{"id":81319,"date":"2025-01-20T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=81319"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:29:40","slug":"alba-franco","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/alba-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Alba Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Alba Franco is a doctoral student in education with a focus on language and literacy at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At BU Wheelock, Alba contributes to the Nuestros Ni\u00f1os 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18489,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/81319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/81319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87886,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/81319\/revisions\/87886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}