William K. Poston Jr.
Dr. Poston is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he served for 17 years. Bill began his educational career as a math and physics teacher and he accumulated 25 years of experience in educational administration including 15 years as a superintendent in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, and in Billings, Montana.
Dr. Poston has authored numerous professional articles and has published several books:
* Making Schools Work: Practical Management of School Operations (Corwin Press, 1992),
* Effective School Board Governance (Phi Delta Kappa International, 1994),
* Making Governance Work: Total Quality Education for School Boards, (Corwin Press, 1994),
* Generally Accepted Audit Principles in Curriculum Management (with Fen English, Acme Press, 1999),
* The Curriculum Audit: Improving School Quality (Co-author, Scarecrow Publishing, 2001),
* The Three Minute Classroom WalkThrough (Co-Author, Corwin Press, 2002),
* 50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap (Co-Author, Corwin Press, 2009)
* Budgeting in Hard Times: Confronting Cutbacks and Critics (Corwin Press, 2011).
Dr. Poston earned his Baccalaureate degree at the University of Northern Iowa, and his EdS and EdD degrees at Arizona State University. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1958 to 1961. He has many distinctive professional achievements, including service as the youngest-elected international president of Phi Delta Kappa International, and selection as an Outstanding Young Leader in American Education in 1980.
Dr. Poston has led curriculum management audits in over 70 school systems around the United States and internationally, including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Little Rock, Arkansas; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Huntsville, Alabama; Des Moines, Iowa; Utica, New York; Plano, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Columbus,Ohio; Atlanta (DeKalb County), Georgia; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Bermuda Ministry of Education. He was also a teaching fellow at the Institut Aminuddin Baki, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1996.
Dr. Poston specialized in courses dealing with organizational improvement, contemporary management, strategic planning, school finance, and educational leadership at Iowa State University. He was also the founder and executive director of the Iowa Superintendents' Academy and the Iowa School Business Management Academy. He continues to provide extensive service to schools in the areas of evaluation, curriculum management auditing, performance-based budgeting, and continual quality improvement.
