The Goodnight Gecko

Dr. Helen Bradford is a passionate lifelong early years educator. She has worked in the early years for almost 30 years, where her specialist area of expertise is developing childhood language and literacy 0-8 years. She worked at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge between 2003 to 2015, where she co-led literacy on the Early Years and Primary PGCE course, alongside Mrs. Penny Coltman and Dr. David Whitebread. Dr. Bradford moved to UCL (University College London) Institute of Education in 2015, where she lectured for four years across early childhood Master's courses, working with diverse cohorts of students from across the globe. Her Master's Thesis, 'The Perceptions of Three- and Four-Year-Old Children as Writers' submitted to Cambridge received a top 'A' grade. Her Ph.D. research, entitled 'Co-Constructing Writing Pedagogy with Two-and-Three-Year-Old Children', won the 2019 United Kingdom Literacy Association prize for best thesis. Dr. Bradford is a member of CAMathories' Education Team, designing the curriculum for CAMathories(TM), and is a writer of the Folktale Mathematics(TM) Series of Books. Succeeding Dr. David Whitebread after his untimely passing, Dr. Bradford is currently the Chief Education Officer of CAMathories Company.