Teaching & Learning Lab

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Our Mission

The Teaching & Learning Lab (T&LL) is RISD’s hub for faculty conversation about and development of inclusive, asset-based, equity-focused pedagogies. We support faculty in the ongoing development of their pedagogical practice by promoting reflective and inclusive teaching techniques, fostering innovative approaches to curriculum development, and providing tools, reference materials, and resources faculty can use to address pressing issues in the classroom.

We offer interactive workshops and development opportunities, 1-on-1 mentoring and consultation sessions, and opportunities for cross-departmental dialogue on pedagogical topics. T&LL events can be proposed and led by any faculty member interested in sharing your practice or engaging in peer-to-peer conversation about teaching.

Book on a book shelf at the Teaching and Learning Lab
"Critical Thinking and Making with AI". Faculty Institute, Summer 2024. Photo Credit: Kristina Lamour Sansone
View of the offices at the Teaching and Learning, 301 Providence Washington Building

Who We Serve

Our programs and resources are available to all members of our community who are teaching and interested in further development in innovative and inclusive art and design pedagogies. We support and offer consultations to part-time and full time faculty as well as teaching graduate students. T&LL events are open to part-time or full-time faculty, librarians, archivists, or curators (including term appointments) or, when space is available, to RISD staff.
 

What We Offer

The T&LL offers:

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What's New

Vassar College Archives and Special Collections, "Student takeover of Main Building 1969"
Faculty Workshop  |  Oct 13
The First 3 Weeks: Building Historical Arcs for our Courses

Through readings, group discussion, and course re-design activities, participants will reflect upon the decisions they make in the first few weeks of a course, and the value of the texts, artworks, canonical debates, and theoretical frameworks they first introduce to students. 

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Students form a circle in a classroom. Photo by Kaylee Pugliese
Update  |  Sep 28
Meet the 2026-2027 Faculty Fellows

Naimah Petigny, Schiller Family Assistant Professorship in Race in Art and Design Assistant Professor of Literary Arts and Studies, and Falaks Vasa, Critic, Digital + Media, join the Teaching & Learning Lab as Faculty Fellows in 2026-2027. Naimah and Falaks will be offering faculty consultations and programming on a range of topics, including feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial pedagogies, embodied learning, writing pedagogies, first year student learning, collaboration, community-building, and joy in the classroom/studio.

Image credit: ‘Textiles and Tech’, Hanna Barak, Better Images of AI
Resource  |  Sep 1
Teacher's Toolkit: Fall 2026

The 'Teacher's Toolkit' is a resource intended to be used by faculty as they are getting started with a new term. It covers essentials but also includes materials on timely topics around inclusive teaching, student support, and learning technologies.

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Questions about teaching support? Send us an email at teach-learn-lab@risd.edu. 

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