Interview with Shawn Morton - Teaching online and face to face

In this episode, we interview Ms. Shawn Morton, orchestra
director at Duluth High School in the Gwinnett County Schools in
Georgia about her experience going back to school amid the
COVID-19 pandemic.  She is slated to introduce students with
face to face learning in the next few weeks and discusses her
current online teaching and her preparations for face to face.



Shawn Morton is beginning her fourteenth year as an orchestra
teacher in Gwinnett County.  She graduated Summa Cum Laude
from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Music in Music
Education and a minor in viola performance. While attending UGA,
Mrs. Morton was a member of the Honors program and was president of
the UGA chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Mrs.
Morton also holds a Masters of Business Administration from Shorter
College. Mrs. Morton conducts the Gwinnett County Kendall Youth
Orchestra, and she has worked as a sectional coach with the
Gwinnett County Youth Symphony, and she has served as a clinician
for local school orchestras, the Spivey Hall Chamber Orchestra
Workshop, The Gwinnett County Violapalooza Festival, The Gwinnett
County Tapestry Workshop, the UGA Summer Music Camp and various
other workshops and clinics. Mrs. Morton also maintains a private
studio. Her students have been named as members of Kendall Youth
Orchestra, Gwinnett County Youth Symphony, Metropolitan Youth
Symphony Orchestra, Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Georgia
All-State Orchestra. In addition, Mrs. Morton’s orchestras have
performed at the 2007 Midwest Clinic, 2009 American String Teachers
Association Conference and the 2011 Georgia Music Educators
Association In-service Conference, 2013 National Band and Orchestra
Festival at Lincoln Center, and the 2014 Midwest Clinic. Mrs.
Morton is a member of the American String Teachers Association,
Georgia Music Educators Association, Professional Association
of Georgia Educators, and Sigma Beta Delta . She resides in Buford
with her husband Dale, son Hudson and dogs Harmony and Mozart.




Contact Shawn at shawn_morton@gwinnett.k12.ga.us