Spring 2026 – 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

2026 Summer Playground Institute: Inviting Time 🗓

We would be delighted to have you join our 2026 Summer Playground Institute; a playful exploration of serious pedagogical topics within a community of creative and curious Pratt faculty. We gather at the end of the Spring semester before Summer break (a liminal space-time) to joyfully hold inspiring questions and works-in-progress with each other.

April 14, 2026

Collaboration and Curiosity: Writing Intensive and Generative AI 🗓

This Spring Workshop series continues the Fall exploration of how generative AI is reshaping writing pedagogy in GenEd and Writing Intensive (WI) courses.

March 4, 2026

CTL Supporting Our Community: Trauma-Informed Resources for Faculty

In times of difficulty, having tools and practices that support ourselves and our students can make a meaningful difference. The CTL Team has gathered the following research-based resources to offer guidance and support.

February 24, 2026

Imagining a University for the Common Good: Higher Education and Its Values Reading Group 🗓

This reading group, starting in early March, invites faculty to engage deeply with urgent questions about the purpose and future of higher education in times of intersecting global crises through critical engagement with the book Transforming Universities in the Midst of Global Crisis: A University for the Common Good.

February 11, 2026

Creative Accommodations: Spring 2026 🗓

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in collaboration with the Learning/Access Center (L/AC), will offer the Creative Accommodations self-paced series again this Spring semester, punctuated with online synchronous Zoom conversations. The goal of this series is to support faculty as they respond effectively and appropriately to students with accommodations.

February 11, 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

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.

February 9, 2026

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.

February 5, 2026

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.

January 28, 2026

Tag: Spring 2026