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.

What's happening next at the CTL?

Week-by-Week Resources 

Weeks 11-15

Wrapping up the semester is a joyous but exhausting time. Things to consider before you take that much needed break:

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Recent posts:

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.

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Teaching Reflection Lab 🗓

In this 3-session program, faculty will come together with colleagues to explore their assignment prompts and examples of student work in order to explore, in community, the nature of learning as it happens in their classrooms.

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Miss Othmar School for Teachers – with Timmy Simonds 🗓

Intimate meeting for teachers to listen and reflect on the sound of teaching. Participating teachers will listen collectively to recordings of themselves teaching through a tool that distorts the quality of the audio recordings. The aim of this meeting is not to assess course content nor delivery of information but instead to listen for things like rhythm, embodiment, the environment, and transitions.

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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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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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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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Interactive Conversations 🗓

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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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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