Charlotte is an AuDHD, passionate, special education assistant principal in regional Victoria. Charlotte has her M.Ed (Language Intervention & Hearing Impairment), a Grad.Cert (Literacy), and has recently completed her M.ED (Research) with the La Trobe University SOLARlab, focusing on the teacher attributes that support teaching students with an ID to read. She is also an Honorary Fellow with Institute of Special Education (InSpEd) and a casual senior researcher AERO. Charlotte’s contributions to Victorian state-wide initiatives extend into membership of the Curriculum Advisory Reference Group with the VCAA in the writing of the new Foundation Level A to Foundation Level D of the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 and being a member of various Department of Education reference groups; Lesson Plans, Phonics Plus, and Assessment and Reporting
Charlotte has taught in several specialist schools across Southwest Victoria in various teacher and leadership roles. In her previous special school she influenced whole school change, resulting in ‘flipping’ English data (from 75% of students below foundation to only 25% of students below foundation, in 4 years). Her specialty is literacy and language intervention with a passion to introduce research and evidence-based practices into specialist settings and mainstream schools through strategic whole-school change management.