A former public school educator for 22 years, Will is co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice (plpnetwork.com), a unique professional development program that has mentored over 5,000 teachers worldwide in the last five years. His second and third books are Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education and Learning on the Blog. Over the past six years, he's spoken to and worked with tens of thousands of educators in over a dozen countries about the merits of online learning networks for personal and professional growth.He's a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation, and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine.