Andrea Gordon-Smith

Andrea Gordon-Smith (she/her/hers) has 20 years of teaching experience in the New York City Department of Education. She is a 5th year AP Capstone teacher of AP Seminar and AP Research at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School. She plays a pivotal role in helping students transition from secondary research to independent research and collaborates with Kings County Hospital to provide students with research exposure to health careers. She has taken on various leadership roles throughout the years, such as NYC Peer Collaborative Teacher, NYC Mentor Teacher, Teacher Mentor, Community Outreach Coordinator, and National Honor Society Adviser. Andrea is pursuing a doctorate in Instructional Leadership at Hunter College, focusing her research on using Socratic Seminars to Fuel Youth Participatory Action Research.

Related Professional Experience

• Capstone Teacher: AP Seminar and AP Research at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School (2018 to present)
• NYC Peer Collaborative Teacher (Grade 6-8) at Satellite East Middle School (2016 to 2018)
• Teacher Mentor and Model Teacher at Walt Whitman Middle School 246 (2004 to 2016)

Conference Presentations

• UFT Teacher Leadership Conference – Topic: Designing Performance Tasks in Collaborative Teams, 2015 and 2016
• Team Participant at the NYC Teacher Leadership Summit, 2016

• CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY: Master of Science in Educational Leadership
• CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY: Master of Arts in English Teaching
• CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY: Bachelor of Arts in English
• Mico Teachers’ College, Kingston, Jamaica: Diploma in English as a Major and Spanish as a Minor, June 2001

Using Critical Dialogue in Socratic Seminars to Develop Active “Citizens” in an NYC Title One school