Welcome to the Center for Teaching & Learning at Pratt Institute

The CTL's Guiding Values are Community, Reflection, & Action

The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom and studio pedagogy, online and hybrid formats, experiential hands-on learning, and more. The Center aims to create an interdisciplinary, resilient, and reflective learning environment to address the urgency of the ‘now’, ranging from discussing difficult issues in a diverse classroom to larger social and cultural complexities of our times. 

Mission and Community Standards: In order to foster faculty collaborations built on a shared understanding of respect, we have established a set of community standards that we expect all CTL members and participants to follow.

What we offer in all CTL programming are tools and perspectives with which to approach your practice. Contexts, individual and collective, are always to be considered when employing any framework. We hope you’ll take a reflective approach to your teaching, using the resources and practices suggested here when they seem fit.

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Weeks 1-5

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Faculty Spotlights 🗓

Join us for this online faculty-led series where colleagues highlight a certain classroom practice, use of a technological platform, pedagogical approach, or research on classroom/studio practice they’ve found invaluable and especially relevant for cross-departmental sharing. Each Spotlight takes place virtually and includes about 25-35 minutes of sharing with plenty of time for questions, answers, and conversation in the rest of our hour together.

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Faculty Spotlight: Liz Knauer 🗓

Please join us as we hear from 2026 CTL Faculty Fellow Liz Knauer. For her CTL Fellows’ project, Liz embarked on ethnographic research that sought to provide spaces for faculty to learn from one another about their approaches to liberal arts reading, writing, researching and thinking skills in the context of widespread AI use.

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Strategies and Practices for Student Success: Starfish and Beyond 🗓

This workshop will introduce faculty to best practices regarding the Starfish platform, as well as the resources available in the Student Success Center, Undergraduate Advising, and Student Support and Advocacy. In the first half of this workshop, you will learn how to best use Starfish to connect students who may be struggling to the appropriate campus support services and resources to help them succeed in your class. In the second half, we’ll discuss other strategies and practices for student success in relation to communication, difficult conversations, classroom management, and more.

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Crafting Community / Making Meaning 🗓

Creative practices help us process uncertainty, build community, and find new perspectives on challenges. In this series, we’ll be engaging in various community building activities and creative exercises (e.g., collaging, origami, and more). We’ll meet in person in the East Reading Room (Library, 2nd Floor) on select Mondays from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

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Time Care Retreat with KPrevallet 🗓

n this workshop, we’ll reflect, play, and experiment to help you build your own system of time care—one that helps you relate to time differently now that the semester has started, free up mental energy, and make room for your creative/personal work & life.

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ViRC: Focused Work Sessions 🗓

Have you been pushing a task back on your to-do list?

Do you benefit from “study hall” sessions where colleagues quietly work on individual projects in a shared space?

Try out a Virtual Research Cave (ViRC)!

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CoPI – Fall 2026

As a means of supporting faculty as they create community around the issues that matter to them, we offer Pratt faculty a way of engaging in communities of practice or communities of inquiry (CoP/I).

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