Tidball Center for Teaching & Learning
About the Tidball Center for Teaching and Learning
The Tidball Center for Teaching and Learning is a cooperative, community-driven resource dedicated to advancing teaching and learning through evidence-based practices. TCTL is committed to promoting opportunities for pedagogical inquiry, creativity, experimentation, collaboration, growth, and reflection.
The center’s mission is to:
- Promote the value and practice of excellent teaching both in and out of the classroom;
- Serve as a resource for professional development opportunities related to teaching and learning;
- Provide opportunities for faculty to share, reflect, and learn from the experiences and expertise of their colleagues;
- Encourage community-building as a means to improve and refine teaching;
- Promote active engagement and innovation in teaching and learning; and
- Act as a hub for knowledge of effective, evidence-based practices as well as a conduit to bring faculty together.
The Center for Teaching and Learning condemns all forms of systemic racism, bias, and aggression against Black people, indigenous peoples, people of color, and those of marginalized genders and other marginalized identities. We understand that excellence in teaching, by definition, must reflect our shared humanity and promote inclusive practices such as:
- being conscious of biases, racial abuse, micro-aggressions, and those who are minimized or left out;
- understanding and supporting those underrepresented in our Hood community; and
- promoting ways to actively foster equity, diversity and inclusion in our classrooms, research, and publications.
The CTL advisory board is committed to raising awareness of all those who have been systematically oppressed, and we call upon Hood faculty and staff to join us in this commitment to create a more inclusive world.
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