Morgan Hammett

I am a detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments. Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes and supporting team objectives.

Implementation of Success Criteria 

• Analyzing grade-level indicators and clarifying the mathematical intent
• Identifying prerequisite skills and vertical alignment across grade levels
• Determining the cognitive demand (Depth of Knowledge levels)
• Breaking standards into clear, measurable learning targets
• Clearly define what students should know and be able to do
• Maintain alignment with South Carolina performance expectations
• Emphasize conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application
• Reflect rigor appropriate to the grade level
• Learning targets are sequenced to support progression from foundational skills to higher-level reasoning.
• Designed the format of success criteria display and shared out to the school.

Co-Constructing Success Criteria 

• Co-construction involves partnering with students to define what success looks like for a particular standard.
• Promotes student ownership of learning
• Clarifies expectations before, during, and after instruction
• Encourages self-assessment
• Builds academic language

Pacing Guides 

• Created district level pacing guides to align to new state standards for math and reading
• Made revisions to pacing guides and summative assessments to increase rigor and alignment
• Ensure alignment to South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards
• Provide a coherent scope and sequence across the academic year
• Establish consistent instructional expectations across schools
• Support vertical alignment and progression of skills
• Promote equity in access to grade-level content
• Mapped out grade level daily instruction, guided math or small-group interventions, independent practice, formative assessments and performance tasks

Teacher Evaluator 2024-Present

• Trained on the 4.0 rubric and certified to be a teacher evaluator.
• District Mentor 2022-Present
• Trained on the 4.0 rubric to be a mentor for first year teachers within the district.

Instructional Material Review Panel 2023

• Responsible for evaluating instructional materials submitted by publishers and reaching consensus on recommendations that are presented to the SBE at the state department.
• Determined curriculums that would be approved from the South Carolina Department of Education
• Checked alignment of curriculum to South Carolina Standards.
• Analyzed lesson structure and coherence
• Analyzed if curriculum scaffolded supports and differentiation, embedded formative and summative assessments, included opportunities for student discourse and engagement or, integrated technology and digital resources, included culturally responsive content, avoids bias or inappropriate representations
• Compare strengths and weaknesses across programs
• Analyze alignment ratings and scoring rubrics
• Evaluate supplemental resources and intervention components
• Consider long-term implementation sustainability

ELA Standards Revision Committee with the State Department 2022

• Worked with other teachers throughout the state on the 2023 College- and Career- Ready Standards.
• Evaluate strengths and gaps in existing standards
• Review alignment across grade levels
• Examine clarity, redundancy, and rigor
• Compare South Carolina standards to national and other state benchmarks
• Review national frameworks and model standards
• Consider feedback from educators, families, and stakeholders
• Ensured new standards had clear, concise, and measurable wording, had appropriate cognitive demand (DOK levels), was developmentally appropriate and had alignment with assessment expectations

Pacolet Elementary School Leadership Team Member 2020-Present

• Interview committee for assistant principal, literacy coach, and multiple classroom teaching position
• Vertical alignment meetings to helps students move to the next grade level prepared
• Tutor with Panther Academy 2022-2024
• Power Hour Lead 2018-2024
• Teaching Fellows Scholarship Interview Committee 2018-2020, 2024-2025 (Interviewed potential scholarships recipients for the South Carolina Teaching Fellows scholarship)

Common Assessments and DIGS 2019-2021

• Worked at the district office in creating and implementing assessments and pacing guides for fourth grade teachers throughout the district.
• Created lessons using district resources that aligned to South Carolina ELA standards.
• Included formative and summative assessments that aligned to standards.