Trinity Welcomes New Faculty & Staff for the 2025-26 School Year

Mrs. Jordyn Krier will be joining Trinity as our next Assistant Principal. Mrs. Krier began her teaching career as a 4th-grade teacher at Northwest Lutheran School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after graduating from Concordia University Wisconsin in 2016. She served as a 5th-grade math teacher and grade-level lead at St. Marcus Lutheran School from 2018-2025. Mrs. Krier has coached volleyball, cross country, and track. She was also involved with organizing school trips and leadership service hours for middle school.

At Trinity, Mrs. Krier hopes to grow relationships with students and families. She aims to bring her knowledge of urban education and social-emotional learning to the classrooms and continue to grow the culture of excellence at Trinity. Jordyn seeks to grow her own leadership skills by learning from the awesome team and leaders in this new avenue of education.

This year, Mrs. Krier will finish her master’s degree from Concordia University Chicago in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in Trauma and Resilience-Based Learning. She is most excited about being able to implement brain-based strategies and support teachers and students in a variety of ways.

Jordyn lives in Shorewood with her husband Joe. She enjoys reading, traveling, and hanging out with her niece and nephews.

Mr. John Gehm joins our middle school team as our second science teacher! This will be John’s 12th year teaching, all at Lutheran schools. His first Call was to St. John’s in Lombard, IL where he spent 4 years teaching 4th grade. Throughout his teaching career, John has spent equal time teaching 4th grade and middle school, most recently at St. John’s in Glendale, WI. Outside of the classroom, John has spent time as a coach, club leader, small group leader, curriculum researcher, and interim principal.

John says that his passion for teaching is best exemplified when “…young scholars make connections between Christ and the scientific world and when students develop their leadership skills and begin to realize their potential to have a positive impact.”

John lives with his wife, Stephanie, and has four daughters (Ella, Flora, Georgie, and Wilhelmina). They live in Milwaukee and enjoy going to the Zoo or The Domes, swimming (especially at a lake), and going to sporting events.

Mrs. Anna Dhuse joins Trinity’s middle school math team and will also lead our Chapel Choir. Mrs. Dhuse graduated from CUW with a degree in Lutheran Elementary Education in 2021. She began her teaching career teaching 3rd grade at Good Shepherd Lutheran School in Collinsville, IL. She moved to Green Bay to teach 4th grade at Pilgrim Lutheran for one year before returning to Collinsville to teach 5th grade. She loves the unique blessing of having faith-centered conversations and connecting with students in the Lutheran education setting. Mrs. Dhuse is excited to be teaching middle school math this year and loves the challenge of creating engaging math activities that apply to the real world.

On coming to Trinity, Mrs. Dhuse says, “I’m looking forward to joining the vibrant and growing community at Trinity and can’t wait to connect with families and continue to grow in faith and knowledge of God’s creation together!”

Mrs. Dhuse loves to hike, go to the zoo, and do puzzles in her spare time. Anna’s husband, Chris, recently received his first pastoral call to St. John’s West Bend, and they are thrilled to be moving back to Wisconsin to join such a strong community of churches and schools!

Mr. David Wells will join Trinity’s fine arts team, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience! He will be leading Trinity’s Concert Choir, assisting with Concert Band sectionals, and teaching individual piano lessons.

Mr. Wells earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in music education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught music in the public schools of Janesville, Wisconsin, and Elmhurst and rural Kankakee County, Illinois. He has been a member of the Kettle Moraine Symphony for approximately 20 years and has directed numerous community musicals, most recently The Music Man with the West Bend Musical Masquers. He was also a longtime member of the Moraine Chorus and director of the Moraine Symphonic Band. He is a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in West Bend and plays keyboard and does backup vocals with their worship team. He lives in Jackson with his wife, Susan, and son Jeremy.

Mr. Wells says, “I believe music is one of the most remarkable gifts God has given us. But like so many gifts it can be used to bless people and to glorify God, or it can be squandered, and therefore we should view it as a stewardship. My goal for the Trinity students is for them to learn to appreciate the joy and beauty that can be expressed in music of all types, and to put it to its highest use, whether as singers or instrumentalists.”

Mrs. Brenda Szelmeczki joins Trinity as our newest private piano instructor. Mrs. Szelmeczki holds a bachelor’s (University of Mississippi) and master’s degree (University of Alabama) in music, piano performance.

After college, Mrs. Szelmeczki taught piano at the Adelaide Banaszynski School for Piano Studies in Milwaukee. She then went on to serve as instructor of piano and music appreciation at Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi. While in Mississippi, she also served as the director of the Mississippi Keyboard Camp. Currently, Mrs. Szelmeczki enjoys teaching private piano lessons, performing, and serving as a musician at her church. She has extensive experience as a church pianist and as a choral and instrumental accompanist.

Mrs. Szelmeczki is excited to teach piano lessons at Trinity this year to provide the opportunity for students to discover the joy of playing music. She plans to focus on an individualized approach to help each student discover the wonders of God’s gift of music.

Mrs. Szelmeczki is married to Lt. Steven Szelmeczki, a chaplain in the U.S. Navy, who currently serves the Lake Michigan Coast Guard. They have four children. Mrs. Szelmeczki enjoys being a homeschool mom, spending time in nature, and supporting all the arts.

Mrs. Lindsey Atwood joins a thriving arts program at Trinity and will teach Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Mrs. Atwood graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 2008, with a double major in elementary education and Spanish Education, and later received a post-baccalaureate in ESL and bilingual education. She taught students in first grade through high school in the Milwaukee area in both public and private schools. She had been homeschooling two of her four children for the past seven years before enrolling her three oldest children at Trinity this past school year. During her years as a homeschool parent, she was a tutor with a homeschool group called Classical Conversations where one of the subjects she taught was art. She enjoys incorporating art history and literature into her lesson plans to make art fun and meaningful.

Mrs. Atwood wants kids to be able to express themselves and explore their God-given talents. She is most looking forward to getting to know the students by name and establishing a good teacher/student relationship with them as we have fun making art together this year.

Her husband Ryan and her four kids, Naomi (7th), Lilia (6th), Ian (4th) and Aurelia (4K) live in Glendale and together they enjoy worshiping the Greatest Artist of all, Creator God! She also loves singing, kayaking on Lake Michigan, traveling and spending time with International students.

Jessica Kloss joins Trinity after six years as a Spanish and choir teacher at Heritage Christian in New Berlin. Ms. Kloss loves being part of a school community and building relationships, especially all the ministry opportunities and special events that happen outside of the classroom. She is excited to support teachers, students, and families in the front office position.

Some of her favorite school-based activities include vocal directing musical theater, leading clubs such as creative writing and escape room camp, putting together chapel services, and keeping the scorebook at basketball and volleyball games. Ms. Kloss’s academic background is in music, counseling ministry, and Spanish education. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing fiction and playing the piano. She lives with her cat Pistachio and is hoping to become a foster parent soon.

What I’m looking forward to most in this job is continuing to be part of a Christian school community while being able to focus more on schoolwide projects / events and helping out behind the scenes. I’m excited to get to know everyone and get involved in the ministries of the school/church.