Will Morris

Will Morris

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Founder & CEO
Richmond, Virginia, United States

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  • Village Capital
    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.
  • Education Week
    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
  • William Mary
    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
  • E
    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
  • W
    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
  • EdConnective
    Founder & CEO
    EdConnective
    Feb 2013 - Current (13 years 9 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.
  • University of Pennsylvania
    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
  • StartingBloc
    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 ove
  • Urban Prep Academies
    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
  • K
    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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  • University of Pennsylvania
    Masters of Education Policy
    University of Pennsylvania
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 (2 years)
    Program breadth: ●Implementation of a coherent set of policies and practices; ●Inclusion of meaningful incentives for individuals and organizations; ●Development of the capacity of individuals and organizations to institute and sustain necessary changes; ●Evaluation of the effectiveness of education policies.
  • William Mary
    Psychology, Education, Community Studies
    William Mary
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2011 (5 years)
    RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
    Honors Thesis - "The Local Achievement Gap"
    ---Applied and was accepted into a rigorous six credit, two semester (Fall '10 - Spring '11) advanced, independent study guided by three interdisciplinary faculty advisors.
    • ---Researched multicultural competence, school ethos, and public policy as it affects the achievement gap in the local Williamsburg school system through the synthesis of literature views and interviews of teachers and faculty.
    • ---Wrote a comprehensive Protection for Human Subjects Protocol proposal that was approved
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  • 2
    2013 L.E.A.R.N. Education Conference
    Sep 2012 - Feb 2013 (6 months)
    Conference Manager
    • Oversaw the operation of a conference with an attendance of 400+
    • Selected, outreached and communicated with the panel speakers, including high-profile leaders in education
    • Created and distributed marketing materials, such as invitations, conference outlines, speaker lists
    • Recruited volunteers and promoted the conference among universities, public schools and education organizations.
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