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Your Presenters
William A. Draves and Julie Coates have been interviewed by the nation’s media on this topic, and given talks in the U.S., Canada, and United Kingdom.

Their wide experience with the subject includes conducting original research, reviewing the literature, engaging with other educational researchers, teaching faculty, working with parents of boys, conducting faculty seminars at colleges and universities, and mentoring boys.

They have been interviewed by the BBC, USA Today, National School Board Journal, Arizona Republic, and numerous local and campus newspapers.

Coates and Draves are authors of the research report, “Smart Boys, Bad Grades” and are authors of the book Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st Century. The BBC calls Nine Shift “Fascinating.”
 
William A. Draves is President of the Learning Resources Network, a national nonprofit education organization. He has taught more than 6,000 faculty about teaching online, does consulting with colleges and universities, and has done numerous all-faculty presentations at institutions of higher education.
Julie Coates is Vice President for Information Services at the Learning Resources Network.

Her latest book is Generational Learning Styles, a pioneering work on how generations learn differently and the implications for faculty. She has conducted seminars in Russia, Australia, England, Germany, Mexico and all over Canada and the United States, including Radcliffe.
Coates did her graduate work in education at Kansas State University. She also teaches online classes for educators as part of the Master’s Degree in Adult and Higher Education at the University of South Dakota.
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