Language & Literacy Education

Michael Alan Chang

Dr. Michael Alan Chang is the Margaret McGuire Earl Career Development Professor, a faculty fellow in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), and an assistant director at the Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. Dr. Chang is a learning scientist and computer scientist who envisions AI-supported possibilities for teaching and learning that go […]

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 Educational Leadership & Policy Studies 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 also a senior fellow at the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child and is […]

Christina L. Dobbs

Dr. Christina L. Dobbs is an associate professor, director of the English Education for Equity & Justice program, and chair of the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include adolescent writing development in the disciplines, supporting culturally and linguistically diverse students in secondary […]

Laura Dziuban

Laura Dziuban is a part-time instructor and pre-practicum program supervisor in the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She currently teaches English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) to adult learners at the Cambridge Community Learning Center and Harvard University’s Bridge Program, and coaches new ESOL […]

Falon Eke

Falon E. Eke is a part-time instructor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is an educator with a deep interest in empowering immigrant and refugee families through language and literacy. As an immigrant to the United States, Ms. Eke is aware of some of the difficulties that come with adjusting […]

Alba Franco

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 […]

Katherine Frankel

Dr. Katherine K. Frankel is an associate professor of literacy education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Frankel teaches graduate courses in literacy and qualitative methods. Her research focuses on adolescent literacy, broadly, including how to support adolescents’ literacy learning across disciplines in secondary (middle and high school) classrooms as […]

Jelonid Fuentes

Jelonid Fuentes is a program coordinator at the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also a data collector coordinator for the Nuestros Niños Program. In her role, she provides administrative and logistical support for both the institute and program. Her research interests include multilingual […]