Speakers Guild | Bill Page

Bill Page is a classroom teacher. He has patrolled the halls, responded to the bells, struggled with the innovations and has had his share of lunchroom duty, playground duty and bus duty. Bill is currently finishing his forty-sixth year as a teacher.

His proudest achievement is the remarkable success he has had through the years in closing the gap between successful kids and at-risk kids, school alienated kids, learning disabled, and those labeled "trouble-makers." - always working in heterogeneous groupings in regular classes and regular schools.

Bill has spoken to hundreds of thousands of teachers, and has taught fourteen different courses at eighty-six universities. He taught extension courses for twenty-six consecutive summers at the University of California at Riverside, San Diego, Irvine, Santa Barbara and Davis.

As a speaker, Bill does not present himself as an "expert," instead, he offers his testimonial as a classroom teacher who discovered and developed his own educational philosophy and arrived at his own concepts and his own successful techniques. Bill's personal message gets at the heart of professional attitude, personal responsibility and individual initiative for increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student achievement.

Forty Years of Success

Bill Page is eminently qualified with the experience, knowledge, expertise, materials, research and success to offer fresh, effective and proven staff development programs that guarantee increased achievement for all students including those most at-risk.

Bill served as originator, program director, teacher trainer, and demonstration teacher for Project Enable---a six-year research project of the Central Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory (CEMREL) funded by the U.S. Office of Education. The research program, implemented in Missouri and Tennessee and was extended and jointly funded by Peabody College, The Kennedy Child Study Center, Nashville, Davidson County Schools, CEMREL and Model Cities Project.

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Bill has written extensively and is engaged full time in presenting professional development programs for school districts in the U.S. and Canada. In the summer, Bill offers one, two or five day courses for school districts including: Getting The New Year Off To A Great Start: Teaching At-Risk Students; Middle School: In a League of Its Own; Teaching So Students Will Remember. All courses are inspirational and emphasize teacher responsibility and attitude.

Some of Bill's unique teaching experiences include these:

Bill has run "completely individualized classrooms" going from September to June without ever addressing the entire group. And, he has done it at elementary, middle, and high school levels.
He has gone for many years without giving an F to any student on anything ever and has helped other teachers to do the same.
He taught a civics class of 527 ninth graders in an auditorium for a year.
Bill taught a completely individualized math class of 93 seventh graders.
He taught a "wild" innovative school where they eliminated the halls, walls, bells, classes, grades, report cards, textbooks, schedules, and curriculum and used a teacher controlled variable, flexible schedule that changed daily.
He taught in districts of 10,000 teachers, 300 teachers, and five districts in-between.
He graduated 8th grade from one room country school with 27 kids in all 8 grades.
For three years Bill taught the lowest achievers in a large school in a federal research project based on the premise: "The problem isn't what's wrong with the kids, it's what we are doing to them." He then taught 16 teachers to replicate the program in eight other schools in two states.
For twenty-six consecutive years, Bill has taught teachers, in summer courses at the University of California, to individualize classes by shifting their roles from taskmasters to resources.
He set up and directed an innovative K-6 elementary school on an ungraded, individualized basis.
He taught demonstration classes of "troublemakers" in a joint project for Peabody College and the Kennedy Child Study Center and Metropolitan Nashville Schools.