Charlotte Hacking

Charlotte Hacking is an experienced teacher and senior leader who has taught across the primary school age range. Before joining the Center for Literacy in Primary Education in London, she held several leadership posts in schools and was a literacy consultant within a local authority, focusing on early years, phonics, and primary literacy.

Hacking has written blogs and articles for a range of publications including Teach Primary and Books for Keeps. In 2020, she joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy as a member of the Practitioner Advisory Board.

Her special interests lie in early years, early literacy development, the development of writing, and the use of picture books and poetry to raise children’s engagement and attainment. Hacking is coauthor along with Dominic Wyse of The Balancing Act: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Phonics, Reading, and Writing, (Routledge), which publishes in June. The book dismantles polarized debates about the teaching of phonics and analyzes the latest scientific evidence of what really works.