Rachel Heydon is a professor and faculty scholar, in the Faculty of Education, Western University, Ontario, Canada. Her scholarship focuses on curriculum, literacies and teacher professional learning from early childhood onward. Two of Rachel’s current funded projects are Reading Pedagogies of Equity, a study of academic reading in teacher education; and Learning Together, a study of intergenerational multimodal literacies. Her most recent book is Constructing Meanings: Literacy pedagogies K-8 (7th ed.) (with Marianne McTavish and Joyce Bainbridge). Rachel is executive editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies and Canadian editor of Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies.