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.
Adam Garry
Adam Garry is a former elementary school teacher. He is currently the manager of Dell s global professional learning organization. He has presented and keynoted at technology conferences around the world, including Alan November s conferences and NECC. He has published many articles on technology integration for several education magazines and authors his own blog. Over the past ten years, he has consulted in school districts across the country on school change, professional development, 21st century skills, technology integration, curriculum and instruction, and leadership. He is also a facilitator for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Professional Development Affiliates program and the International Society for Technology in Education s School 2.0 workshops. Adam received a BA in elementary education, a master s in teaching and learning with a technology emphasis, and a certificate in administration and supervision from Johns Hopkins University.
M. Ferriter, William
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