William M. Ferriter

William M. Ferriter

William M. Ferriter uses his 29 years of experience as a full-time classroom teacher to design professional development sessions for educators on topics ranging from establishing professional learning communities and effective systems of intervention to integrating meaningful differentiation, extension, and student-involved assessment opportunities into classroom instruction.

What William brings to audiences is practical experience gained through extensive work with his own professional learning teams and the students in his classrooms. Teachers appreciate the practicality of both his writing and his presentations, knowing that the content shared is content that was developed and implemented by a career classroom teacher. Every book that he writes and session that he delivers is designed to give participants not just a clear understanding of the whys behind the ideas that he is introducing, but tangible examples of how to turn those ideas into classroom and collaborative practices that work.

Bill is also the coauthor of several Solution Tree titles, including Building a Professional Learning Community at Work®, Making Teamwork Meaningful, Creating a Culture of Feedback, and You Can Learn: Building Student Ownership, Motivation and Efficacy with the PLC at Work Process. Finally, he is the author of The Big Book of Tools for Collaborative Teams in a Professional Learning Community at Work.

Bill earned a bachelor of science and master of science in elementary education from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

To book William M. Ferriter for professional development, contact [email protected].

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Presentations by William M. Ferriter

• Moving from a Culture of Grading to a Culture of Feedback: Using Student-Involved Assessment to Engage ALL Learners
• Making Teamwork Meaningful: Strengthening the Collaborative Work of Teacher Teams
• Making Differentiation Doable: Five Digital Tools that Can Support Differentiated Instruction in Any Classroom
• We’re Meeting. Now What? A Look Inside a Learning Team
• One Step at a Time: Supporting the Differentiated Needs of Professional Learning Teams
• Why This? Why Now? Why Bother? Exploring the Reasons Classroom Teachers Should Embrace the PLC at Work Process
• We’re Meeting. Now What? Exploring Resources to Explicitly the Steps Teams Can Take to Use Data to Inform Their Practice
• Establishing High Functioning Learning Teams in Small Schools or for Singleton Teachers
• You Can Learn: Building Student Ownership, Motivation, and Efficacy with the PLC at Work Process
• Tips and Tricks for Creating Blended Learning Spaces
• Differentiating Learning in a Remote Learning Environment
• Delivering Content in a Remote Learning Environment
• Tips and Tricks for Teaching Students in a Remote Learning Environment
• What Does “Meaningful Feedback to Students” Look Like in a Remote Learning Environment?