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William M. Ferriter—@plugusin on Twitter— is national board-certified teacher who teaches sixth graders in a PLC near Raleigh, North Carolina. As a Solution Tree PLC Associate and a contract content developer for Pearson Achievement Solutions, Bill has designed professional development courses for educators nationwide.

His trainings include how to structure the work of professional learning teams; how technology can facilitate efficient collaboration; the role that technology can play in re-imagining classroom instruction; and how teachers can incorporate more student-involved assessment practices into their classrooms. Bill is also 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, student-centered learning spaces, improved teacher working conditions, and teacher leadership, Bill has represented educators on Capitol Hill and presented at state, national and international conferences. Bill has also had articles published in the Journal for Staff Development, Educational Leadership, PDK and Threshold Magazines.

A contributing author to two assessment anthologies, The Teacher as Assessment Leader and The Principal as Assessment Leader, he is also coauthor of Making Teamwork Meaningful,  Teaching the iGeneration,  Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™, Learning Forward’s (formerly NSDC) 2010 Professional Development Book of the Year, and Communicating and Connecting with Social Media. Bill earned a bachelor of science and master of science in elementary education from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

For more information, visit: http://bit.ly/temperedradical .  You can also contact Bill directly via email at wferriter at outlook dot com. 

Oh yeah--and his wife and daughter are beautiful!

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