About Kelly Morgan (Deters)


Strong Educational & Teaching Background

Kelly Morgan earned a Bachelor's in Chemistry with Distinction from The Colorado College in Colorado Springs after 4 years on a full tuition scholarship as a Barnes Scholar in Chemistry. Kelly received a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction in Natural Sciences from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She completed her PhD work from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln in December, 2008

Kelly is a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent/Young Adult Science (Chemistry).

She has 10 years teaching experience in large public high schools and a small private school. Kelly has taught chemistry, chemistry with an emphasis on art (a curriculum she designed), honors chemistry, AP chemistry and general chemistry at a community college as well as physics. She is now running an NSF-funded GK-12 grant program at Kansas State University bringing graduate level science students into the Junction City High Schools to bring their research to the classrooms and increase communication skills of these future scientists.

National-Level Presenter and Author

Kelly has presented at the school, district, state and national level to standing-room only crowds on curriculum reform and inquiry lab techniques.

Her publications include three research articles in The Journal of Chemical Education as well as several inquiry labs in The Science Teacher and The Physics Teacher.

Her need-to-know, real-world, inquiry based high school chemistry textbook is published through Kendall/Hunt.

NSTA Press recently published her book “Mastery Learning in the Science Classroom: Success for Every Student.”

State & National Award Winning Teacher

Kelly was one of three finalists for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching for Kansas.
She was awarded the NSTA high school award for Excellence in Inquiry-Based Science Teaching for 2006 and the Kansas State University ACS's Patrick Award for Excellence in High School Teaching in Kansas.