Christopher T Browder

Chris Browder has been working in the field of education for thirty years. He spent roughly ten years working overseas and about twenty in the U.S. public school system as an ESOL teacher, program coordinator, and accountability specialist focused on school improvement. He currently works for Prince George’s County School Systems in Maryland, just outside of the District of Columbia. This school system is one of the nation’s largest school systems and has a very large number of English learners from all over the world.

Chris Browder has extensive and varied experience teaching English as a second language and supporting and developing other teachers and school programs. This includes creating and delivering professional development programs as well as teaching graduate level courses in Second Language Theory and Research for Sookmyung Women’s University in South Korea and the University of Maryland Baltimore County in the United States.

Chris Browder is one of the few researchers to use public school data for quantitative research aimed at understanding academic resilience among students referred to as SLIFE. He has published several chapters and articles on the topic. His most recent focus is on critically examining and problematizing the SLIFE label itself and identifying and addressing the needs of newly arrived students with limited or interrupted formal schooling.