Sean Muggivan, LCSW

Teacher | Social Data Scientist | AI Tinkerer

I'm a teacher with 10+ years in the classroom and a background in social work. I build tools for education—not to sell, not to scale, but because teachers have ideas that can help their students, and those ideas should exist. I'm not trying to bring your school products. I'm trying to bring your school capabilities.

AI means not having to compromise.

You don't make do with some company's vision. You get together with your team and you build exactly what you need.

A school shouldn't wait for a vendor to build something close enough. When teachers say "I wish we had a tool that did X," the answer should be "let's build it"—not "let's see what's on the market." That's what bringing capability means.

The sudden rise of AI in education has left many educators uncertain about how these tools fit into classrooms built on authorship, assessment, and accountability. My work represents a deliberate alternative to the dominant, chatbot-driven model of classroom AI.

Students complete their work first—designing surveys, conducting interviews, analyzing data, and writing responses—before AI is introduced at the end of the process. In most cases, the AI is run once, as an analytic instrument rather than a conversational partner.

Students remain the architects of their thinking. The AI acts as a Scientist—examining evidence, identifying patterns, and returning bounded results. The goal is not to avoid AI, but to integrate it in a way that preserves clarity, ownership, and trust in student work.

Experience & Credentials

Work Experience

Teaching
12th Grade Math Teacher
New Harmony High
2023/24 - 2025/26
Algebra 1 Teacher
Morris Jeff High School
2022/23
Part Time Humanities Teacher
EQA Schools: NOAHS Campus
2021/22
6th Grade Math Teacher
KIPP Believe
2020/21
Inclusion Math Teacher
Lafayette Academy Charter School
2017-2020
7th/8th Grade Math Teacher
Lawrence D. Crocker
2017
Social Work
PRN Social Worker
River Oaks Hospital Detox Ward
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Intensive Case Management
RSD/OPSB Youth Opportunity Center
July 2015 - Apr 2016
Multisystemic Therapist (MST)
Jefferson Parish Human Service Authority
Apr 2013 - July 2015
PSH Community Support Specialist
NoAIDS Task Force
2012 - 2013
Counselor, Medically Supported Detox
Odyssey House Louisiana
June - Dec 2011
Death Penalty Mitigation
  • State v. Wells
  • State v. Amison
  • State v. Barnes

Education

Louisiana State University
Master's in Social Work (2011)
Internships:
AMIKids - Baton Rouge (1 year)
Capital Area Recovery Program / CASA (1 year)
University of New Orleans
Bachelor of Liberal Arts

License & Certification

LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
License #11349
Louisiana Board of Social Work Examiners
Teaching Certification (In Progress)

One course remaining with iTeach Louisiana to complete permanent high school math certification.

  • Passed Praxis tests for middle/high school math
  • Completed student teaching and observation
Youcubed Explorations in Data Science

Completed Stanford University's Youcubed teacher training for Explorations in Data Science (Units 1-8), Summer 2024.

Operation Spark - Level 1 IBC Certified Instructor

Certified to independently teach Operation Spark's Fundamentals of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript curriculum.

  • Completed 9-day teacher training (Summer 2025)
  • Scored 93%+ on Level 1 Industry Based Credential exam
  • Approved to deliver curriculum leading to statewide IBC
Project Portfolio

What I Have Built

AiEmpoweredU.org

Helping students and young entrepreneurs establish professional online presence through custom domains and static sites—no expensive subscriptions or corporate gatekeeping.

  • AI-assisted workflows for building real websites
  • Custom domain registration and hosting
  • Lightweight, fast, low-maintenance static sites
  • Scalable system for schools and organizations

aiempoweredu.org

MuggsOfDataSci.net

Educational platform teaching data science, AI, and analytics skills through hands-on curriculum.

  • Lab environment for data science activities
  • Assessment practice aligned with ACT standards
  • Teacher dashboard and login system
  • Data Science Final Project pathway

muggsofdatasci.net — In production and daily use

MuggsOfMastery.net

LEAP assessment preparation platform for Louisiana students, focusing on US History examinations.

  • Baseline data collection for constructed responses
  • Practice portals for skill development
  • Teacher portal for educators

muggsofmastery.net

demo.MuggsOfDataSci.net

Public demo of the Social Data Science curriculum platform.

demo.muggsofdatasci.net

IN-NOLA.org

Irish Network New Orleans — promoting Irish cultural awareness in the Greater New Orleans area.

  • Data Manager & AI Strategist (Board Member)
  • Managing digital infrastructure and web presence
  • Developing data tools and member-facing resources
  • Building accessible, community-centered data systems

in-nola.org

What I'm Building Next

Local AI Inference Pipeline

Moving from API-dependent AI to self-hosted inference.

The Plan:

  • Ollama for dev iteration
  • vLLM for production (continuous batching)
  • 4090 + 5070ti hardware

Why It Matters:

  • Fixed costs (electricity, not tokens)
  • Student data stays local
  • Unlimited experimentation
Expanded Content Areas

Extending single-pass assessment beyond Social Data Science and US History:

  • LEAP: STEM written responses, ELA, other social studies
  • CLEP exam preparation
  • ACT prep
  • WorkKeys assessment practice
  • Teacher dashboards for progress tracking
Single Pass AI

The dominant model of AI in education—and general use—is the chatbot: iterative, conversational, many-pass. Students go back and forth, refining prompts, chasing answers. It rewards a skill set most students don't have and creates dependency on the loop.

Single Pass AI is the counterbalance. One submission. One AI evaluation. Full context in the call—rubric, sources, task materials—so the AI verifies rather than guesses. Feedback identifies gaps without modeling the fix.

The student does the thinking. The AI is an instrument, not a tutor.

My Flagship Course

Demo the site at demo.muggsofdatasci.net

Social Data Science

A year-long mathematics credit course blending data science, sociology, and AI. Students follow the complete data science workflow—asking questions, gathering data, modeling, analyzing, and communicating findings.

Philosophy: Minimal-Pass AI

AI education should be about agency, not access. Students complete authentic work first (surveys, interviews, data analysis, writing), then deploy AI once as an analytical tool—not a conversational partner. Students remain the architects of their thinking.

What Students Produce

  • Quantitative surveys and research instruments
  • Qualitative interviews and focus group protocols
  • Data visualizations and statistical analysis
  • Written synthesis of findings

Why Sociology?

  • Reframes personal struggles as structural issues
  • Teaches "debunking" through empirical evidence
  • Builds civic agency and institutional navigation
  • MCAT now includes 10% sociology content

Local-First Infrastructure

AI models run offline on school-owned hardware—data sovereignty, no third-party monetization. Smaller open-source models (Mistral 7B, Phi-2, Gemma) reinforce disciplined, task-specific application.

Credit Pathways

  • Mathematics: Statistics & Probability credit
  • College Credit: CLEP Introductory Sociology pathway

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