Meet Morgan
Multilingual Scholar Program Director
EL Specialist for Concordia Parish
LaTESOL Vice President
Morgan's strength as an educator comes from her very diverse career journey. After graduating from Penn State with two undergraduate degrees in Biotechnology and Psychology, she joined Teach for America, moved across the country to rural Louisiana and served as a high school science teacher for 5 years, where she earned her Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University. She fell in love with ESL when she became a VIPKID teacher in 2018. Now, in 2024, she is the EL Specialist for her Teach for America placement school district. In her second year she established the Multilingual Scholar Program, casting a spotlight on the neglect and inadequacies of support her students have experienced.
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She saw a dire need to drastically change and improve the educational resources and professional development for English Learners and their classroom teachers, and thus created her EL-centered curriculum Literacy Incorporated: Lessons Made with ELs in Mind.
"Mrs. Cerniglia is great at breaking things down so I can understand."
- Chris
"Mrs. Cerniglia's preparation and resources are extremely thorough."
- Mrs. Smith
"Mrs. Cerniglia helped me improved from an 18 to a 27 on the English ACT test."
-Pablo
Let's Learn!
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