Kellie Picker

Dr Kellie Picker is a lecturer in primary literacy. She was awarded her doctorate in 2022 after researching the relationship between teacher reading content knowledge and classroom practice in early primary classrooms. Kellie has worked at a number of Australian universities and joined the RMIT team in 2025. Along with teaching, she has been involved in research projects to support teacher’s implementation of playful pedagogies (funded by the LEGO Foundation); the creation of a writing learning progression (funded by the Australian Council for Educational Research) and understanding effective practice in early literacy teaching and learning (funded by the Western Australian Department of Education and Training).  She is a member of ALEA and PETA and Vic TESOL.