Catherine Nash is the founding consultant of All About Writers.

 

Catherine began her teaching career in London and then Italy, before landing in New York as a founding teacher with a public charter school in Brooklyn. Here she taught marginalised children as part of a school reform movement, successfully closing the achievement gap between children in the poorest and richest parts of the state. From the classroom, Catherine moved into a network-wide role supporting teachers with writing, which involved everything from curriculum research and implementation, to new staff training for 100+ teachers each year. Catherine worked within schools to model, mentor and coach teachers, and created curriculum support materials that were used across the network. She also benefitted from being close to the Teachers College at Columbia University, developing her own expertise and skills through the Reading and Writing Project, the home of the writing workshop model of teaching.

 

Upon returning to Australia, Catherine spent happy years volunteering with the Story Factory in Sydney, gaining a Master of Education at UNSW, and establishing All About Writers. Since retuming home to Canberra in 2018, she is happily back in the classroom while also consulting and coaching in primary schools in and around Canberra. And she LOVES it. Catherine has continued to develop her own teaching practice as a proud and active member of the ALEA ACT Local Council. She has also dived head first into the wonderful world of English orthography, learning from leaders in the field from around the world. As part of this, Catherine developed a cross-sectoral word inquiry collaboration who were proud recipients of an ALEA Research Grant in 2020 to study the impact of this pedagogy on spelling and vocabulary in student writing.

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After a tricky couple of years, Catherine is back in business with lots of exciting things happening at All About Writers. Hopefully you'll be a part of it, too.