HMS1869 - Key Persons
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- Senior Director, BPS Teacher Pipeline Programs
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- Addiction Specialist / Social Worker
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- Senior Director / Behavioral Health Services
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- Interim Secondary Program Director
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- Music & Movement Lower Campus
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- Teacher of the Deaf, Social Studies
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- Director of Equitable Pathways
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- Teacher of the Deaf, Transition
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- Member of the School Committee
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- Elementary Program Director
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- Speech - Language Pathologist
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- Instructional Technology Teacher
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- Night Custodian ( Upper )
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- Operational Leader for Secondary School Regions
As Executive Secretary, Elizabeth Sullivan manages the School Committee office, maintains the official records of all School Committee proceedings, and coordinates the public comment periods of BSC meetings. Liz formerly worked in the office of Mayor Thomas M. Menino, first as press aide and later as Director of Speechwriting. She is a graduate of Boston Latin School and Boston University.
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- Compliance Clerk / Special Education
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- Re - Engagement Center Director / Secondary Schools
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- Placement Specialist / Special Education
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- Teacher of the Deaf, Parent Infant Program Coordinator
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- Teacher of the Deaf, Physical Education
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- Teacher of the Deaf, Science
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- Interim Director and Transformation Manager
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- Chief of Operations / Operations
Ms. Robinson is a proud graduate of Girls Latin School. She received her B.S., M.S. Ed. and an honorary Doctorate in Education from Wheelock College, and serves on numerous boards dealing with family, community, multicultural, and early childhood education issues. In recognition of her work, Ms. Robinson has received awards such as the Wheelock Centennial Award, the Boston Parents Paper Family Advocate Award, the Women Who Care Award, and the Lucy Wheelock Award, was a 2004 participant in the Schott Fellowship in Early Care and Education (Public Policy), a program of the Schott Center for Public and Early Education, Cambridge MA, In 2005, she was named to the American Association of Museums, Centennial Honor Roll, in recognition of her contributions to the museum field in the past century and in 2010, was the recipient of the Abigail Elliot Award, given by BAEYC.
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- Upper School Secretary / Main Office
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- Director of Special Education
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- Director of Enrollment Operations
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- Member of the School Committee
Lorena Lopera is a first generation immigrant from Colombia. She serves as Executive Director at Latinos for Education, New England, the first Latino-founded and led national organization dedicated solely to creating leadership pathways for Latinos in education. She is a veteran of local organizations focused on expanding educational access for Latinx youth and students of color, including Roxbury-based Sociedad Latina, Epiphany School, and La Vida, Inc., as well as national organizations such as BES, City Year the Posse Foundation. She currently serves on the board of EdVestors. Lorena is a proud BPS parent.
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- COSESS Special Education K0 - 5
- Lower Campus SESS Coordinator
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- Family ASL Program Coordinator
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- Family Resource Specialist
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- Data & Evaluation Manager
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- Principal
- Principal K - 12
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- Director of Family Engagement / SEL
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- Member of the School Committee
Quoc Tran is the parent of four BPS graduates. In his current role as secretariat deputy director of the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Mr. Tran develops and implements diversity and inclusion strategies for over 22,000 employees, and creates diversity and affirmative action plans to retain a diverse workforce. Prior to this role, he was the executive director of the Vietnamese American Civic Association (VACA), where he managed all operations of the organization related to serving the social and public assistance needs of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants. Mr. Tran was a BPS high school teacher for six years. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in education from Northeastern University, and a doctoral degree in law from Suffolk University.
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- Member of the School Committee
Rafaela Polanco Garcia is an immigrant who lives in public housing in South Boston and has a background in law and bilingual advocacy. Her activism on behalf of the Latinx community in education includes working on the No on 2 campaign in 2016, helping to pass a sanctuary schools resolution, and passing the Student Opportunity Act. Since 2015, she has served as the Director of Parent Engagement and Organizing at St. Stephen's Youth Programs in the South End. She is a BPS parent.
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- Supervisor of Attendance - Court Based
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- Member of the School Committee
Stephen D. Alkins, Jr., Ph.D. is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (and Belonging) Officer (DEIO) and Co-chair of the DEI Council at TERC. With his leadership, Stephen helps craft and implement the vision for DEIB at TERC through his collaboration on NSF STEM education grant development in multiple learning environments (informal and formal K-16 spaces). His role and responsibilities include recruitment and retention of a diverse research and infrastructure staff, internal policy review, development and analysis of inclusive educational opportunities and social programming, and establishment of collaborative partnerships to promote equity for all STEM learners. He also helps research teams employ critical DEIB frameworks (e.g. Decolonization, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Social Capital Theory, etc.) to help dismantle systemic inequities within STEM education, support youth STEM identity development, and engage and include underrepresented/marginalized communities in authentic, collaborative research experiences. Further, Stephen directs the TERC Scholars Program, an undergraduate internship experience, to mentor the next generation of STEM education researchers, address inequities and injustices in STEM education, and broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM fields. Finally, he is an accomplished scientist, college and high school educator, mentor, and national-performing Spoken Word/SLAM poet who uses art to diversify participation in and enhance understanding of STEM concepts.
Stephen received his B.S. in Biology from Morehouse College and his Master's and Ph.D. in Cellular Neuroscience from Brandeis University.