Principal Honorary Fellow, University of Wollongong, School of Education

Inducted into Reading Hall of Fame

Former Fullbright Scholar

Former Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Education 

Recipient International Year of Literacy Medal for 'Contributions to Australian Literacy Education'

Recipient Ethel Hayton Award by the University of Wollongong for Services to the Community

Recipient Inaugural Garth Boomer Award of Australian Reading Association

Life member National Council Teachers of English (USA)

Recipient International Reading Association's Gray Citation of Merit

Life Membership Primary English Teaching Association of Australia (PETAA)

ALEA Life Member

ALEA Principal Fellow

Honorary Fellow of the Australian Council of Educational Leadership

ACT Women's Honour Roll

Professor Emerita, Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney

Co-Director of the Creative Research, Engaging the Arts, Transforming Education (CREATE) Centre

Deputy Chair, West Words

Honorary Associate, Sydney Theatre Company

Former President of ALEA; Principal Fellow ALEA

Visiting Scholar, Barking Gecko Theatre

Former President of PETAA; Life Member of PETAA

Senior Honorary Fellow, University of Wollongong, School of Education

Life Member and Principal Fellow ALEA

Life Member PETAA

Fellow of Australian College of Educators

Inducted Member Reading Hall of Fame

Member of several Journal Editorial Boards, including Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Language Arts and Reading Teacher

More than 40 years in education as teacher, school executive, literacy consultant and casual university lecturer

Held  positions on ALEA Sydney North local council and ALEA national council

ALEA Principal Fellow and recipient of the ALEA Medal

Authored and co-authored several articles and publications in the areas of spelling and writing

Over 53 years in education in primary and secondary schools, at universities in Australia and the USA and as a literacy consultant

Author of teacher reference articles, books, DVDs and CD-ROMs

ALEA Principal Fellow

ALEA Honorary Life Member

ALEA Past President

Over 50 years in education as classroom teacher, principal, university lecturer and literacy consultant

Teacher of the Year (Group Award)

Author of many teacher reference books

Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing

Recipient of ALEA Citation of Merit Award for Literacy (the Garth Boomer Award)

ALEA Principal Fellow

Long career in education as an early childhood teacher, literacy coach, school leader and policy writer

ALEA Past Vice President

Awarded ALEA Life Membership and ALEA Principal Fellow 

Recipient of the AITSL Award for Excellence in Teaching and School Leadership and Australian Professional Teachers Association Meritorious Contribution to the Profession Award

Literacy consultant

Literacy consultant, nationally and internationally

Author of teacher reference books

ALEA Victorian State Director

Primary teacher

Primary school educator for 40 years

ALEA Principal Fellow

Principals Australia Institute John Liang Award 2016

Teaching in the Territory Excellence Award: Rural Principal of the Year in 2012 and 2016

Helped establish the South Australian Reading Association and established one of Australia's first gradate diplomas in Reading Education

Masters and doctoral degrees at Harvard University Gradate School of Education 

Developed the teacher-development program, Literacy and Learning in the Middle Years, with UNISA and South Australian school systems and extended it to the USA

Established and directed the Centre for Research in Language and Literacy in UNISA

Divisional Director, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Qualified teacher with over 30 years of experience

Professor of English Curriculum and Literacy Education at Griffith University

ALEA Principal Fellow and ALEA Life Member 2019

Past President of ALEA

Over 40 years as a teacher and teacher educator

Senior Lecturer in Literacy/English

United Kingdom Literacy Association Ambassador for Australia

Researcher at the Western Australian Centre for Excellence in the explicit teaching of literacy

Former Teaching Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire (UK)

Member of the editorial board of Literacy

Lecturer School of Education University of Notre Dame Australia

Experience as an early childhood specialist and specialist language development teacher

2016 International Literacy Association 30 Under 30 Honoree

Lecturer in the Sydney School of Education at the University of Sydney

Interest in the impact of professional learning on the development of language and literacy and the development of translanguaging
for students learning English as an additional language or dialect.