Mike Williams is a Title I Reading Specialist and currently serves as a Title I Program Liaison for Marion County Schools in Fairmont, West Virginia. He has been in education since 1988 and has served as an elementary classroom teacher, a reading specialist, and as an administrator. Mike believes that if you want excellence you have to practice excellence, and his collection of innovative, standards-based, educational learning centers are designed to do just that! In addition to teaching, Mike enjoys growing plants in his greenhouse, working in his yard and garden, and tending five backyard chickens. Mike and Marcie, his wife of 31 years, have four grown children whom they have home schooled.