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 |  | William Kist is an associate professor at Kent State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on adolescent literacy. He has been a middle school and high school English teacher; a Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum coordinator; and a consultant and trainer for school districts across the United States. Kist has over 30 national and international conference presentations and 10 published articles to his credit, including his book New Literacies in Action: Teaching and Learning in Multiple Media (2005, Teachers College Press).
In addition to his work in education, Kist has worked as a video/film producer and musician. Kist is editing one independent feature film, Summer’s Journey, and is developing his original screenplay, Field Trip, to be filmed as an independent feature in 2008. |
Williams Kist's Selected Presentations
William Kist Web site
| Visit Bill’s own Web site which is kind of a catch-all collection of his various projects and interests, including education, new media, filmmaking and music, and much more! |
Presentation Topics
| William has presented around the nation as well as extensively in Ohio for many years. |
William Kist Describes His Approach to Consulting
| Hear directly from William Kist about his approach to consulting. |
Staff Development Presentations with School Districts
| William has many experiences with presentations and long-term partnerships with school districts for some K-12, but primarily 6-12 audiences. This partial list represents some of the work William has done in the past few years. |
International and Regional Presentations
| William has presented internationally on the subject he is most passionate about—multiliteracies—and will be presenting on that topic in the upcoming year at the NCTE meeting. He talks often about his case studies of "new literacies" and how we need to redefine literacy. |
William Kist Workshops
| William Kist presents workshops on new literacies in action and motivating the unmotivated adolescent reader both of which are described here.
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Published Works By William Kist
Ohio Journal of English Language Arts
| Read William's interesting article entitled, "Ur ALL da' Bomb!!! Assessing a Changing Language" from the Ohio Journal of English Language Arts. |
Published Works
| William is involved in two upcoming NCTE publications including the development of an article in the next SLATE newsletter about support that new teachers need as they start in the profession and he has contributed a lesson on an upcoming book entitled, Making media matter: Lessons for literacy in the English classroom. Both are due out this fall. |
Middle School Journal article on New Literacies
| William is the online featured article in the September 2003 issue of Middle School Journal, a publication of the National Middle School Association. The article describes assignments in "new literacies" classrooms—ones that focus on the use of nonprint media in composition. |
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Related Resources
Engaging Media Savvy Students
|  Bill was a reviewer of this NCTE kit that can be used to assist teachers in using pop culture and technology to engage students, especially reluctant learners. |
Education and Professional Experiences
| William spent 15 years in the middle and secondary classroom and after earning his doctorate in curriculum and instruction, began working at the college level. |
Participants Reflect on a William Kist Workshop!
| Teachers participating in a recent multi-day workshop not only learned about activities they could take to their classroom the next day, they also were engaged and enjoyed the experience! |
NCTE Media Literacy Position Statement
| NCTE is also passionate about the use of nonprint media in the classroom as evidenced by the following position statement developed in 2003. William contributed to the writing of this document. |
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