For three decades DR. ERICK GORDON’s unique brand of project-based education has impacted students and teachers worldwide. He served as Senior Fellow for Innovation at Teachers College, Columbia University, the director of the New York City Writing Project, and as a teacher of teachers and high school students alike. In his work as a social entrepreneur, Dr. Gordon founded the Student Press Initiative, the Rikers Island Oral History Project, and cofounded the multimodal learning program, Literacy Unbound.
Additional highlights of Gordon’s creations include the Muslim Youth Oral History Project, a groundbreaking program that provides Muslim students in New York City an opportunity to share personal stories and dispel cultural stereotypes, and Writers on Stage, a summer program for high school students.
Many of these projects are still thriving today at the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET), at Teachers College, Columbia University.