Joelle Gamere

Chief of Office of Multicultural and Multilingual Education

Gamere is a proud BPS graduate who grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. She currently serves on the leadership team Mattahunt Elementary School, where she launched the nation’s first pre-K Haitian Creole-English dual-language program in 2017, which the Atlantic Magazine profiled in April of that year. She helped lead the Mattahunt School through a reopening after its closure during the 2016-2017 school year and ensured its programming was culturally and linguistically affirming to the communities within Boston’s neighborhoods.

Previously, Gamere has worked as a teacher and as a central-office administrator as the Director of ELL Instructional Support and Professional Learning in the Office of English Learners (renamed to Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Education.) She is fluent in Haitian Creole, and has been a fierce advocate and voice in the Boston education space especially in the field of Multilingual and Multicultural Education. As the Chief of OMME, Gamere will oversee multilingual instruction, services for our newcomers and immigrant families, multilingual learners with disabilities, equity and accountability compliance.

She will work collaboratively with Carolina Armstrong, Deputy Chief of Instructional Support and Brittany Baggett, Deputy Chief of Operations and Accountability. Having this structure in place ensures there are strong systems with checks and balances as it relates to the services BPS provides for our multilingual and English language students and their families.

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