Christopher Morgan, Ed.D.

Christopher Morgan, Ed.D.

Music Teacher

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Educator | Administrator | Entrepreneur

  • Education

    • Louisiana Tech University

      2011 - 2016
      Master of Arts Secondary Education and Teaching: English 4.0

      Activities and Societies: NCTE Member February 2016: Selected to sit on an expert panel as a peer teacher leader.

    • Louisiana Tech University

      2018 - 2022
      Doctor of Education - EdD Educational Leadership, PK-12 4.0
    • Centenary College of Louisiana

      2005 - 2010
      Bachelor of Music: Orchestral Performance Music Performance, Orchestral Percussion 3.76, Magna Cum Laude
  • Experience

    • Summer Grove Elementary School

      Aug 2011 - May 2012
      Music Teacher

      Taught music to students in Kindergarten – 5th grades. Responsibilities included conducting reading interventions for students in 1st through 3rd grades and developing, preparing, and executing a Christmas program.

    • Caddo Parish School Board

      Dec 2012 - May 2014
      Substitute Teacher
    • C. E. Byrd High School

      Aug 2014 - Jul 2018
      Instructor

      Taught English Language Arts and percussion. Served as a sponsor for the school newspaper and co-sponsored Key Club, a student service organization.- Produced newspapers with professional-level design using Adobe InDesign for layout and formatting.- Organized the 2017 homecoming dance, handling over $10,000 in ticket sales.- Rated highly effective in formal evaluations from 2014-2018.

    • Word Of God Academy

      Aug 2018 - May 2021

      Served as a campus-based administrator on the academic leadership team. Responsibilities included leading a team of upper school educators, serving as a point of contact for learning technologies, administering FACTS learning management system, and conducting professional development.- Led the school-wide implementation of Google Classroom, which began with the Upper School in August 2019 and was phased in to the Lower School in March 2020.- Conducted evaluation and reporting of instructional programming for accreditation with the Association of Christian Schools International.- Conducted ongoing professional development for teachers, both corporately and individually, focused on classroom management, backward design, assessment, instructional strategies, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Google Workspace for Education integration.- Conducted performance evaluations for teachers. Show less

      • Dean of Academics / Upper School Principal

        Jun 2019 - May 2021
      • WOGAHome Director

        Nov 2018 - May 2021
      • English Language Arts Instructor

        Aug 2018 - May 2021
    • Tools 4 Reading

      Mar 2021 - May 2022
      Contractor | Consultant

      Began working with this company remotely as a side job, assisting with invoicing customers for online professional development. After writing an application in Google Apps Script to automate invoicing and completion certificate distribution, which improved operational efficiency for these tasks by an estimated 80%, my role grew to include operations process development and improvement, learning management system administration, web services administration, web design, knowledge management, marketing, and contract development.- Researched, implemented, and integrated Wix Answers, a customer support and knowledge management platform. As of May 23, 2022, the platform had been used by ~13,200 individuals with a 98% self-service success rate.- Developed processes and procedures selling and managing virtual instructor-led training (vILT) seminars and e-learning courses using Wix, Asana, Cognify LMS, and Google Workspace and documented them in a company handbook I developed.- Led the transfer of digital assets during a company acquisition, including payment accounts, cloud services accounts, and web domain ownership. Show less

    • Romph & Pou Agency

      Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
      Freelancer

      To gain more experience with imaging and video production, assisted the photographer and videographer with principal photography and videography for multiple commercial marketing campaigns.In July 2023, hired as sole photographer to document a client event.

    • Louisiana Tech University

      Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
      Adjunct Professor

      Recruited to teach quantitative research design and statistical analysis for the Ed.D. program. Developed the curriculum and assessments for the course, including test- and project-based assessments, and administered the course online using Zoom and Moodle LMS.- Focused on statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel in order to make the content more relevant and applicable to the students’ professions.- Developed video walkthroughs of statistical procedures using DaVinci Resolve video editing software.- Incorporated spaced, varied, and interleaved retrieval practice, best practices from educational neuroscience literature, into course design. Show less

    • Turner Elementary Middle School

      Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
      Teacher

      - Taught career exploration, visual design and marketing, and music technology.- Served as a photographer for multiple school events, including Homecoming Coronation, Field Day, Pre-K Graduation, and 8th Grade Graduation.- Directed, filmed, and produced a commercial announcing the opening of a David Raines Clinic at the school.

    • Lit Circuit

      May 2024 - now
      Co-Owner

      Lit Circuit focuses on providing content, products, and services to help people teach children to read, write, and think well.

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Christopher Morgan, Ed.D.
      ETS Recognition of Excellence Educational Testing Service Apr 2011 Scoring in the top 15% of all test takers who previously took the Praxis II for Elementary Education Content Knowledge.