Language & Literacy Education
Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano
Dr. Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano is a lecturer of language education and director of the TESOL Multilingual Learner Education (Licensure) program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on professional development, preservice training, and instructional coaching for teachers who work with students classified as English learners. She is passionate about collaborating with […]
Betsy Beckert
Betsy Beckert is a doctoral student in language & literacy education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work focuses on the multiple and multimodal literacies of signing deaf students. Betsy has experience working in deaf education both in the US and abroad, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Usulután, El […]
Andrea Bien
Dr. Andrea Bien is a clinical assistant professor at BU Wheelock with appointments in both the Teaching & Learning and Language & Literacy Education departments. She is also the codirector of Educating Critically, a center for anti-oppression teaching & learning. Dr. Bien’s research and teaching focus on understanding elementary classroom practice as a tool for […]
Allie Jane Bruce
Allie Jane Bruce is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research has been located at the intersection of visual literacy, early childhood, and race & racism, and she is interested in how young children process and make meaning of racial content and […]
Jennifer Bryson
Dr. Jennifer Bryson is a senior lecturer and director of the Elementary Education and Reading Education programs at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. In her research, Dr. Bryson uses sociocognitive and sociocultural theories of learning to examine the role of family literacy projects as a tool to bridge home and school […]
Naomi Caselli
Dr. Naomi Caselli is an assistant professor of Deaf education and the co-director of the AI & Education initiative at Boston University. She leads a research team that documents the structure of the American Sign Language lexicon, the effects of language deprivation on language acquisition, and developing AI-enabled sign language technology. She is hearing, and […]
Dina C. Castro
Dr. Dina C. Castro is director of the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and the inaugural Bahamdan Professor in Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her scholarship focuses on equity and quality in the early care and education of bilingual children in immigrant, migrant, and indigenous communities. It […]
Suzanne Chapin
Dr. Suzanne Chapin is professor emerita of mathematics education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her work covers gifted education, curriculum design, teacher professional development in mathematics, and teacher and student discourse in mathematics. A consultant to school districts on reforming school mathematics, Dr. Chapin is a frequent speaker at national […]
Henry (Erning) Chen
Henry (Erning) Chen is a doctoral student in Language & Literacy Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is interested in international students’ socialization experience and academic development in US higher education. He is working on using ethnographic methods to study how Chinese international graduate students develop academic and social competences […]
Stephanie Curenton
Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Teaching & Learning Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is a developmental and community psychologist who studies the social, cognitive, and language development of racially marginalized children […]