Mileidis Gort joined the University of Miami faculty in 2006 after serving as Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut for five years. During this time, she directed the Graduate Program in Bilingual/Bicultural Education and was Principal Investigator of a 5-year, $1.3 million, USDOE National Professional Development Program Training Grant. She earned an A.B. in Psychology from Brown University, an Ed.M. in Elementary Education with a focus on Urban Education from Boston College, and an Ed.D. in Literacy, Language, and Culture from Boston University in 2001. Her K-12 teaching experience includes Spanish/English Transitional Bilingual Education and Two-Way Immersion.

Dr. Gort’s work focuses on the nature of bilingual writing development of young Spanish-dominant and English-dominant learners in Two-Way Immersion programs. Other research and teacher-education interests include bilingual language acquisition and development, educational policies affecting bilingual learners, fair and equitable assessment of bilingual learners, and teacher education/development toward culturally- and linguistically- responsive pedagogy. Dr. Gort’s work has been published in the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Educational Policy, as well as numerous book chapters, research reports, and conference proceedings.

Dr. Gort currently serves as section editor of Multilingual and Multicultural Settings for the Journal of Literacy Research . She serves on the editorial review boards of the Bilingual Research Journal , the NABE Review of Research and Practice, and Educational Policy . She is an active member of the American Educational Research Association, the American Association for Applied Linguistics, the International Reading Association, the National Association for Bilingual Education, the National Reading Conference, and TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).