The Cleveland Teaching Collaborative: Designing and Analyzing an Educator Innovation Hub

We are in an era of emergent pandemic pedagogies. Regardless of rank, institution, or grade level, instructional practices leveraged by instructors during COVID-19 are critical to the future of education. Despite the challenges faced by instructors around the globe since 2020, educators and support personnel have answered the call with candor, compassion, and courage. The Cleveland Teaching Collaborative (founded May 2020) is an award-winning interdisciplinary community of educators from pre-kindergarten to higher education. This group is a social design-based experiment where we research, reflect on, and support pandemic pedagogy and beyond. The Collaborative employs three methods for reflection and research centered on project vocabularies that break down silos and foster pedagogies of care: 1. Qualitative Analysis using Narrative Case Studies; 2. Archival Data curated in our Omeka-based Resource Referatory and oral history repository; 3. Peer-to-Peer Support is a professional development arena for instructors at all levels promoting student success and retention through interdisciplinary discussions and networks. With support from the FRD, our team is uniquely positioned to reimagine PK-University instruction, developing clear strategies for pedagogies of care and innovative cross-collaboration as we build on pandemic foundations to create a sustainable community of practice for educators in a postpandemic era.