William Pollock

Leading schools in a culture of change while addressing diversity goals and student achievement. Making schools better places for kids and teachers. Specialties include educational technology, doing whatever it takes to make schools better, thinking outside the box, doing things differently. Bill is currently an Independent Education Consultant ready to fill in and train new school leaders and provide staff development to the teaching staff specializing in community building, critical friends groups, leadership, using technology and project based learning.

For over twelve years, Mr. Pollock has been Rutgers University CESP/RELMA and provides comprehensive staff development service to educators/schools/school districts including research opportunities. Bill Pollock serves as Senior School Reform Specialist, presenter, emerging programs director and laboratory extension specialist.

Four over four years, he has provided the link between the researchers and the practitioners by being a senior member of the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic. He has recruited schools and districts to participate in random controlled research projects and collected data for those projects. Mr. Pollock also assisted in presenting the results of the research projects to educators through day-long workshop like events that bridged the link between practitioners and researchers.

Mr. Pollock is the Founding Principal of the High Technology High School, in Lincroft New Jersey. As the founding principal he helped design the program, curriculum and construction of the school. Helped obtain initial Blue Ribbon School Status, NJ Star School Status, Ten-year Middle States Accreditation and many other awards. In this science, math and technology focused county based vocational school. That represented the county with a diverse population with students from all elementary schools & sending districts. Pollock was the educational leader of the school for about ten years.