Chelsea Speers is principal at Holt Lutheran School in Holt, Michigan. Chelsea received a Divine Call to serve Holt Lutheran School in the spring before the 2015-16 school year. Before Holt Lutheran, she taught 1st and 4th grades and served as technology coordinator at Emmanuel Lutheran School on Maui, and taught Kindergarten at St. Paul’s Lutheran in Melrose Park, Illinois. Chelsea holds undergraduate degrees from Concordia University Chicago, and a master’s degree from Concordia University Irvine. She belongs to several professional organizations, including the Lutheran Education Association (LEA), the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Association for Music Education (MENC) and Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association (MEMSPA).

Chelsea says she loves teaching in a place where she is able to share her faith and the Gospel of Christ everyday with her students. She firmly believes an education without faith is not a complete education.