About our presenter:  Dr Jennifer Buckingham - Executive Director, Policy and Evidence, NSW Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM is Executive Director of the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation (CESE) in the NSW Department of Education. Prior to that, she was Director of Strategy and Senior Research Fellow at MultiLit, and Senior Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies. Jennifer was the founder of the Five from Five project. She is co-editor and co-author of the textbook Effective Instruction in Reading and Spelling (MRU Press, 2023) which is used in teacher education courses in universities in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Scotland, and An investigation of literacy instruction and policy in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Churchill Trust Australia, 2024). Jennifer is a board member of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South…