About BPE

icon_headerArlene Hijara

Title: 
BTR Director of ESL and Special Education Programs
Phone Number: 
617.227.8055 x

Arlene Hijara joined BTR in May 2009. Previously, she worked with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as an Engish as a Second Language (ESL) specialist then English language learning and special education coordinator.  For eleven years, she worked in Northampton Public Schools as a tutor, teacher of the deaf, and special education coordinator. Before she immigrated to the US in 1994, Dr. Hijara served with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as an ESL teacher, curriculum development associate, teacher supervisor and Deputy Officer for Teacher Training. She spent seven years of living and working in resettlement training camps for Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees across Southeast Asia. Dr. Hijara holds an EdD in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies and CAGS in Bilingual, ESL, and Multicultural Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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The Boston Teacher Residency is a joint initiative of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) and is housed at BPE.

The Boston Plan for Excellence is working to make sure every child in Boston receives an excellent education. As a local education fund and nonprofit, we seek and support innovative solutions to the toughest problems faced by Boston’s students, their teachers, and the school system as a whole.

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