Dr. Jennifer Kelly has worked as a classroom teacher, an intervention teacher, a district literacy coordinator, an adjunct professor, and an independent literacy consultant. She currently works with the Provincial Outreach Program for the Early Years (POPEY) team as a teacher consultant in British Columbia, Canada. Jen completed her PhD through the University of British Columbia with a focus on professional learning for teachers. Jen is the author of Active Reading Classrooms: Strategies that Build Language Comprehension and Word Recognition Skills, and Reggio-Inspired Literacy in Primary Classrooms: Nurturing children to listen, prompt, guide, and research as they work together for more meaningful learning (coming soon). With a passion for literacy learning in the early years, Jen can infuse theory and practice when working with primary teachers.