Christopher Mortenson Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States

Geneva, Illinois, United States

Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to meet meal distribution goals, by recommending new programs and distribution opportunities to increase meal distribution to underserved areas and reach new neighbors• Assist and support projects that enhance the effectiveness of the Food Bank and effectiveness of our member agencies• Promote Food Bank programs, products, and services, and assisting, when necessary, the coordination of programs in their assigned service areas• Manage on-going communication with all member agencies through visits, email, texts, newsletters, and telephone calls• Work with the Agency Relations Compliance and Member Insights Manager to ensure that the required monitoring and other operating guidelines, regulations and rules are followed and documented as per the Food Bank and Feeding America or other governing body requirements• Work with Agency Training and Development Team to ensure member agencies are informed of upcoming training opportunities, grant and agency development opportunities. Attend agency training and development opportunities to ensure knowledge and support member agencies questions after training is complete• Participate, lead, and support continued training for our member agencies in various areas including food safety, agency orientation, county network meetings, and the annual Agency Conference• Identify gaps in the counties and communities of concern. Leader will then develop and support implementation of strategic opportunities for food and meal distribution to bridge identified gaps• Develops cooperative partnerships with other local organizations, other NPO’s and government organizations to better serve the county’s needs• In collaboration with the Philanthropy Department and Communications, be alert to public relations/promotional activities related to raising general community awareness of hunger issues in assigned counties• Lead, develop, and support volunteers working with Agency Relations team

Naperville, Illinois, United States

• Prepare for my day by reviewing my assignment, adapt my teaching style to the lesson plan, and implement the lesson and assessments in a thoughtful manner. • Fostered positive relationships with both faculty and students by shadowing and aiding in classrooms when I am not actively on an assignment. • Collaborated with k-5 teachers on how to best teach their lessons for seamless instruction for their students.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

• Helped restructure lesson plans, classroom material, lessons, resources, and other related material to be accessed and taught online. • Built a strong positive relationship with students in the virtual classroom to specifically address their emotional needs. • Collaborated with the 5th grade team to develop different methods of virtual instruction to meet the needs of the students. • Developed, taught, and assessed original lessons in all core academic disciplines referring to Illinois CCSS as a guide.

Batavia, Illinois, United States

• Administered lesson plans as determined by the classroom teacher. • Maintained a welcoming environment for students to openly communicate and learn. • Proctored tests and quizzes in a variety of subjects between grades 2 - 12. • Facilitated classroom discussions through questions, conferences, groupings, and activities to either introduce or conclude lessons.

Geneva, Illinois, United States

• Implemented lesson plans as outlined by the teacher and worked with the team leads and school offices to answer any questions that might have arisen during the day. • Ensured that a climate of fairness and respect was promoted during the school day while abiding by all school policies. • Collected and corrected students’ papers and assignments during breaks and returned the corrected or graded papers to students.

Geneva, Illinois, United States

• Partnered with the specials teachers to develop accommodations that would suit the needs of the learning goal and be unintrusive to the classroom learning. • Administered daily activities to help the student with reproducing phonetic sounds, worked on letter structure, and to build basic math sense. • Helped the student with their development of their fine motor skills in partnership with the Occupational Therapist. • Collected data used for IEP reports and shared results in IEP weekly meetings.

Depaul University

Master Of Education - Med, Elementary Education And Teaching, 3.82

Business Administration, Management And Operations, Gpa 3.4

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi Brother

Business Administration, Management And Operations, Gpa 3.5

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi honor society, Executive Board Member for Student Senate, Student Trustee Board Member, Co-Chair.

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