M. Ferriter, William
William M. Ferriter @plugusin on Twitter a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher in a PLC near Raleigh, North Carolina. A National Board Certified Teacher, Bill has designed professional development courses for educators nationwide. His trainings include how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts in the classroom; the role of iTunes in teaching and learning; and the power of digital moviemaking. Bill has also developed schoolwide technology rubrics and surveys that identify student and staff digital proficiency at the building level. He is a founding member and senior fellow of the Teacher Leaders Network and has served as teacher in residence at the Center for Teaching Quality. An advocate for PLCs, improved teacher working conditions, and teacher leadership, Bill has represented educators on Capitol Hill and presented at state and national conferences. He is among the first one hundred teachers in North Carolina and the first one thousand in the United States to earn certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He has been a Regional Teacher of the Year in North Carolina, and his blog, the Tempered Radical, earned Best Teacher Blog of 2008 from Edublogs. Bill has had articles published in the Journal for Staff Development, Educational Leadership, and Threshold Magazine. A contributing author to two assessment anthologies, The Teacher as Assessment Leader and The Principal as Assessment Leader, he is also coauthor of Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM.
Parry Graham
Parry Graham is the principal of Nashoba Regional High School in Bolton, Massachusetts. In his twenty years of experience in public education, he has worked in a variety of roles, including as a high school teacher, educational consultant, and clinical assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His passion, however, is educational leadership, and Parry has worked as a school-based administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. His first book, Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the First Year with co-author Bill Ferriter, was Learning Forward's 2010 Book of the Year, and was recognized as a 2009 Book of the Year Bronze award winner by Foreword Magazine. Parry completed his doctorate at UNC-Chapel Hill, and has published articles in the Journal of Staff Development, Research in Middle Level Education Online, Connexions, and TechLearning.
Matt Wight
Matt Wight is the principal at Apex High School in Wake County, North Carolina. He has worked as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, middle school principal, and high school principal. A strong proponent of PLCs, Matt created a collaborative school culture when he opened Salem Middle School; Salem has become one of the top performing middle schools in North Carolina. Since 2007, he has worked to transform the culture of a large, comprehensive high school, Apex High. During that time, Apex student achievement has risen every year, culminating in 2009 with Apex being recognized as a School of Excellence for having over ninety percent of its students demonstrate proficiency.
M. Ferriter, William
,Parry Graham
,Matt Wight
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