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Bill Cecil
Setting the Table for Success
Bill Cecil is a 26-year veteran teacher for the Waverly Community Schools
in Lansing, Michigan. Bill believes that every teacher is a leader with a
team to lead. He has created a program called “Best Year Ever!” that
provides teachers with a clear vision, blueprint, and proven strategies
to create a positive, safe, and productive learning environment where
individuals strive for their personal best while working together to
achieve team goals.
Bill graduated with honors from Western Michigan University. While
attending Western, Bill earned four varsity letters playing on the men’s
soccer team and discovered his love of teaching while coaching youth
soccer camps for the Broncos. Not only did Bill discover teaching
through soccer, he learned the
potential power that a group of
individuals have when they work
together with a shared purpose or set
of goals. He has incorporated those
same team-building strategies into his
own teaching with great success.
Bill was chosen Michigan Teacher of
the Year for 2003–2004. Bill spent that
year on sabbatical working for the
Michigan Department of Education.
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