Alba Franco
Doctoral Student
Alba Franco is a doctoral student in education with a focus on language and literacy at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being.Her research examines language and identity, in multilingual classrooms. She studies how early childhood education policies and practices relate to the experiences of linguistically and culturally diverse learners.
At BU Wheelock, Alba contributes to the Nuestros Niños Professional Development Program, conducting language assessments, classroom observations, and data collection to support bilingual education. She is a certified Early Childhood Montessori teacher with extensive experience teaching Italian and English as foreign languages.
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Education
MA, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Practice, University of Colorado, Boulder
MA, Pedagogical Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
BA, History (major) and Philosophy (minor), University of Palermo