Wes Swing
Latin, Greek, and Literature Teacher
Wes has a degree in Latin and Classical Studies from the College of William and Mary. Since 2005, he has taught Latin, History, and Literature in independent school classrooms, private and small groups with San Francisco homeschool students, and online with students throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Wes developed a love for the classics in high school, when he had the opportunity to spend a summer studying Latin in Rome. His current interests include: the poetry of Ovid and Catullus, mythology, and epic poetry. Wes also performs and composes for cello.
Andrew Alwood
philosophy teacher
Andrew has a doctorate and master’s degree in philosophy from Cornell University. He studied philosophy and classics at the University of Florida, where he learned Latin and Greek and read Ovid, Livy, Virgil, Petronius, Homer, and Plato. He has continued to read Greek and Roman philosophers in their original languages ever since. He finds that Greek history is best enjoyed while traveling in Greece.
Since 2009, Andrew has taught courses in ancient philosophy, and in ethics and moral philosophy. He enjoys bringing new life to old ideas.
Caroline Spurr
Latin TeachER
Caroline is a Ph.D. student in Classical Studies at Boston University, specializing in Roman literature and Latin pedagogy. She holds an M.A. in Teaching Latin and Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classical Studies and a B.S. in Neuroscience from The College of William and Mary. She has years of experience teaching at both the secondary and undergraduate level and is a licensed educator in Latin and Classical Humanities grades 5-12, with teaching certification valid in 30 states.
She is passionate about comprehension-based language teaching and emerging trends in Latin pedagogy based on linguistics and second-language acquisition research. She has presented her own research at conferences around the globe and is the author of several forthcoming Latin novellas.