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Tom Johnson came to Lake Forest Academy in 2017. For the 2023-2024 school year, he will teach two sections of World History 1 and serve as the head coach of the boys swim team in the winter. In his role as Dean of Faculty, he manages faculty hiring and retention, professional development, faculty endowed funds, travel, academic department leadership, and campus housing. He also serves as a leader of the Faculty Advisory Council and the Ad Hoc Diversity Task Force.

Tom earned his bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University and his master’s in educational leadership from Villanova University. He lives on campus in Faculty Circle with his wife Leigh Morrison, one of the school’s Learning Resource Specialists, their daughter Harper, and dogs Scout and Cricket. He is proud to be a part of the global LFA community.

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David Scarisbrick joined Lake Forest Academy as an English teacher in 2023, and is teaching English 9 and AP Language and Composition this year. A native of Charlotte, N.C., David has spent the last six years teaching after having earned his master’s degree in English literature from Appalachian State University, and has spent time studying literature at St. Edmund’s Hall, a college of Oxford, and Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. His classes are built upon his love of stories and people, and he hopes to inspire a passion for thinking critically and caring sincerely about one another. David credits his own teachers for inspiring his lifelong love of learning, and he attempts daily to live by the words of Dickens: “I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.” 

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