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Claire Acevedo is an Australian educator now based in the United Kingdom where she is an affiliated researcher in Language and Literacies at The Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) at the Open University. She concurrently provides educational services to schools and education sectors across Europe and South America where she leads professional development (in English, Spanish and Swedish). She is experienced in using Systemic Functional Linguistics via ‘Sydney School’ genre pedagogy to improve reading and writing outcomes for under achieving students in all areas of the school curriculum. She has collaborated with Dr David Rose, University of Sydney, over two decades on the latest research into genre-based reading and she specializes in delivering Reading to Learn literacy acceleration professional development to teachers and teacher educators. She is the co-founder and deputy chair of Reading for Life (http://reading4life.org) a non-profit association that promotes social justice in society and equity in education all over the world.