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Eugene Williams Sr. is an author, educator, and inventor who was born on November 23, 1942, in Orange County, Virginia, in the United States. He is the father of author, educator, and motivational speaker, Eugene Williams Jr.
Williams attended a segregated school in central Virginia. As an adult, he received a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Paul's College in 1964, a master's degree in Administration and Supervision from The University of Virginia in 1968, and a doctor of education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Miami in 1972. He became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha while attending Saint Paul's College.
In 1964 Williams began his career in education as an English teacher at Jackson P. Burley High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. After receiving his doctorate, he became the coordinator of secondary education at Howard University from 1972 to 1978. In 1978 he served as a senior research scientist and curriculum designer for Lawrence Johnson & Associates, Inc. In 1980 he served briefly as a supervisor of instruction for the D.C. Public School System, and later became the dean of Sojourner-Douglass College in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1983 he became the assistant principal at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.
In 1989 Williams was chosen to be the director of test improvement for the D.C. Public School System. In 1999, Williams developed and coordinated a vocational training program for the University of the District of Columbia. After several years of retirement, he returned to the classroom, and as of 2010 [update] was teaching English, in the Prince George's County (MD) School System and writing courses at Southeastern University in Washington, D.C.
Williams is also the president and founder of Academic Resources Unlimited Inc., a 501C3 tax-exempt organization that provides tutoring in reading, math, SAT prep along with publishing opportunities for teachers, students, and administrators.
In 1979 Williams invented The Audiovisual Portfolio, [1] and received the patent for it on March 27, 1981.
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