Rebecca Westlake
Rebecca Westlake
Current IIH FellowSecond-year Ed.L.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education, IIH School Climate Perspectives Research Team
Rebecca Westlake is a second-year doctoral student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education Ed.L.D program. She brings 17 years of experience serving in the PreK-12 public schools system. A former high school English and multilingual learner teacher, Rebecca founded an alternative high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to recover and reengage students who had dropped out or had been pushed out of the traditional high school. She later served as the District Director of Multilingual Learner Education in Salem, Massachusetts, where she launched a dual language program and also led as a K-8 principal. Rebecca has taught abroad in Spain with a Fulbright grant, worked at the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education (MABE) as the Director of Professional Learning, and taught courses in bilingualism, biliteracy, and second language acquisition at Boston College. She holds a bachelor’s in English from Bates College, a master’s in teaching from American University, and a master’s in school leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.