Our Team
Education Complex, Room 217
Tomás Galguera
Professor
Special Advisor to the Dean on AI
Education
BS, California State University, East Bay, 1984
PhD, Stanford University, 1997
Professional Interests
Teacher preparation for linguistically and culturally diverse students, pedagogies for language development and bilingual education, practitioner and classroom-based research, trauma-informed practice, generative AI as a pedagogical domain, equity and educational policy, critical language awareness
Bio
Tomás Galguera, PhD, is a CATLR AI Faculty Fellow, Special Advisor to the Dean on AI, and Professor of Education at Mills College at Northeastern University. Since 1996, he has taught language development methods, research methods, and educational leadership. His mixed methods scholarship focuses on bilingualism, pedagogical language knowledge, integrating newcomers, and systems thinking. He now explores generative AI in education, especially its potential as a pedagogical space to foster student reasoning and critical engagement. Galguera works to prepare educators for a tech-driven future while attending to issues of equity and trauma-informed practice through AI-supported teaching and learning.