Literacy Expertise

It's not so much about the literacy, but rather its about where you are starting from. What are the beliefs people hold? What are the students experiencing? What structures and resources are shaping decision making? What are the differences between students and how is that being catered for? 

Being a literacy consultant in Australia meant finding ways to bring a new literacy curriculum to life in teachers hands in diverse settings. Hooking them into what was to be different and why it mattered and how they could move through this learning journey.

Being a leader of curriculum and assessment in the UAE focused on dual lanaguage classrooms with multi national educators, listening to how those differences could be brought together under an umbrella that used the right tools and methodologies to bring about change without instilling resistence.

Being a leader of Literacy across a range of schools in India meant waiting to understand what belief systems and educational experiences had built the workforce and then designing a responsive, considerate and powerful learning journey to change people's minds about what matters for literacy and how it can be measured in a way that supports, not hinders that reform.