Claire Acevedo is a Senior Education Officer at the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne. She is responsible for the implementation of the Middle Years Literacy Project (Yrs 5 -9) and Secondary Literacy provision as part of the CEO Literacy Advance Strategy. In her current role she provides professional development and strategic advice to teachers and school leaders in the area of Literacy and curriculum and leads and co-ordinates research projects in the areas of Literacy Intervention and Inclusive Curriculum for marginalised students. She is an experienced secondary ESL and LOTE teacher who has taught in the adult literacy and tertiary education sectors. She has been involved in leadership, whole school literacy initiatives and school based research into literacy learning in Catholic schools for many years.
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