Understanding Spelling

Olivia O’Sullivan is currently Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. She has many years experience working in literacy and of designing and delivering courses. Her work includes the following:

Designed and delivered a series of courses for teachers for the BBC Media Centre and has developed courses on using web publishing and digital video in the classroom.

Worked on a funded project at CLPE which looked at ways of raising the achievement of boys, particularly in the area of writing. This has culminated in a book, Boys on the Margin (CLPE, 2004)

Tutored for 10 years CLPE Raising Literacy Standards course which was highly evaluated by Ofsted/HMI.

Worked in New York City for five years (1991-96) on a bi-annual project in New York public schools. The work involved designing and delivering a rolling programme of in-service training for cohorts of teachers, school principals and staff development teams.

Acted as a consultant to Dorling Kindersley Education on two dictionaries for children.

A regular contributor to CLPE Publications and a regular reviewer of publications for the Times Educational Supplement