About Us
We take the research and make it work in your classroom.
Training 24/7 is a small team of experts who are teachers first. You will find us in schools almost every day.
Our job is the heavy lifting on the evidence. The research on reading, teaching practice and cognitive science, sorted into what works and made practical, so you don’t have to.
We don’t just tell you what to do. We show you. Our team steps into classrooms and teaches, in your school or through recorded demonstration lessons.
Our work covers every area of literacy, at every level from a single classroom to entire education systems, and our own technology helps teachers and leaders do their best work.
Education Team
Jo-Anne also co-founded Get Reading Right and is the author of its synthetic phonics program, decodable readers and fluency resources, and a teacher trainer for more than 20 years. She has led literacy improvement from NSW public schools to 20 international schools in Hong Kong. Her manuals and scope and sequence are used in Fijian public primary schools, and she led the Science of Reading and Writing project across 12 schools in Ontario, Canada.
Master of Educational Leadership · Bachelor of Education, Western Sydney University
Justin has 29 years in K–6 education as a teacher, school leader and, since 2010, educational consultant. He has strengthened literacy practice in more than 100 schools, designing whole-school and multi-school structures and modelling explicit instruction through live demonstration lessons. He leads professional learning for regional networks and the Science of Learning Alliance, and has written more than 40 Get Reading Right decodable stories.
Bachelor of Teaching (General Primary), Western Sydney University
Melanie designs evidence-informed literacy resources and leads professional learning, modelling and coaching in more than 80 schools across metropolitan and regional Australia. A former Assistant Principal, Curriculum and Instruction, she was lead consultant on AERO’s research into demonstration lessons and online phonics training, and has trained more than 400 educators in the science of reading and writing.
Master of Educational Leadership, UNSW · Bachelor of Primary Teaching, Charles Sturt University
An experienced Assistant Principal and K–6 teacher, Sue writes decodable stories for Get Reading Right and develops resources for phonics, fluency, reading and writing. She has authored new Basic and Advanced Code stories, co-authored the Fluency Toolkits used in Fijian schools, and writes Learning 24/7’s home-learning literacy lessons.
Master of Arts (Children’s Literature and Literacy), UTS · Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Design and Publishing
Adam brings more than 30 years in graphic design and illustration. He designs and illustrates our decodable readers, teacher resources and corporate materials, drawing on years running a print-house art room to take every title from first concept through to final artwork and print.
Associate Diploma in Graphic Design, Liverpool TAFE
A fine-arts graduate, Jessica has spent more than twelve years at Get Reading Right proofreading the decodable series and looking after sales, marketing and customer support. Earlier roles in school librarianship and bookselling give her a practical understanding of how children’s books reach schools and families.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle
Technology and Operations
Geoffrey is the tech co-founder and CEO of Training 24/7 and CEO of Get Reading Right. He brings three decades in technology — including 12 years at Oracle and Sun Microsystems, latterly as Chief Technologist for Asia-Pacific Systems — to the operations, platforms and publishing behind evidence-based literacy teaching. He built the online platform through which Fiji’s lead teachers were trained, led Training 24/7’s work on AERO’s phonics research study, and runs Get Reading Right’s production, printing and distribution. He manages our infrastructure and operations, and still shares the video production and customer support.
As President of Learning Difficulties Australia, he led the national not-for-profit’s return to surplus and built its online learning platform for members.
MBA (Finance), Australian Institute of Business · Graduate Certificate in Professional Legal Studies, Griffith University · Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Newcastle
Jay wears many hats and keeps Training 24/7 running behind the scenes. He looks after customer service for teachers and schools, edits the video behind our online courses, provides technical support across our platforms, and manages the printing and shipping of our resources. He brings more than 25 years as a communications, data and security systems technician, and handles photography and filming on our projects.
We work hand in hand with our sister company, Get Reading Right, publisher of the synthetic phonics program and decodable readers our consultants teach with. Our professional learning has been studied by Evidence for Learning and used in AERO’s two-year phonics research study. We are proudly 100% Australian owned and managed.
Work with us
Talk to us about professional learning, coaching or a literacy program for your school, network or system.