William Kist Media

acher in the Akron Public Schools and a former language arts and social studies curriculum coordinator for the Medina County Schools’ ESC and for Hudson City Schools, Bill has been working with schools and districts on a national level for over 20 years in the areas of integrating technology and using high-yield instructional strategies with struggling students. Bill also offers professional development and consulting in the areas of: curriculum mapping, lesson design, and student motivation. His professional development has been offered via keynotes with audiences in the hundreds as well as via coaching, working with teachers one-on-one. Bill has presented many keynote addresses for such organizations as the Denver Pop Culture-Con, National Dropout Prevention Conference, American Reading Forum, Texas Council of Teachers of English, The International Association for Entertainment Marketing Professionals, and the South Carolina Teachers of English. An author of over 50 articles, Bill has penned four books including New Literacies in Action, The Socially Networked Classroom, The Global School and Getting Started with Blended Learning. Bill has recently been the Project Director for College Today, a $480,000 grant-funded project (Great Lakes Education Philanthropy) designed to provide college-level English and math instruction on a daily basis to two small cohorts of underrepresented students at Akron Ellet and Akron Firestone High Schools. In addition, Bill has also recently directed Writing Ourselves, a project funded by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation that is bringing together English teachers from nine area high schools in an effort to help struggling writers get ready for college.