Faculty Spotlight – Pratt Institute Center for Teaching and Learning

Faculty Spotlight: Making the Mundane Meaningful 🗓

Classroom management involves many mundane tasks: taking attendance, communicating with absent students, and so on. These duties are often undertaken in a routine way, in between the primary activities of teaching and learning in the classroom or studio. Join us as we hear from two Pratt faculty members—Dominica Giglio (HMS) and Micki Spiller (Foundation)—whose teaching practices transform these mundane classroom management tasks into meaningful and engaging activities embedded within the larger context of teaching and learning.

April 24, 2026

Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) Dialogues 🗓

This year, the Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) Committee is inviting the 2026 DTA finalists to attend an informal event that we are calling the DTA Dialogues. The event will be co-hosted on Zoom by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Academic Senate.

February 10, 2026

Analia Segal, Hablar Habitar: towards a new pedagogical blueprint 🗓

CTL 2025 Faculty Fellow Analia Segal from Fine Arts (SoA) talks through her project, “Hablar Habitar : towards a new pedagogical blueprint.” Analia discusses her desire to “see my research as an invitation to shift our focus toward relational and situational pedagogies—to reimagine the architecture of educational connections.”

October 28, 2025

Rychiee Espinosa: Failing Forward for Success 🗓

CTL Fellow Rychiee Espinosa (Architecture) walks us through her project, “Failing Forward for Success: Just Do It”.

October 20, 2025

Donna Bilak: Re-making Making 🗓

In this recording, CTL 2025 Faculty Fellow Donna Bilak from Jewelry (SoA) walks us through her project, “Re-making Making.” Donna hopes that this project will launch her toward developing an experimental studio-seminar that undertakes in- depth material analyses of everyday things to teach methods and multi-disciplinary collaboration through archival, physical, and digital research.

October 6, 2025

Cristina Pattuelli: Beni Culturali at the Intersection of Tradition and Transformation 🗓

Fellow Cristina Pattuelli talks through her project, “Beni Culturali at the Intersection of Tradition and Transformation.”

September 10, 2025

Kim Bobier: The Body and/as Technology 🗓

In this recording, Kim Bobier (SLAS) discusses her CTL Faculty Fellows project, “The Body and/as Technology: A Gateway to Transdisciplinary Course Development.” Over the course of her project, Kim has been thinking through transdisciplinary curricula around the body and/as technology in an effort to engage colleagues and scale existing models of collaboration.

August 26, 2025

Recording and Resources: Beyond Paywalls: Advancing Open Access in Academic Libraries (FLC.OAP)

This recording, and the accompanying resources, are from a presentation by Matthew Garklavs examining how Pratt Institute Libraries support Open Access initiatives. By exploring the financial and ethical challenges associated with database subscriptions, he demonstrates why investing in Open Access provides a more sustainable and equitable model for academic libraries.

May 6, 2025

Recording: Navigating Student Anxiety/Mental Health Issues (FLC.OAP)

Recording and resources from a general discussion, facilitated by Micki Spiller and Tim Cunningham as part of FLC.OAP, on the challenges that faculty face with ongoing issues of student anxiety.

May 6, 2025

Resources: Socially Engaged Reading with Perusall and Hypothes.is

View the recording, resources, and notes from a faculty spotlight presentation where Lara Allen (HMS) and Amanda Matles (SSCS) show and tell about two socially engaged reading platforms, Perusall and Hypothes.is. They discuss how instructors can integrate these tools to support peer instruction, reading assignment accountability, flipped classrooms, and active learning.

April 30, 2025

Category: Faculty Spotlight