welcome to the center for teaching & learning
dedicated to the advancement of learning ABOUT US
SERVICES
In September 2009, Windward was thrilled to unveil its Center for Teaching & Learning, a three-story complex that rivals a college library and serves as Windward’s gathering place for 21st century research, writing, new media production, and scholarship across the disciplines. By creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, and collaborative learning, the CTL enriches the learning and teaching at Windward, and provides a locus for conversations within the Windward community and with our university partners. The CTL is dedicated to excellence and innovation in education.
Our service philosophy is to provide the most supportive environment for faculty and students who invest their time in scholarship and learning. By bringing together the collective talents of faculty, library staff, information and instructional technology professionals, and other school resources, the CTL supports research and classroom instruction throughout campus.
Not so long ago, a school library was most likely a oneroom schoolhouse with books piled on dusty shelves, a librarian shushing children as they scratched pencils across paper. Today’s libraries are a far cry from the small-room model. Students do not merely book-learn these days. They have multiple learning styles, process knowledge in different ways, and accept technology in ways we never dreamed. Today’s library must keep pace with those advances.
PARTNERSHIPS In collaboration with expert faculty, the CTL is developing partnerships with university centers and libraries, such as MIT, Stanford, Northwestern, UCLA, USC, Middlebury College and innovative high schools such as Exeter and Lick-Wilmerding to ensure Windward students experience a seamless transition to college.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT The Center for Teaching & Learning helps Windward faculty to create innovate, cross-disciplinary projects that teachers can personalize for their own classrooms.
The Windward Center for Teaching & Learning does not aim to replace the old library but seeks to retain the best of a traditional library and integrate it with new technologies and understandings of learning styles. The CTL is at the forefront of education innovation for teachers and students, and prepares our students for rigorous university study, and helps produce people who embody the School’s philosophy of being well informed, ethical, and prepared. The Center’s Co-Directors, Jim Bologna and Larisa Showalter, collaborate with universities and with experts in a variety of fields to facilitate the exchange of ideas and new educational technologies. Our goal is to pair with institutions of higher learning so that Windward students discover in high school the joy of inquiry they’ll find in college.
center for teaching & learning