Andrew Swan

Andrew Swan

Andrew is an 8th grade Social Studies teacher at Bigelow Middle School in Newton MA, where he has worked for 16 years. He is a member of the iCivics Educator Network and a co-director of The SSChat Network which leads weekly Twitter conversations at #sschat. Andrew has presented at the annual conferences for NCSS, the Flipped Learning Network, and NELMS; co-presented a 2-day workshop at EDCO in Burlington MA; and was invited to join the roundtable discussion "Podcasts As Pedagogy" at the 2020 American Historical Association conference. In October 2019, Andrew's classroom was featured in a Boston Globe Magazine article by Linda K Wertheimer. When he grows up, Andrew might finally start his own podcast.

David Olson

David Olson

David teaches at James Madison Memorial High School in Madison, WI. Beyond teaching AP U.S. Government and Politics, Criminal Justice, and other Social Studies courses David helps spread his passion for civic education by serving on the iCivics Educator Network, the Teacher Advisory Board for the National Constitution Center, and the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies (WCSS) Executive Board. In 2017, David was chosen as the WCSS High School Teacher of the Year and as a PBS Digital Innovator and Innovator All-Star in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, David was awarded the WCSS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2020, David was named to the National Humanities Center Teacher Advisory Council and he was awarded the Outstanding Voter Service Award from the League of Women Voters of Dane County.