Prior to assuming his present position, he was the social studies department chairperson at R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Indiana University – Bloomington, where his dissertation was titled “Toward a Pedagogy of the Holocaust: Perspectives of Exemplary Teachers.” David is a Fellow of the Museum Teacher Fellowship Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and participated in the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors study program in Poland and Israel. He is a Regional Museum Educator for the USHMM and has been named a Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.