Student Engagement, Teaching & Learning Practices

We all have done it in our classrooms – we have THAT lesson where we figured out a new way to explain a concept to previous befuddled students or developed an activity that engaged our students in learning like never before. Student Engagement, Teaching & Learning Practices sessions are designed to give you a chance to share what you are doing in your classroom, or come and learn from the ideas and practices of others. If you are doing something new that is working, you are encouraged to present one of these sessions.
These sessions are parts of a larger plan to enhance students’ creativity, problem solving, and critical thinking. Teachers can take these sessions individually according to their needs. However when combined in total, they illustrate the creation of a Project-based learning classroom environment.

Collaborate

Center Partnership and Task Forces

Participate in online monthly Center Partnership and Task Force meetings which convene more than 40 deans, chairs, directors, and education faculty, as well as PK-12 administrators and teachers and leading educators to explore key issues in preparation, practice, teaching, learning, and leadership. Our current work includes advocating for equity and diversity, implementing culturally responsive practices, growing teacher leadership, and effecting rigorous recruitment, clinical preparation and retention policies and practices.

The Center’s Task Forces are working groups that convene leading
PK-20 educators to advance critical education initiatives by bringing the best known research forward and collaborating on evidence-based practices and policies to implement in education preparation and practice programs. The Center’s working task force teams include:

  • Literacy
  • Teacher Leader
  • Diverse Pipeline:  Project LEAD (Leaders in Education Advocating for Diversity)
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards
  • Professional Learning
  • Mathematics
  • Special Education

Center Partners are encouraged to join one or more task
force groups.