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Kelly is a qualified Early Childhood Educator who currently teaches Reception. She has a passion to learn new skills and take on new challenges. Kelly is eager to engage children with their learning and would love them to be enthusiastic with learning HASS ( especially History).

Britta is a passionate educator who has used her vocation to develop her understanding and teaching of language, culture and anthropology. Her love of history developed at school where hungry for more knowledge and curious about what makes us Australian she ventured to Europe, developed a very different perspective and then returned home to dedicate her time to studying education and became an educational leader in multiple roles across SA. Britta wishes to make SA history more integral to daily teaching and learning and to ignite a curiosity in the students whom she works with. Her favourite books are Mediations Marcus Aurelius and The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Elspeth is currently the Leader of Humanities and Social Sciences at Golden Grove High School, and from 2022 will be joining Seaton High School's teaching team. She was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2019 to investigate how to boost learning about South Australian history under Australia's national curriculum. Elspeth a strong interest in connecting SA's history community with the classroom, having made a career change from being a museum curator to an educator.

Alex has thoroughly enjoyed a career working with young people from Preschool to Primary School, across diverse settings, within the classroom and beyond. She has been at her current school, Seymour College, for a number of years and over the past 4 years has worked as an English specialist. Alex is also a Year 3 Learning Mentor and teaches HASS, Science and Wellbeing. She has had a lifelong passion for history and its influence on our society. Alex relishes sharing this passion with her students by initiating and completing research projects, conducting local history tours, reaching out to key community members and visiting South Australia's museums and historical sites. She looks forward to learning so much more in this role with the History Trust.

Phoebe is the Senior Leader of English, HASS and Literacy at Seaton High School. She has worked in the public education system for thirteen years, and is passionate about equity of access to curriculum for all students. She uses her leadership role to encourage real life approaches to the teaching of History, and is eager for the opportunity to work with the History Trust of SA as part of that mission.

Henry is a Modern History teacher and Leader of Learning at Caritas College in Port Augusta. Having also grown up in regional South Australia, Henry is passionate about supporting regional student access authentic learning experiences and find joy in life-long learning.

Tyson is the Humanities Faculty Leader at University Senior College specialising in the Senior Secondary years. He has a passion for all things humanities, but a particular love for Politics and History and getting students to engage with their civic lives and local history. A key part of his teaching is getting beyond the classroom and taking advantage of the museums, organisations and experts around us.

Martin is an Assistant Principal and primary school teacher with over 20 years of experience. He is passionate about teaching HASS subjects and is eager to contribute to the development of high quality lessons and experiences in this area.

Ben is a Senior History and humanities teacher at Adelaide Botanic High School. He is passionate about teaching content that connects young learners to the ways that history can help us better understand the world we live in today. He's keen to find more ways that schools can engage with the South Australian history in their community.