Mel Erwin

Mel, Ruth’s deputy, worked closely with Ruth during the development of Read Write Inc. Phonics, and helps her teach new trainers. She taught in Ruth’s school for many years before becoming a trainer. She has been key in developing some of the early reading materials for the programme.

Karen Morris

Karen is a highly experienced trainer and has a deep understanding of the problems and challenges of working with pupils struggling with reading and writing in both secondary and primary schools.

Karen was one of the first and best teachers to use and develop Read Write Inc. in schools in Leicester.

Janey Pursglove

Janey was one of the first teachers to use Read Write Inc. Fresh Start material in secondary schools, and has had amazing results in getting non-readers at secondary level to achieve high reading levels in one year. She also works extensively in primary schools, and has helped to set up Read Write Inc. support networks between secondary schools and their feeder primaries using Read Write Inc.

Janey has recently written stories for the new Fresh Start anthologies, and is currently involved with other writing projects for Read Write Inc. at primary level.

Davina Owen

Prior to working with Ruth Miskin Literacy, Davina has taught for 29 years and was Primary Teacher of the Year in 2001. She later became an Advanced Skills Teacher specialising in teaching and learning strategies, assessment for learning and literacy, and more recently was a Primary Literacy Consultant for Leicestershire.

Catherine Cardy

Catherine worked until recently as an assistant Headteacher in Kobi Nazrul School in Tower Hamlets, which was judged to be outstanding in all areas by OFSTED when Ruth was Headteacher. She was initially trained in Ruth's school, and taught with her for many years. She trialled the programme through its development with a range of age groups, and has a high level of expertise in the area of Special Needs, gaining an Outstanding from OFSTED for inclusion, attributed to the success of Read Write Inc. Every child left her school a reader, despite their special needs.

Ali Silke

Ali Silke began teaching in Tower Hamlets in Ruth’s school and later became her deputy head teacher. She went on to be a highly successful head of primary schools in Tower Hamlets and Southwark. Under Ali’s leadership, the schools in Whitechapel and Dulwich achieved excellent results using Read Write Inc. across the ability range from complex SEN to gifted and talented which was reflected in an overall outstanding OFSTED.

Katy Brierley

Katy worked as a Headteacher in West Yorkshire for twelve years and implemented Read Write Inc. in her school with excellent results. With a background in special educational needs she developed inclusive methods of teaching in both schools where she was Headteacher, and implemented Read Write Inc. in the early days of its development with great success. Katy’s school, Northowram Primary in Halifax also received an outstanding OFSTED in her time there.

Kirsten Mackie

Kirsten has extensive experience of working in challenging schools, understanding the needs of schools with very difficult circumstances. Kirsten was the Read Write Inc. manager at Monteagle Primary School, featured in the Channel 4 documentary ‘Last Chance Kids’.

Leah Marshall

In addition to her training work with Ruth Miskin Literacy, Leah is Deputy Head and Read Write Inc. manager at a highly successful Read Write Inc. model school in Newham, London. She has been managing Read Write Inc. there for over five years, and has taught every aspect of the programme. The school has had great success with the programme and receives visitors from all over the world to watch the lessons.

Leah has been graded as an outstanding teacher by Ofsted and her local authority.

Natalie Clayton

Natalie taught in Manchester at one of the first schools to adopt the Read Write Inc. programme, where her teaching was consistently rated as outstanding by OFSTED. She then introduced the programme to the Middle East and was Read Write Inc. manager for three years at the highly successful Repton School Dubai, managing a large department of 24 classes on the RWI programme, ensuring excellent progress and achieving excellent results, before returning to England. Natalie has a wealth of experience teaching children with English as an Additional Language, children with SEN, and gifted and talented children.

Hayri Mistiki

Hayri taught in primary schools in North London for 10 years and was a Leading Literacy teacher and Year head. She has been highly successful as Read Write Inc. manager in a challenging school with high mobility, high numbers of EAL and special needs pupils.

Penny Smith

Penny has been teaching for six years and is Head of School at Woodberry Down Primary School in Hackney, a National Support School and Read Write Inc. model school. Both the school and Penny’s own teaching and leadership were rated as outstanding by OFSTED. She also supports and develops the work in the Foundation Stage in all the schools in the Best Start Federation.

Charlotte Raby

Charlotte was a leading literacy teacher and assessment consultant in Brighton and Hove for five years, receiving excellent ratings from OFSTED. She has over 16 years experience teaching children with reading and writing difficulties, and has seen the huge benefit of Read Write Inc. for pupils in her school. She has also recently co-authored Read Write Inc. Comprehension Plus and is currently working with Ruth on other writing programmes.

Alice O’Reilly

Alice is Assistant Head Teacher and Read Write Inc. Manager at a successful Read Write Inc school in Hackney, London. Since the implementation of Read Write Inc, SAT results have improved dramatically for both reading and writing. Alice leads training for teachers and support staff across the Best Start Federations, and her own teaching has been consistently graded as outstanding by OFSTED. She also features in the Read Write Inc. training DVD!

Rachel Todd (based in Hong Kong)

Rachel trained as a primary teacher in New Zealand, where she taught until moving to the UK in 1999. She taught in London for several years and has been involved with Read Write Inc. since its initial development, achieving excellent results in a challenging London school before moving to Hong Kong in 2006.

Rachel is now RWI trainer for Hong Kong.

Astrid Cox (based in the Channel Islands)

Astrid has had extensive experience as a teacher both in England and abroad. Her teaching experiences have also focused on children with behavioural difficulties and special needs. She has managed the SENCOs' work in two Jersey schools, worked as an Inclusion Co-ordinator and was instrumental in bringing RWI to Jersey . She now manages and leads this in two schools, one of which she has successfully lead to 'Model' school status.