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Email: charles.proctor.1@dos5.net
ORCID 0000-0001-5666-2765
Teaching Language Arts
Bilingual Literacy and Literature
Dissertation Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction
Foundations of Bilingual Education
Historical and Political Contexts of Curriculum
Foundations of Language and Literacy Development
Contemporary Issues and Methods in Literacy Research
Bilingualism in school settings; Language and literacy development; Reading comprehension; Bilingual teacher education; Research-Practice calibrations; Instructional interventions
I am a professor and educational researcher focusing on bilingualism, bilingual education, language, and literacy. Theoretically, my work attempts to merge critical and developmental perspectives on language, literacy, and bilingualism in education. In terms of praxis, I work directly with teachers and administrators on issues of bilingual education and language-based literacy instruction, particularly in schools and districts characterized by student (and ideally teacher) multilingualism.
I started my career as an educator as a Spanish-English dual language teacher in the Detroit Public Schools. Later, I worked as a bilingual resource teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts and as an education specialist at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. After earning my doctorate, I joined Boston College in 2006, where my early work focused on psychological and developmental models of bilingualism and literacy.
Later, I took insights from that body of work to inform the development of multilingual literacy curricula that took multilingualism into account as part of the curriculum design process, and these days, I am invested in implementing those curricula in sites around the US. Finally, I work very closely with practicing bilingual teachers around applying contemporary models of bilingualism and learning to bilingual education contexts here in Massachusetts.
Bilingualism and second language acquisition among Haitian-speaking immigrants in Santiago, Chile
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2020 – 2025
2020 – 2023
2014 – 2018
2014 – 2017