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Laurie Rabinowitz

Laurie Rabinowitz

Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Education Studies

Office: Palamountain Hall 212
Telephone: 518-580-5144
Email: lrabinowitz@skidmore.edu 

 

Dr. Laurie Rabinowitz is an associate professor of education studies at Skidmore College. Prior to working at Skidmore, she was a faculty member in Literacy and Reading at Bank Street College of Education. She has also taught courses at Teachers College, Columbia University, Barnard College, New York University, Hunter College, and LIU Brooklyn and has supervised student teachers at Teachers College, Columbia University. Previously, she was a special education teacher at a public school in New York City. She has also worked as a Director of Instruction at a New York City charter school.

She holds a doctoral degree in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research looks at inclusive practices and the intersections of literacy and inclusive pedagogy. Rabinowitz holds an MA in Education Leadership from New York University and an MS in Special Education from Hunter College. She earned her undergraduate degree in Art History from Barnard College.

Her work has been published in forums such as The Reading Teacher, Oxford Review of Education, and Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. In 2024, she co-authored her first book, Sustaining Cultural and Disability Identities in the Literacy Classroom, K-6, published by Routledge.

Education:
  • EdD, Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • MA, School Building Leadership, New York University
  • MS, Special Education, Hunter College
  • BA, Art History, Barnard College
Research and teaching interests:
  • Disability Sustaining Pedagogy
  • Disability Studies in Education
  • Inclusive Education
  • Critical Special Education
  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
  • Culturally Sustaining Jewish Education
  • Social Justice Approaches to Children’s Literature
  • Critical Perspectives on Reading Disabilities
  • Critical Literacy
Courses:
  • ED 213, Critical Foundations of Special Education: Disability, Equity & Inclusion
  • ED 200, Child Development and Learning
  • ED 375, Senior Thesis in Education Studies
  • ED 335, Teaching Elementary Literacy
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Recent conference presentations:
  • Tondreau, A., Rabinowitz, L. & Andrusik, K. (2026, April). “I recognize his traits so much in myself”: Anti-ableist Teaching Practices Informed by Disabled Educators’ Expertise [Roundtable Session]. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO.
  • Rabinowitz, L. & Tondreau, A. (2025, December). Literacy Teaching Informed by the Expertise of Educators with Disabilities [Paper Session]. Literacy Research Association. Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Rabinowitz, L. & Tondreau, A. (2025, July 16). Sustaining disability identities amidst political turmoil [Workshop]. Reimagining Education Summer Institute (RESI). New York, NY.
  • Tondreau, A. & Rabinowitz, L. (2025, July 3). Quality teaching informed by the expertise of educators with disabilities [Paper Session]. International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT). Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Tondreau, A., Rabinowitz, L., & Andrusik, K. (2025, January). Expanding and Elevating the Progressive Education Model: Disability Sustaining Pedagogy as a Tool for Improving Practice [Workshop]. Progressive Education Summit. Baltimore, MD. 
  • Tondreau, A. & Rabinowitz, L. (2024, December 4). Disability sustaining pedagogy in elementary literacy instruction [Paper Session]. Annual Literacy Research Association Conference. Atlanta, GA.
  • Rabinowitz, L., Tondreau, A., Mann, L., Jacob, S., Mohamed, H., Paddock, A. & Maltby, C. (2024, November 22). Disability as a cultural identity: Fostering changemakers through cultural and disability sustaining literacy [Panel discussion]. National Council for Teachers of English Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
  • Tondreau, A., Rabinowitz, L., Andrusik, K., Walton, V., Rice, L., & Lavine, T. (2024, November 7). Disability sustaining pedagogy: Neuroaffirming teaching based on the insights of neurodiverse elementary educators [Quick Chat]. 2024 Teacher Education Division (TED) of the Council for Exceptional Children Conference. Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Rabinowitz, L., Brown, S., Siddiqui, A., & Xu, S. (2024, November 8). Empowering novice educators: Book clubs as a pathway to disability identity fluency in the undergraduate classroom [Roundtable]. New York State Association of Teacher Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY.
  • Tondreau, A. & Rabinowitz, L. (2024, June 25). Sustaining cultural and disability identities in primary literacy classrooms [Paper session]. 23rd European Conference on Literacy and the 7th Panhellenic Literacy Conference. Chania, Greece.
  • Rabinowitz, L., Levy, S., & Salinas, D., (2024, April 14). Leaving dolls behind and deflecting bullets: Decategorizing children’s play through an intersectional approach [Paper on panel]. American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Rabinowitz, L., Tondreau, A., Lavine, T., Maltby, C., Walton, V., & Rice, L., (2024, April 12). Disability sustaining pedagogy: Elementary school literacy teaching based on the insights of teachers with disabilities [Panel discussion], American Education Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Contact Education Studies

Office

Palamountain 213
Phone: 518-580-5140

Department Chair

Hope Casto
Professor of Education Studies
hcasto@skidmore.edu

Administrative Assistant & Early Childhood Center Coordinator

Colleen Park
cbpark@skidmore.edu