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

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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.

What's happening next at the CTL?

New Inclusive Classroom Book Club: SP26
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Embodied Classroom Mediation: Spring 2026
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Canvas Webinar: Gradebook, Rubrics, Assignment Groups
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CTL Faculty Fellows Showcase
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Crafting Community / Making Meaning
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Week-by-Week Resources 

Weeks 1-5

Wishing you a great Spring semester! Here are some tips and resources you might find useful as you get started:

  • For answers to common questions about teaching at Pratt, see our Useful Links and FAQ page. 
  • At the start of each semester, the Learning/Access Center will share information with instructors about students in their courses with accommodations. Read more about this process, and how to best support students with accommodations, here.
  • Looking for information on Canvas LMS? Check out our revamped Canvas resource landing page.
  • The CTL’s Course Design Resource Hub has information about classroom practices and techniques, course design, feedback/evaluation and more.
  • We’ve revamped our Supporting Faculty self-paced series! Thank you to our colleagues who have taken the time to introduce themselves here – we have 19 offices included in this series so far, with more collaborations on the horizon! Click to join.
  • Considering wellness in your classroom, be sure to check out our new guide: Promoting Wellbeing Pedagogies in Higher Education.
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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, storytelling, origami, and more). We’ll meet in person in the East Reading Room (Library, 2nd Floor) on select Wednesdays from 12pm to 2pm.

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January 28, 2026

Embodied Classroom Mediation: Spring 2026 🗓

In this course participants will discuss and engage in physiological practices to self-regulate and improve ethical decision making for classroom facilitation. Interactive exercises will provide an opportunity for collaboration and exploration of personal challenges, offering practical tools to support growth and connection.

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January 13, 2026

AI and the Classroom: Open Conversation 🗓

Thinking about artificial intelligence? So are we! Join this open conversation to discuss artificial intelligence in connection to our fields of study, our classrooms, our cultures, and more. This session will be loosely facilitated, and we invite you to bring in your thoughts, questions, and concerns about how developments in artificial intelligence impact the Pratt community. 

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January 7, 2026

Interactive Conversations – Spring 2026 🗓

The CTL welcomes all faculty to attend our interactive conversation series this Spring around topics that YOU propose: anything you are curious about, anything you want to discuss with colleagues or things that come up throughout the semester.

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January 6, 2026

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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January 6, 2026

Canvas Webinar: Gradebook, Rubrics, Assignment Groups 🗓

Interested in transforming your Canvas Gradebook? Join the CTL’s Educational Technologist for this informative session and learn how to set up weighted assignment groups to accurately calculate final grades, create rubrics and connect them to assignments, change your gradebook settings to manually post grades, and more.

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December 19, 2025

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