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Dario Giomi serves as the Facilities Manager and Security Lead at The Ambrose School’s North Campus in Garden City, Idaho, where he has helped develop a practical, scalable operations and security plan tailored to a classical Christian school setting. Before stepping into school safety work, he spent five years in the U.S. Army, deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq and attaining the rank of Sergeant, followed by fourteen years as a police officer, including assignments on SWAT, a gang unit, and as a firearms instructor. Dario is currently completing his B.S. in Criminal Justice at Boise State University. He and his wife, a nursing professor, have two sons at Ambrose and are members of Eagle Christian Church. He is passionate about helping classical Christian schools become both warmly hospitable and wisely prepared — schools that are prepared, not afraid, as they protect Christ’s little ones.
This session connects classical Christian goals of cultivating wisdom and virtue to the everyday work of keeping a campus safe. Using The Ambrose School as a case study, it walks through how one school organized safety roles, wrote simple procedures, and trained staff in a way that fits a Christ-centered classical culture — helping schools be prepared, not afraid.
This session will connect basic principles of classical Christian education—ordered love, prudence, courage, and faithful stewardship—to the everyday work of keeping a campus safe. Security is not presented as a separate “tactical” world, but as one way we love our neighbors and protect the children God has entrusted to us so they are free to worship, learn, and study without distraction.
Attendees will see how one classical Christian school has actually organized its safety roles, written simple procedures, and trained staff and volunteers in a way that fits a warm, Christ centered culture. We will talk honestly about what has worked well and what we have had to change. Participants will come away with:
• A clearer way to talk about security with boards, faculty, and parents that avoids both fear and complacency.
• Concrete examples of basic procedures (entry/exit, visitor management, drills, incident response at a simple level) that they can adapt to their own campuses.
• Practical ideas for where to start if they have very little in place, and how to tighten and improve systems if they already have a team or plan on paper.
The goal is not to turn schools into fortresses, but to help them take wise, realistic steps toward being prepared, not afraid.
Dario Giomi serves as the Facilities Manager and Security Lead at The Ambrose School’s North Campus in Garden City, Idaho, where he has helped develop a practical, scalable operations and security plan tailored to a classical Christian school setting. Before stepping into school safety work, he spent five years in the U.S. Army, deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq and attaining the rank of Sergeant, followed by fourteen years as a police officer, including assignments on SWAT, a gang unit, and as a firearms instructor. Dario is currently completing his B.S. in Criminal Justice at Boise State University. He and his wife, a nursing professor, have two sons at Ambrose and are members of Eagle Christian Church. He is passionate about helping classical Christian schools become both warmly hospitable and wisely prepared — schools that are prepared, not afraid, as they protect Christ’s little ones.