VITAE Kristan Morales

KristanMorales kristandenisemorales@gmail.com
Educational Technology Skills and Experience: Website creation: I built an Algebra 1 website from scratch to house the newly developed Algebra 1 resources for my school. The website also includes a variety of multi-media projects I created to accompany my instruction of the course, an online resources, and links to hand selected Khan Academy videos to accompany each night of homework moralesmathematics.weebly.com APU Capstone Website: I built website for my APU graduate program which includes my professional growth in Educational Technology and Learning the work I have done for each APU ED tech class : kristanmorales.weebly.com Student Instruction on Website Creation: instructed over 140 High School students on how to create their own websites: AVID final project weebly websites spreadsheet and Algebra 1 create your own website final project spreadsheet (note the Alg1 students are still working on their project and will be due at year end when they will present to the class as part of our preparation for final exams Alg 1 create your webpage instructions Schoolloop website creation and have conducted staff development at my site

Video Creation Imovie & instructional video creation Angry Birds Graph Quadratics by KMorales Pirates & the linear Equations video, Angry birds find the Zeros Day in the Life of a calculator video , Screenflow screencasting (see my moralesmathematics.weebly website for examples) quiz 6.2 worksheet #18 & 20g

Google: google forms and embedding them into website to collect student electronic work (see spreadsheets above) google docs personal usage, team collaboration and doc sharing google training videos and one on one training for staff google hangouts for live video conferencing and online collaboration Online Instruction & Projects: ARRA-EETT-C Algebra grant recipient: Created and implemented online Hybrid Algebra 1 program for CHS to integrate technology using ALEKS adaptive learning program with over 180 students over a 2 year period. ALEKS online math instruction, assessment and implementation at High School level Questgarden webquest online lessons and projects questgarden pirate treasure project and questgarden polygon project Edcanvas common core project: http://edcvs.co/10VdkFa Tech Tools Prezi (see my moralesmathematics.weebly website for examples) Interactive powerpoint lessons Mobi Interwrite electronic tablet for instructional presentation in the classroom CPS student response clickers for classroom engagement and assessment Edmodo classroom social networking Livebinders-set up to house Algebra 1 documents for CHS QR code creation and interactive documents and lesson plans Photoshop Quia online Assessment Certification & Committees: Leading Edge Certification: Trained to teach online courses for the County of Riverside office of Education. County Online Curriculum Creation Team: Chosen to represent TVUSD Algebra 1 to work with teachers and curriculum developers from Riverside USD, Palm Springs USD, Corona/Norco USD to create online courses for use by the county and virtual schools in the county in alignment with the common core standards. District Technology committee charged with the task of making technology decisions district wide. ISTE general volunteer where I serve in a variety of individual or group capacities to support organizational goals and initiatives including submitting manuscript to Learning and Leading with Technology (L&L), participating in an ISTE input group, serving on an ISTE committee, or providing expertise in a particular subject matter area. ISTE Learning and Leading with Technology online manuscript contributor for August 2013 edition of Teachers Math Application Review.

Education and Experience BA in Quantitative Economics and Decision Science, UCSD 1990 -Graduated Summa Cum Laude -Graduated Honors with Distinction Single Subject Credential in Mathematics, UCSD 1995 -CLAD certified -Supplementary Authorization in Economics Masters Degree in Educational Technology, Azusa Pacific University, Spring 2013 - recognized for academic achievement and 4.0 gpa -International Society for Technology Educators Conference participant -Identified by professors as Graduate student who actively employs new technology into her classroom curriculum. -Recognized by the School of Education and Behavioral Sciences at APU for outstanding academic achievement and nominated for Pi Lambda Theta, the most selective national honor society for educators. -TVUSD technology planning team: discuss, plan and assist in the implementation of technology district wide -ISTE general volunteer: I serve in a variety of individual and group capacities to support organizational goals and initiatives including manuscript submission to Learning and Leading with Technology (L&L), participating in an ISTE input group, serving on an ISTE committee, and providing expertise in subject matter area. Vista Unified School District Teacher, 1995-2007 -Teacher of the Year nominee 2004 -Quality Math District Assessment Leader and Trainer -Geometry Benchmark Assessment Site representative for District -Freshmen Class Advisor, ASB 1995-96 -Sophmore Class Advisor, ASB 1996-97 -Junior Class Advisor, ASB 1997-98 -Senior Class Advisor, ASB 1998-99 -Interact Club advisor and Key Club Advisor Chaparral High School Teacher, 2007-present -Change for the Better Club advisor 2008- present -Freshmen House Advisor, Math Teacher representative 2008-09 -AVID Freshmen House Advisor, Math Teacher representative 2009-2010 -Algebra 2 Math Dept. Team Leader, 2009-10 -AVID college preparatory elective Teacher, 2010-2012 -AP Statistics teacher, 2011-present. Instrumental in recent AP program growth at CHS, new textbook adoption and curriculum development. My AP STATS students have been received award from the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce for their excellence achievement in Mathematics and have passed the AP exam for college credit.

-Algebra 1 ARRA EETT-C Grant Recipient and CHS Representative for TVUSD District: Chosen as the CHS Math dept representative to implement Algebra Hybrid Program where students use online learning in combination with traditional classroom methodologies. Trained and collaborated with Algebra teachers district wide to implement technology into the Algebra curriculum Awards and Achievements: 1. Crystal Apple Award Nominee: 2009, 2011, 2012 -Awarded by the Church of Latter Day Saints to teachers in the Temecula Valley for their tremendous work, time and efforts for the parents and students of the LDS community of Temecula Valley. -Recognized for her inspiration to students in motivating them to be their best and for setting example as good role model for person who is caring and committed to excellence. -Students and parents value her positive and friendly attitude that is supportive of students and instills in them a desire and willingness to learn. 2. Senator Joel Anderson AVID Teacher Recognition Award: 2011 -CA state senator recognized Kristan for her work in preparing and promoting college educations in high school students through her dedication to the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program at CHS. 3. TVUSD Board of Education & Superintendent Certificate of Recognition : 2012 -Recognized for her excellent leadership and outstanding contributions for making it possible for CHS to attain the status of AVID National Certified School. 4. CHS Teacher of the month nominee: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 -Recognized by fellow teachers as an educator whose caring and committed attitude towards students and their learning has achieved outstanding results in the classroom. 5. CHS Teacher Favorite Teacher Award: 2010 -Recognized by CHS students as the teacher on campus who is always friendly and caring to students with a warm and outgoing classroom personality that makes students feel comfortable and welcome in the classroom. Students truly enjoy learning in Mrs. Morales classroom and deem her as one of their favorite teachers. Community Service and Outreach 1. Change for the Better Club Advisor: 2008-present -Organized CHS school wide awards program to support teachers and students who are achieving goals and making a change for the better in their classrooms. Created individualized awards for over 200 students and organized pizza lunch and award ceremonies to celebrate student successes at CHS. -Operation Christmas Child: supported students to create shoeboxes filled with toiletries, school items, small gifts and a note of friendship sent to needy children in third world countries.

-Souls for Soles program: Organized students to collect over 100 pairs of shoes to donate for shoes to Haiti. 2. Reality Rally and Michelles Place Breast Cancer: 2011, 2012, 2013 -Organized over 30 students and 240 hours of community service each year to volunteer in Reality Rally in Temecula. A 3-day event where participants partake in a Amazing Race type event all over the city of Temecula to benefit Michelles Place, a local organization to help victims of Breast Cancer. 3. AVID Spaghetti Dinner and Auction: 2011 -Led class of 35 AVID students to reach out to the community to ask for donations for Spaghetti dinner and auction. Students went into the community with CHS AVID donation letter to ask for donations to raise money for college trip. -Collected over 200 donation items and raised over $5000 for students to attend 4 day, 9 college field trip -Organized and set up dinner in CHS gym and afforded AVID students to earn over 150 hours of community service. 4. AVID College Trip: 2012 -Was the sole teacher responsible for planning and chaperoning group of 35 High School juniors and 5 parents to go to 9 different CSU and UC college campuses on a 4 day bus trip. -Acted as financial planner for all monies earned to record, process and pay for college trip that cost over $6000. -Arranged for all hotels, charter buses and college tours for a group of 40 people. -Required all students to write reflection paper on the benefits of visiting numerous colleges and the impact the trip had on their own dreams and goals of applying for attending college and submitted letters to TVUSD Board of Education. 5. CIty of Temecula Christmas Parade: 2012 -Organized group of over 10 CHS high school students to volunteer in Christmas Parade to walk with Reality Rally group to benefit Michelles Place for Breast Cancer. Also brought my own kids and neighbors and their kids to accompany me to make the holidays a time of giving back to the community. Description of Experience: I have quite literally implemented every single project APU professors have asked me to do in my classroom and seen how it works on live students. That alone is one of my greatest strengths, my projects were meant to be and have been used in the classroom. I am now in the third year of using such projects with over 250 of my own Algebra 1 students, 80 Geometry students and 40 AVID students and 100 AP Stats students. I am now also extending my education technology to other teachers Algebra 1 students t hrough an enrichment program where I take the highest Algebra 1 students from multiple classrooms into the computer lab to do computer based enrichment projects which includes online practice work and of course use of projects I personally created at APU. I spent the past 3 years promoting my skills to both admin and other teachers and have become known as a leader in technology. I was chosen to represent CHS for the ARRA-

EETT-C grant, which was written to infuse technology into the Algebra 1 curriculum. Each middle school and High school site had to chose 1 teacher from the Math Dept. to be a part of the grant. I spent 1 year training and collaborating with the other selected teachers to learn how to implement and employ doc cameras, electronic writing tablets, student response clickers into how we teach. We all were also given site licenses for an online Algebra program called ALEKS and asked to integrate that into our curriculum and assessment. I spent 2 years taking multiple periods of Algebra 1 students to the computer lab for online ALEKS program. I tracked students progress online by time and topic learned and integrated online assessments that I personally created using the program software that is connected to our State adopted textbook. I did all of the above successfully and in fact was the only school in the district that asked for and received double the amount of site licenses so I could get more students involved. My name and advancements were included in our site WASC regarding Algebra 1. The technology and ALEKS online component for my Algebra classes were acknowledged by the WASC committee report and I was chosen to be a part of the newly constructed Algebra team charged with getting more students proficient and passing Algebra 1. This year I continued implementing technology driven curriculum not only for my students and teacher team at my school. My students use netbooks regularly in class as well to access the curriculum and work on ALEKS. I also had a smartboard installed in my classroom and am delivering lesson now using SMART Technology. I have created a complete Algebra 1 website moralesmathematics.weebly.com for teachers, students and parents to access and learn the curriculum. Additionally I am on the newly formed District Technology committee charged with the task of making technology decisions district wide. I am also a general volunteer for ISTE where I serve in a variety of individual or group capacities to support organizational goals and initiatives including submitting manuscript to Learning and Leading with Technology (L&L), participating in an ISTE input group, serving on an ISTE committee, or providing expertise in a particular subject matter area. I in the process of completing Leading Edge Certification for online teaching and am part of a cohort of teachers and curriculum developers from Riverside USD, Palm Springs USD, Corona/ Norco USD and Temecula USD working on meeting the iNacol standards for online courses using the common core for Algebra 1 to be used for online and virtual schools in the County. I am very excited the direction my Masters Degree in Educational Technology and Learning Degree is taking me. My goal is to continue to connect with teams of teachers and students and move forward in leading and learning in Educational Technology in conjunction with common core standards for 21st Century learners and educators.