Dr. Correia studied Doctorate of Education (Ed. D.) Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Northeastern University

Content Instructional Leader, New Bedford Public Schools ESL Director, Discovery Language Academy

He is a critical theorist, linguist, and expert on literacy, critical pedagogy, and multicultural education studies. Until 2019, he was a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was also the founder of the Master of Arts Program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and chaired the program until approximately 2012. He has published extensively in linguistics, critical literacy, and bilingual and multicultural education. His publications include: Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know (1994), Dancing With Bigotry, and Critical Education in the New Information Age. He also served as the editor for and contributed an introduction to Noam Chomsky’s Chomsky on Miseducation (2000).

Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School
Principal Williams is a New Bedford resident. He served as principal of the city’s Keith Middle School and of the Whaling City Jr./Sr. High School.
Williams received his undergraduate and master’s degrees at UMass Dartmouth.