Overview
In May 2020, Dr. Molly Buckley-Marudas and Dr. Shelley Rose, Associate Professors at Cleveland State University, founded the Cleveland Teaching Collaborative (CTC). Since then, Drs. Buckley-Marudas and Rose have led this interdisciplinary group of educators with support from Cleveland State’s College of Arts & Sciences (previously College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences), Levin College of Education and Public Affairs (previously College of Education & Human Services), and the Departments of History & Teacher Education. Technical Director Christopher Rennison joined the leadership team in February 2021.
The Cleveland Teaching Collaborative is a supportive interdisciplinary network of Cleveland-area educators from Pre-Kindergarten to Higher Education which was launched in response to the emergency shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main goals of the Cleveland Teaching Collaborative are to curate, share, reflect on, and analyze educators’ experiences of remote and hybrid instruction to improve teaching, learning, and student success. Over time, the CTC has evolved to share additional aspects of educators’ instructional practices and experiences. The project is deliberately designed as a collaborative to foster a professional learning community centered in Northeast Ohio. The CTC has created a strong network of educational practitioners and built an expansive, open access database of educational resources. Our efforts were recognized nationally by our peers in May 2021 when we received the Divergent Award for Excellence in Implementation of Literacy in a Digital Age.
- View our Project History
- Read more about our CTC Leadership Team
What is a Referatory?
The CTC Resource Referatory is not just a repository of content, it is a “gateway for locating and using” educational resources and repositories (Hart & Albrecht, 2004, p. 2). The CTC team does not host each resource, it connects educators to the content where its creators locally host and maintain it.
Referatory Quick Guide
The CTC Resource Referatory creates a "toolkit" of the many excellent sites, tools, and platforms available to educators. The Referatory consists of three main content types:
- Resources: A resource is an individual item curated by our team with our specific controlled vocabulary. You can browse these items through the curated tags, metadata (data about the resource), or the list of resources.
- Collections: Our CTC team organizes resources into collections to help you focus your search. These collections align with our collaborative projects, current topics in education, and current events.
- Showcases: We created showcases to offer a deeper level of curation and context for educators looking for toolkits on specific topics. Each showcase is curated by an expert on that topic, whether a member of our CTC team or by CTC collaborators.
See this 16-minute tour "Getting To know the CTC Resource Referatory" for a closer look at the project.
Getting to Know the CTC Resource Referatory
Contribute a Resource
Any visitor can submit resources to the CTC referatory using the contribution form.