 10+ years teaching elementary school phonics, math, and music at Claritas Classical Academy in Pennsylvania where she also serves on the Board of Directors and as Language Arts Chair. Over the last few years, she has developed and written multiple curricula in Bible, phonics, literature, and other areas alongside acquiring a Masters of Arts in Teaching in Classical Education from Templeton Honors College. Her most recent appearance was on the Anchored podcast where she appeared with Dr. Angel Adams Parham, author of The Black Intellectual Tradition, in an episode on Classical Education in Underserved Communities. Sarah lives in inner-city Philadelphia where she works alongside her husband in ministry at Bethel Chapel Church. They have four daughters who attend Claritas Classical Academy and keep them on their toes.
Staff
Emily Diaso
Director of Fine Arts and Teacher for Mythology, Handcrafts, Fine Arts, & Landscape Painting
Emily Diaso graduated from Hartford Art School in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in watercolor illustration through the classical realism tradition. In 2018, she completed coursework at the University of Saint Joseph for a Master of Arts in teaching. From 2017 to 2023, she worked in public and private schools as a reading and math interventionist and as a fine art and ceramics teacher, before becoming a full-time stay-at-home mom. Now that her oldest is attending SCSF, she’s eager to bring her passion for art to Sundial students!
Jacob Kantzer
Mathematics Teacher
Jacob Kantzer is in his third year of a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Secondary Education and Advanced Mathematics at Michigan State University. He has worked as a gymnastics coach, math tutor, and MSU Undergraduate Learning Assistant, receiving the 2025-2026 Award for Excellence in Teaching from the MSU Department of Mathematics. He finds the study of mathematics deeply enjoyable and believes strongly in the power of mathematics to instill students with not only problem-solving skills and perseverance, but also a sense of wonder and an appreciation of beauty. He’s from Rochester Hills, Michigan. When he’s not learning or teaching math, he enjoys practicing and coaching gymnastics, playing the piano, and singing in choirs.
Hope Roskos
Upper Elementary Teacher
Hope Roskos is a recent graduate of Grove City College, with a degree in Psychology and Biblical and Religious Studies. She especially enjoys teaching students to see the beauty of nature, as well as teaching them to love good books. She is excited by classical education’s emphasis on creating students who are not only knowledgeable but who are men and women of virtue and character who know how to use their knowledge for good! When she’s not at work, her hobbies include flower gardening, crafting of any kind, being outdoors, and spending time with her family.
Matthew Romans
Director of Common Arts and Teacher for Agriculture, Physical Education, Religious Education, Ag Science Lab, & Common Arts
Matthew Romans has worked on and managed organic farms for over 10 years. A graduate of MSU’s Organic Farmer Training Program, he has been teaching students at Sundial Classical since 2022 & joined full-time in the summer of 2025 as the Common Arts Director. Passionate about classical education, Matthew believes in providing students with meaningful agrarian experiences so they might grow in wonder and gratitude for everything they learn at school, home, and in their future vocations. He is blessed with a wonderful wife & 4 children.
Sarah Smith
Latin, Music, Philosophy, Drama, and Religious Education Teacher
Sarah Smith holds a BA in Biblical Literature with a minor in Philosophy from Olivet Nazarene University as well as an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary where she specialized in Bronze Age Archaeology, Biblical Languages, and Ancient Near Eastern History. When she wasn’t in an extremely nerdy class, you would have found her in the school’s music rooms singing with Orpheus Choir or on the stage performing the latest musical (her personal favorite was portraying Amy in Little Women).
With great enthusiasm she is starting her fourth year teaching at Sundial. When she first encountered SCSF years ago she remembers calling her husband and saying, “This is the school. We are no longer looking because we found it.” She was drawn to Sundial’s commitment to building up virtuous children. She doesn’t simply like to impart data for the sake of having knowledge. She teaches her students with the intention to build a full, thriving, life-giving world view. In addition to working at SCSF, Sarah has taught through Schole Academy and is starting her third year as a catechist for the Montessori Religious Ed program “Catechesis of the Good Shepard.”
She and her husband have three (soon-to-be-four!) children; two of which are currently Sundial students. When not at Sundial you will find Sarah belting out showtunes in her kitchen, reading Fantasy novels with her family cat, Xerxes, curled on her lap, or decorating her house for the next liturgical season.
Anna Roskos
Assistant Teacher for Lower Elementary
Anna Roskos graduated from Grove City College in May 2026 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Biblical and Theological Studies. She loves reading good books, baking, and spending time outdoors and is excited to get to do some of these activities with Sundial students!