Will Morris

Participating Company - EdTech Accelerator

Village Capital

Jan 2015 - Jun 2015 (6 months)

Selected ventures participate in a three-month outcome-based accelerator program where they receive critical business development training, mentorship from local business leaders and investors, and face-to-face interaction with potential customers. EdConnective chosen to be one of 10 participating ventures after a competitive selection process that reviewed hundreds of education ventures across the US.

Author

Education Week

Aug 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 5 months)

Write weekly posts that are published in the Ed-Tech Startup Column for Education Week, a national newspaper for US K-12 Education. Wrote one of the top 100 pieces of content on the entire web site in 2014 ("The Myth and Reality of Disruptive Students" which got picked up by Yahoo.) In 2014, the startup column was ranked 35th out of 80 blogs for traffic in the past year. Topics include: -K-12 Professional Development -Teacher Coaching -Education Technology -Startup Life -Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship

Administrative Fellow

William Mary

Aug 2014 - May 2015 (10 months)

Worked directly with Dean Marjorie Thomas on various projects for the office while providing direct support for students. - Provided counsel and access to resources for students experiencing varying levels of academic and emotional challenges - Liaised with other campus offices about student policies - Website edits and design for the Dean of Students Office webpage - Created and the VOLP Council Student Leaders Group - Transformed the annual report from a text-only Word document format to a magazine quality pdf designed with InDesign Software - Spearheaded an effort to document Dean of Students Office processes within each department

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Education Design Studio Fellow

Education Design Studio

Aug 2014 - May 2015 (10 months)

- The Education Design Studio is helping me build a multimillion dollar social impact venture (EdConnective) - Participate in weekly consulting sessions with education, business, and law experts - Receive seed funding - Highly selective program

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WVIP Fellow

Wharton Venture Initiation Program

May 2013 - Feb 2014 (10 months)

• UPenn Incubator program which assists selected students as they build businesses. • Provided professional advising, co-working space, and a community of entrepreneurs

Founder & CEO

EdConnective

Feb 2013 - Current (13 years 5 months)

EdConnective helps school leaders get coaching for teachers when they don't have the time, funds, or staff. Our mission is to help teachers move from good to great so that every student has access to a highly effective teacher AND every teacher has access to a highly effective coach. Our solution pairs teachers with master educators who provide robust coaching at 1/80th of today's cost, allowing for unprecedented access to high-quality instructional coaching.

M.S.Ed. in Education Policy

University of Pennsylvania

Jul 2012 - May 2013 (11 months)

• Program Evaluation, Policy Analysis, Teacher, Assessment, Finance Policy, Statistics • Volunteer Consultant for L.E.A.R.N. Education Advocacy Group • Conference Manager for L.E.A.R.N. education conference • Graduate Assistant, enhancing the curriculum for a rural India literacy initiative

Social Innovation Fellow

StartingBloc

Feb 2012 - Dec 2012 (11 months)

Since 2005, StartingBloc has helped social innovators address the most pressing global challenges of our time by giving them the education, inspiration and connections they need to create lasting change. StartingBloc's signature leadership development program, the StartingBloc Fellowship, exposes young leaders to new models for achieving social impact. The Fellowship begins with the transformative five-day Institute for Social Innovation, a five-day bootcamp whose curriculum is designed to include all the basic skills required for social change agents. Following the Institute, Fellows become part of the larger StartingBloc community which currently consists of well over 1,500 Fellows representing 221 colleges and over 53 countries.

Urban Prep Fellow

Urban Prep Academies

Jul 2011 - Jul 2012 (1 year 1 month)

*Supported, mentored, tutored, and advocated for a group of 28 disadvantaged African American male students *Provided intensive academic interventions in Math and English *Taught a year-long humanities based life-skills class *Lead after-school team activities and service-learning projects

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President

Kappa Pi Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc

Apr 2009 - Apr 2011 (2 years 1 month)

President of a service and scholarship centered fraternity for two years. Responsibilities included but where not limited to: --Fundraising --Event planning --Advocacy --Educational research --Civic Engagement and organizing *While president, Kappa Pi was recognized as the 2011 Outstanding Fraternity of the year by the W&M Order of Omega for all around excellence.

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