Wesley Williams

Director of the Office of Educator Equity, Ohio Department of Education

Phone: 614-728 1726

Email: Wesley.williams@ode.state.oh.us

Area of Expertise: Teacher Recruitment and Retention Incentives

Wesley G. Williams (II) is the director of the Office of Educator Equity—a new office at the Ohio Department of Education—that focuses on implementing the strategies outlined in Ohio's Teacher Equity Plan. Mr. Williams is a former Academic and Performing Arts Complex (APAC) English teacher with Jackson Public Schools in Jackson, MS. In 1998, Mississippi passed and fully funded the Mississippi Critical Teacher Shortage Act. Mr. Williams became one of the first three professional teacher recruiters at the Mississippi Teacher Center at the Department of Education to implement the teacher recruitment and retention incentives outlined in this legislation. In 2001, he became director of teacher recruitment and enhancement for the Center, and in 2002, he was named director of the Mississippi Teacher Center in the Office of Quality Educators.