Full Profile

Kiran Satti is a Senior Assistant Principal, Primary Trust Reading/Literacy Lead and Year 2 Teacher. She is also the Project Lead for the DfE funded PEIA English Project, leading on the Primary strand of the programme. Kiran is also a Network Leader for WomenEd, leading on the @WomenedBookclub and working with the West Midlands team regionally.

Kiran has written several chapters for different Edu books, including:

Reimagining Fairytales for The DiverseEd Manifesto, Reader Volition in the Open University’s Reading Teacher’s Book and enabling girls into leadership for the up and forthcoming 3rd WomenEd book.

She is the 2023 UKLA Farshore Double Award Winner – Reading Champion and Author’s Choice for her DEI Pupil leadership work around Reader Volition and Agency.

Kiran has spoken at several Edu conferences including the Festival of Education, Pedagoo, WomenEd Unconferences, BrewEds and Open University workshops, ranging from enabling and empowering fiction for girls diversity, equity and inclusion to Reading for Pleasure Pedagogy.

She is passionate about advocating alternative fairytales and diversifying the representation in children’s literature; empowering fiction for girls #WomenEd and using texts that immerse children into different worlds and lives – specifically stories centred around immigration and the lived experiences of refugees.