Michael Swartzendruber

Michael Swartzendruber has extensive work experience in language assessment, curriculum design, and editing. Michael currently holds the position of Language Assessment Specialist and Curriculum Designer at IXL Learning, where they started in 2021. Prior to that, they worked at Rosetta Stone from 2019 to 2021 in the same role. From 2015 to 2019, Michael served as an Editor and Content Strategist, and from 2008 to 2015, they worked at Rosetta Stone in various roles, including Pedagogy & Research Specialist, Editor in Chief, Associate Editor in Chief, and Editor. Michael also worked at ACT as a Transcript and Curriculum Analyst from 2000 to 2007, at the Intensive English Institute at Illinois Institute of Technology as an English Instructor in 1999, at the University of Chicago as a Team Lead | Stacks Assistant in 1999, and at the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) as an English Instructor from 1994 to 1998.

Michael Swartzendruber has a Master of Arts degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. Michael also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural History from Fresno Pacific University. Additionally, they have studied Chinese at the Dalian University of Foreign Languages, although no specific degree was mentioned.