The CTTL’s Crimsonbridge Research Center is part of the long-term partnership that began in 2007 between St. Andrew’s and the leaders of the Crimsonbridge Foundation. Together, the school and foundation sought to elevate teacher understanding and use of the Science of Teaching and Learning to inform, validate, and transform how teachers designed their classes and worked with individual students to meet their full potential. Knowing and translating the most promising research and strategies in the Science of Teaching and Learning and how the brain learns is foundational to educational excellence.
The Crimsonbridge Research Center opened in St. Andrew’s Student Center in 2016. It is the hub for The CTTL team’s work and engagement with St. Andrew’s teachers, students, and parents. It is also a destination for teachers, school leaders, and policymakers from around the world who want to learn more about the pathways for 100% of St. Andrew’s teachers becoming research-informed and how to become a research-informed school or district themselves.
The founding team of The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning from (L-R) Preston Calvert, Anne Wallace, Robert Kosasky, Glenn Whitman, and Gabriella Smith
Glenn Whitman, Dreyfuss Family Director of The CTTL and Gabriella Smith, Crimsonbridge Founder and Executive Chair in front of the CTTL Crimsonbridge Research Center
Over the years, the Crimsonbridge Research Center has been the incubation space for research-informed experiences and tools such as The CTTL’s internationally recognized Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy, Neuroteach Global, Neuroteach Global Student, and The CTTL’s annual Winter Webinar series.
Daily, St. Andrew’s teachers and Omidyar Faculty Fellows use this space to engage with The CTTL’s research leads, and students come to seek out the most promising learning and studying strategies to become more efficient, confident, and higher achieving in their intellectual pursuits. The Crimsonbridge Research Center is also the convening space for The CTTL/Finn Student Research Fellows. Each year, this group evaluates research as part of a project that seeks to inform school policy and student experiences in and out of the classroom.
St. Andrew’s and its Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning has greatly benefited from its intellectual and philanthropic partnership and friendship with the Crimsonbridge Foundation.
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Visitors to the CTTL
Elementary educators from Holland Hall School visiting the CTTL and it Crimsonbridge Research Center
The CTTL team is visited by Jared Joiner as part of its collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Institute (CZI) who supported the design of the CTTL’s innovative Neuroteach Global tools.