Susan Daintith is a Japanese teacher with 21 years of experience in the ACT public system and currently teaches at a NSW Independent School. For the past decade, she has worked as a Literacy Coordinator, strengthening her commitment to improving students’ literacy skills and promoting the idea that all teachers are literacy teachers. She has collaborated with academics on research into student literacy development and the transition from primary to high school and is pursuing a PhD focused on middle‑years literacy. Susan has presented at ALEA conferences and was named the 2016 ACT Secondary Teacher of the Year.

Sam Moon is an experienced classroom teacher in secondary schools. He has a background in learning support and working with complex and hard to reach students. He has taught in regional and metropolitan settings in the Catholic and public sectors. He takes a dialogic approach to classroom teaching. This approach mixes explicit teaching with structured student inquiry. He is passionate about increasing student engagement and critical thinking through hands on games and activities that are learning centred. Play, discussion and trial and error are central to his approach to teaching students to think critically.