Zamira Y. Carroll holds a Bachelor's degree in Education with a focus on Pedagogy and School Administration, as well as an M.Ed. with a concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). A Post Master's degree in Educational Leadership. She is a certified AP Spanish Language & Culture, and Spanish Literature and Culture Teacher. She also holds a certification in teaching Heritage Language Education/Late Bilingual Education. She has been involved in Second Language Acquisition and Secondary Bilingual Development for over twenty-three years. Zamira has been an enthusiastic collaborator for Harvard University-Observatorio Cervantes. And worked as a Supervisor for the Boston College Education Program, supporting graduate students in obtaining their Bilingual Education Endorsement. Currently, Zamira is the proud Director of the Framingham High School Academy Evening Program. Throughout the years, she has acquired extensive experience and knowledge working closely with immigrant families and adolescents. Ms. Carroll engages families as true partners, fostering meaningful collaboration between home and school to strengthen student success. In addition, her commitment to providing resources has enabled her faculty to meet students where they are and to meet their individual needs. As a native Spanish speaker from Guatemala and a mother of a bilingual and bicultural young adult woman, Zamira's leadership ensures that every teacher sees themselves as a teacher of language, which has a ripple effect that benefits every student in our school.

Luisa Sparrow teaches self-contained special education to 5th and 6th graders with intellectual disabilities at the Perry K-6 School in South Boston. She serves on her school’s inclusion planning team and designed her school’s inclusive Cooking Club to create accessible environments where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Luisa began her teaching career in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a 2005 Teach for America corps member and worked as an educator in Costa Rica, Delaware, and Philadelphia before moving to Massachusetts. She supports Boston teachers who are pursuing National Board Certification through the BPS/BTU National Board Program and serves as a Teach Plus Senior Policy Fellow. Luisa holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development from Cornell University, a Master’s Degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and National Board Certification as an Exceptional Needs Specialist. Outside of school, she spends her time hiking, taking road trips with family and friends, supporting foster youth with disabilities, working with elders to document their life stories, and reading and having dance parties with her amazing daughters. Luisa lives with her family in the Merrimack Valley.