Susanna Matters is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator at Barker College working across Kindergarten to Year 8. In 2015, Susanna received the New South Wales Teachers’ Guild Certificate of Excellence for Early Career Teachers. In 2017, she was awarded with excellence a Master in Gifted Education from the University of NSW and named the Australian College of Educators NSW Young Professional of the Year. In 2020, Susanna completed a Professional Certificate of Educational Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne. She is passionate about shaping a whole-school culture and language around gifted education which helps individual learners feel understood and celebrated.