Julie Gorlewski

Julie Gorlewski is the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean of the School of Education at Hunter College – CUNY. In this role, she oversees programs and research designed to improve the lives of learners and communities through education.  Her graduate studies were completed at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she earned a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education and an Ed.M. in Elementary Education. She completed her B.S. in Secondary English Education at Buffalo State College. Dr. Gorlewski is a scholar educator with New York State Permanent Certification in Secondary English Education and Elementary/Early Childhood Education.

Her teaching experiences span Pre-K through graduate school, and include interdisciplinary initiatives related to equity and diversity. In P-12 schools, she taught secondary English for more than a decade at a school where she established the English as a Second Language program, served as chair of P-12 English language arts, was Coordinator of Instructional Technology, and served as founding director of a high school learning center. In higher education, she was professor in the department of Learning and Instruction, and the senior associate dean for teacher education and academic affairs in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She also served as chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning at Virginia Commonwealth University, and faculty in Secondary Education at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

As an educational researcher and teacher educator, Dr. Gorlewski is committed to connecting theory and practice to prepare teachers to engage in critical pedagogies that are culturally sustaining and community engaged. She has collaborated to secure multimillion dollar grants supporting these efforts, and has published over a dozen books related to instructional practice, teacher education, and educational policy; two of these texts were selected for Critics Choice Awards by the American Educational Studies Association. She has authored over numerous peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, and has delivered invited talks and peer-reviewed presentations at national and international conferences.  From 2013-2018, Dr. Gorlewski served as editor of English Journal, the flagship publication of the National Council of Teachers of English. She has also served as co-director of the Equity and Social Justice Conference Series (2007-2016) as well as the regional Conference on College Composition & Communication held in Richmond, VA in 2017.

Dr. Gorlewski is co-chair of the New York State Professional Standards & Practices Board for Teaching and a Commissioner for the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation.  Numerous groups and organizations have cited Dr. Gorlewski for her contributions to education. She was selected as a fellow for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Social Context in Education group, and from 2016-19 served as a section co-chair of AERA’s Curriculum Studies Division. She received the People Make a Difference award from the Cheektowaga Action Partnership, the Provost Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity from the State University of New York at New Paltz, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the English Education Department at Buffalo State College.

• PhD, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Social Foundations of Education
• EdM, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Elementary Education/Early Childhood
• BS, Buffalo State College, The State University of New York, Secondary English Education

• Curriculum and Instruction
• Access and Equity
• English Education
• Educator Preparation
• School and Community Partnerships
• Qualitative Research Methods

Book

• Gorlewski, J.A., Winkelsas, A., Rosenblith, S., Etopio, E., Stone-Johnson, C., Kearney, E., Gorlewski, D., Finocchio, B., Karalis Noel, T., Seccia, A., Zhang, L., Shafaei, N., Liu, X., Shedrick, T. (2022), A Case for Change in Teacher Education: Developing A Community-Based Residency Program. New York: Routledge.

Journal Article

• Etopio, E., Winkelsas, A., Jo, S., Karalis Noel, T., Kearney, E., Gorlewski, J. “Eden’s Garden: A Cultivator’s Chronicle” revised and resubmitted to Policy Futures in Education.

Book Chapter

• Karalis Noel T., Gorlewski J. (2022) Theorizing for Equity: Critical Approaches to Curricular Decision-Making. In: English F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_131-1
• Winkelsas, A., Karalis Noel, T., Gorlewski, J.A., & Etopio, E. (2022). Enacting care in collaboration during COVID-19 as teacher educators. In A. Webb & M. Shoffner (Eds.) Care after COVID: Reconstructing understandings of care in teacher education (pp. 57-68). Routledge.