Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading

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Committed to Educational Freedom and Self-Determination

The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading is guided by our School’s mission-vision and organized by our faculty’s purposes, principles, commitments, and praxes.

 

TLL Academic Programs

Minor in Secondary Teacher Education

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Bachelor of Science in Teacher Education

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CASE Teacher Prep Program

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Master of Arts in Teaching

MEd in Applied Behavior Analysis

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MEd in Curriculum and Instruction

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MEd in Early Childhood Education

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MEd in Education Leadership

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MEd in PreK-12 Special Education

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MEd in World and Heritage Language Education

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Orientation and Mobility Specialist – Certificate and MEd

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Reading Education – Certificate and MEd

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Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments – Certificate and MEd

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Applied Behavior Analysis Certificate

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Primary Plus: PreK-4 Teaching Certificate

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Supervisor of Special Education Certificate

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EdD in Education Leadership

EdD in Special Education

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PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture

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PhD in Learning Sciences and Policy

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PhD in Special Education

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About the TLL Department

Our Purposes

Our shared purposes are to:

  • Support the self-determination of peoples to practice knowledge traditions
  • Join in global efforts of collective educational liberation
  • Contribute to societal transformation toward freedom through our full range of educational endeavors
  • Cultivate rigorous intellectual praxis in educators

Our Principles

Our shared principles are:

  • Reciprocal and just relationality
  • Common cause and collective responsibility
  • Freedom through practice of knowledge traditions
  • Refusal of systems and structures of domination

Our Commitments

We are committed to:

  • Bold, collective study toward liberation
  • Struggling together in the internal tensions of freedom work
  • Learning, recovering, and recentering knowledge traditions historically excluded from our field
  • Collectively imagining and practicing free alternatives and futures Collaboratively cultivating freedom and justice in praxis

Our Praxes

Our shared praxes are:

  • Lifting up, studying, growing, and working across multiple liberatory knowledge and epistemic traditions
  • Building community through dialecticism, dialogism, and difference
  • Centering freedom stories and storytelling
  • Prioritizing the obligations of purposes, principles, and commitments
  • Embracing action and activism

Collaborations and Partnerships

Collaborative for Evaluation and Assessment Capacity

Provides evaluation and assessment services for organizations, agencies, and programs involved with children and youth.

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Falk Laboratory School

K-8 campus laboratory school affiliated with the Pitt School of Education.

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Forum for Western Pennsylvania School Superintendents

Provides professional development experiences for school leaders in our region.

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Tri-State Area School Study Council

Improves educational opportunities for children by strengthening school organization and administration.

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TLL Leadership

Sirry Alang (Interim Chair)

Gary Gabel (Interim Associate Chair)

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TLL Faculty Resource Center

Visit the TLL Faculty Center for a centralized hub of resources related to teaching, research, academic affairs, and more.

**The resources are on a secure website and are available only to faculty**

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