Julie Fernandez
Dean of the College of Education
Wingo Hall
P843-863-7914 / Ejfernandez@csuniv.edu
CREDENTIALS
Education
University of Houston- Main Campus, Houston, Texas 2012
Ed. D Educational Leadership
Dissertation Title: Principals’ Perspectives on How Transformational, Instructional, and Managerial Leadership Practices Influence Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement
University of Houston- Clear Lake, Texas
Mid- Management Certification 1997
M.S. Reading Specialist 1990
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
B.A. Education 1984
Certifications/Licensures
Texas Certified Appraiser: Texas Principal Evaluation and Support System(T-PESS) 2015
Texas Certified Trainer: Advancing Educational Leadership Trainer (AEL) 2015
Texas Certified Appraiser: Texas Teacher Evaluation Support System (T-TESS) 2020
Texas Certified Trainer: Texas Teacher Evaluation Support System (T-TESS) 2020
Texas Certified Trainer: Instructional Leadership Development (ILD) 2013
Texas Certified Trainer: Professional Development Appraisal System (PDAS) 2013
Texas Professional Certificate – Superintendent 2023
Texas Standard Certificate- Special Education (EC-12) 2023
Texas Professional Certificate- Mid- Management 1997- Lifetime
Texas Professional Certificate- Reading Specialist 1991- Lifetime
Texas Provisional Texas Certificate- Elementary (1-8) 1986- Lifetime
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Dr. Julie Fernandez has served in the education community for 36 years. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in Elementary Education, she and her husband moved to Houston, where she taught elementary and junior high school for 11 years. Dr. Fernandez earned a masters degree from the University of Houston- Clear Lake in Reading and completed post-graduate work in Education Administration. She then became an elementary school assistant principal and elementary principal in Clear Creek Independent School District, and subsequently a principal in a Title I elementary school in Houston Independent School District. Her doctorate from the University of Houston is in Executive Leadership in 2012, where her research focused on Transformational Leadership in Public School Principals. After graduating from UH, she became a full-time faculty member in their Educational Leadership program. She taught graduate and doctoral students in educational leadership and served as a Chair of numerous dissertations.
Dr. Fernandez came to Houston Baptist University in 2015 from a desire to incorporate the Christian worldview into school leaders’ development. She initially started as an assistant professor and taught undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in education. The dean appointed her Program Coordinator of the Education Administration Program, Department Chair of Leadership and Counseling. She was appointed dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences in 2018. Dr. Fernandez accepted the appointment as dean of the College of Education at Charleston Southern University on January 1, 2021.
Dr. Fernandez’s research interest involves school culture and climate, teacher leadership development, and organizational health-based leadership. She has co-written her book, Influencing Student High Achievement through School Climate: A Quantitative Approach to Organizational Health-based Leadership. Dr. Fernandez has been married to her husband Robert for 35 years, and they have two grown daughters, Mary, a chemical engineer, and Sarah, a pediatric nurse practitioner. Dr. Fernandez and her husband were active members of their church, where they led small home groups, coached small group leaders, and led Bible studies. They feel blessed to return to the Low Country, a place that has always been in their hearts and home.
Your Purpose. Our Mission.
I have felt God's prompting to integrate my faith in my work since I started my career. Working and teaching at CSU gives me the opportunity to not only disciple my faculty and staff, but to also share God's mercy and grace to the students.
Dr. Julie Fernandez, EdD
- PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Professional Presentations
Topic: Public Education to Higher Education: How to become a professor 2020
Texas Association of School Administrators Mid- Winter Conference
Austin, Texas
Topic: Classroom Cultures that Support Student Success 2019
HBU Teaching, Learning and Research Symposium
Houston, Texas
Topic: The Push and Pull of Leadership Coaching2018
Region 4 Chapter of Texas Council of Women School Executives
2018 Spring Conference
Houston, Texas
Topic: Creating a Culture of Literacy2017
Unlocking Literacy Conference
Neuhaus Education Center
Houston, Texas
Topic: The Implications of T-TESS for Leaders of Literacy2016
Unlocking Literacy Conference
Neuhaus Education Center
Houston, Texas
Topic: School Culture: Finding the Hidden Pieces2015
Spring ISD Leadership Conference
Spring, Texas
Topic: There No Bad Children, Just Confused Adults2015
HBU Teaching Symposium
Houston, TX
Topic: “What Principals Want in a New Teacher”2013, 2014
Student Teacher Conference, University of Houston
Houston, Texas
Topic: “Differentiation for Diversity in the United States” 2011
International Conference at Beijing Normal University
Beijing, China
Topic: “Differentiated Leadership”2010
Texas Elementary and Supervisors Association
Summer Conference, Austin, Texas
Topic: “The Principalship, Managing Stress”2010
Texas Elementary and Supervisors Association
Summer Conference, Austin, Texas
Topic: “Improving Staff Morale”2004
Texas Elementary and Supervisors Association
Summer Conference, Austin, Texas
PUBLICATIONS
Busch, S. & Fernandez, J. (2019) Influencing Student High Achievement through School Climate: A Quantitative Approach to Organizational Health-based Leadership. New York, NY. Routledge Publishing Company.
Title: On the Same Page
University of Houston Ed.D. in Professional Leadership Handbook 2013
- MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
Kappa Delta Pi
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)