Amie Trahan

Mrs. Amie M. Trahan grew up in Slidell, LA, and began college in Lafayette, LA, at the University of Southwest Louisiana, where she met her future husband, Matthew Trahan. In 1995 they moved to the Houma/Thibodaux area with the Louisiana State Police. Mrs. Trahan was an outstanding 1997 graduate of Nicholls
State University. In 1998, they welcomed their daughter, Morgaine Lois. Morgaine is a masterful artist, and she graduated in 2022 from the Savannah College of Art and Design, majoring in Costume Design and minoring in Fashion Design. She now resides in Orlando, Florida, where she works for Disney Cruise Lines as
a costume assistant.

Mrs. Trahan has 22 years of teaching experience in public and Catholic schools. She is a highly qualified middle school reading and writing teacher and a high school English I-IV teacher, certified in English, grades 7-12. Additionally, she is an experienced high school Speech I and II teacher and middle school Social Studies teacher.

Beginning in 2013, Mrs. Trahan became a national presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research (BER). She traveled for five years, presenting writing and reading strategies to fellow English teachers in twenty states. It was a lifetime opportunity, allowing her to fulfill a lifelong dream.

In November of 2021, Holy Trinity Academy board president, John Casey, one of Mrs. Trahan’s former students, invited her to a meeting with the founders of Holy Trinity Academy. From there, Amie began to read and learn about classical education and soon joined the board as its Curriculum Coordinator.

In July of 2022, she was chosen, along with twenty other teachers and administrators from across the country, to be a student in the Institute of Catholic Liberal Education’s second cohort of the National Catholic Educator Formation and Credential Program. This credential program prepares educators to infuse a deeply Catholic philosophy and practice of education into their teaching. In this 18-month program, Amie has been immersed in a five-pillar integrated course that includes the following topics: The Virtuous Classroom; Pedagogy: Leading From Wonder To Wisdom; Trivium: The Mastery of Language; Quadrivium: The Harmony of Number; Faith and Reason: The Foundations of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. She will complete the course in December of this year. This program brings the formation of Catholic teachers back under the guidance of the Church. For Mrs. Trahan, learning these principles has given her a whole new perspective on what teaching should look like. During a recent interview with The Pillar, she articulated how it has affected her:

“Learning about classical Catholic education has really just rekindled that fire - wanting to bring children into that environment so they can learn and understand salvation history and how everything works together and creates this beautiful arc, for them to have a greater understanding of why they learn what they learn, instead of just individual subjects that are not connected.”

Mrs. Trahan sums up her experience over the last two and a half years in this way:

“I have been immensely blessed to work with this brilliant, supportive Board of Trustees and Head of School. I am humbled by their devotion to the vision and mission of our school and the tenacity they possess to see our school come to fruition. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity and experience to participate in this important and impactful mission.”