John Lee is Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences in the College of Education at North Carolina State University. He was an author of the College, Career and Civic Life Framework for Standards in Social Studies (http://socialstudies.org/c3) and is a founder and co-director of the C3 Teachers project (http://c3teachers.org). He has authored or co-authored several books books including, Inquiry-based Practice in Social Studies Education: Understanding the Inquiry Design Model; Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers; Teaching the C3 Framework; Visualizing Elementary Social Studies Methods; and Research on Technology in Social Studies; and Guiding Learning with Technology.

Chauncey Monte-Sano is a social studies educator and researcher. Her scholarship focuses on (a) supporting adolescents’ disciplinary thinking, talk, and writing as they investigate complex historical and social issues with primary and secondary sources; (b) understanding how social studies teachers learn to center and support students’ thinking and talk through an inquiry approach to instruction; (c) understanding how students and teachers take up curriculum materials designed to support this work. She conducts her research in partnership with teachers and students, which results in practical curriculum, teacher education, and professional development designs and materials to support inquiry- and justice-oriented social studies education. Monte-Sano leads the Teaching Reasoning and Inquiry Project in Social Studies (TRIPSS) lab, which has most recently developed the Read.Inquire.Write. curriculum for 6th-8th grade social studies and the Learning Labs for Social Studies professional development model (based on the University of Washington’s Learning Lab model).

Kathy Swan is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Swan was awarded UKY’s Great Teacher Award in 2021 and has been a four-time recipient of the National Technology Leadership Award in Social Studies Education, innovating with inquiry-based curricula. Dr. Swan served as the project director and lead writer of the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), the national standards for social studies. She has co-written a number of best-selling books including Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education: The Inquiry Design Model (2017); The Inquiry Design Model: Building Inquiries in Social Studies (2018), and; Blueprinting an Inquiry-Based Curriculum: Planning with the Inquiry Design Model (2019). Swan works extensively with museums and other educational institutions including the Smithsonian American History Museum, Smithsonian American Indian Museum, National Geographic, Library of Congress, and the Southern Poverty Law Center where she consults on building inquiry-based initiatives for teachers. She is the co-creator and co-director of C3 Teachers and Making Inquiry Possible (makinginquirypossible.org) where she facilitates networks of educators around the world who are helping social studies and civic education become relevant in K-12 schools.