Affliate Faculty
![Joan Lachance](https://edld.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/307/2024/01/lachance_joan_Professional-Portrait-1-e1698075647647-300x450-1-300x450.jpg)
Profile Dr. Joan Lachance is an Associate Professor of Education and serves as the Program Director of the undergraduate and graduate Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) programs at UNC Charlotte. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focused on Second Language Acquisition and Authentic Assessment with English Learners. She also works closely with teacher […]
![Byron White](https://edld.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/307/2024/01/Byron-300x450-1.jpg)
Dr. Byron P. White is Associate Provost for Urban Research and Community Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He oversees urbanCORE (Community-Oriented Research and Engagement), a new office that is part of the UNC Charlotte engaged scholarship ecosystem. The Office is charged with mobilizing, assessing and advancing efforts that connect the University’s […]
![Drew Polly, Ph.D.](https://edld.charlotte.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/307/2023/05/drew-polly.jpg)
My research and teaching focus on supporting pre-service and in-service teachers’ design and implementation of learner-centered tasks. My work explores how teacher education and professional development programs can most effectively support teachers’ efforts to integrate technology and learner-centered tasks into their classrooms.