Dr. Christopher Avilés has taught Spanish in the Boston Public Schools since the 2000-2001 school year. He has also taught as an adjunct professor in the Leadership in Urban Schools Doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston since 2010. He believes that education truly is the most important means of social mobility through meritocracy, and that through the study of language, students learn to connect more to the world beyond the familiar streets of their own neighborhoods, and that through the study of other cultures, students learn more about themselves and their own cultural identities. As an educator, he believes that education is not a neutral process that is strictly academic, but rather, a process that always takes place in a social, cultural, political, economic, and historic context. Dr. Avilés identifies as a post-modern critical pedagogue and subscribes to critical theories of education.
