Grace Gordon is a lead teacher for the Explorers Program at Columbus Academy. She served as team leader for the Explorers from 2020-24, after previously working as an associate teacher and After School Program teacher during the 2018-19 school year. Earlier in her career, Grace was a substitute teacher at Columbus Academy from 2010-14 while pursuing her master’s degree in Education at Ashland University. A magna cum laude graduate of Miami University with a degree in Geography and Environmental Science, Grace went on to spend several seasons as a park ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where she taught visiting school groups about the natural world. She is also the founder and lead instructor of the Spring Valley Nature Studies Camp in Granville. In recognition of her dedication to environmental education, Grace received the Environmental Education Council of Ohio’s Outstanding Environmental Educator in Formal Education Award in 2023.
Grace’s favorite thing about Columbus Academy
“I love being part of a community that is a model of kindness and respect toward all people.”
Little-known fact
“I helped to author a grant for half-a-million dollars to preserve 45 acres of land in Granville, Ohio, and now it is a nature preserve called Spring Valley Nature Preserve. I also started a small summer camp on the same land several years later.”
Favorite food
Watermelon
Grace was featured in the Spring 2020 issue of our school magazine.
- B.A. Miami University , Geography and Environmental Science
- M.Ed. Ashland University , 21st Century Skills
