Deana Swanson

Deana currently teaches at Maple Grove Mennonite Academy. She has been a teacher in some capacity for over forty years, spending seventeen years teaching in Christian day schools, twelve years homeschooling, and thirty years instructing school music programs. Deana holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Texas at Arlington and completed the teacher’s certification program in secondary English education at Valdosta State University. She has sung with the Oasis Chorale, the Lancaster Meistersingers, and the Eternal Praise Chorale. She has also been a member of the Anabaptist Orchestra for the past twelve years. Deana enjoys art, reading, writing, spending time with her family, and composing Scripture memory songs to help her students memorize scripture. Deana lives in Terre Hill, Pennsylvania with her husband, Jeff, two of her five children, and three cats.