Built Different: Innovating Education by Harnessing Student & Educator Identity - Touro Holmes Scholars Forum
Join us for the Touro Holmes Scholars Forum with Prof. Timothy Bellavia, Associate Professor, Alternative Programs and University Partnerships at Touro University
This forum is about connecting the unique qualities of students and teachers to uncover and understand the importance of enabling the underemphasized and influential attributes of individual expression and distinctiveness within the formal teaching and learning process.
About the Presenter
Timothy Bellavia, M.F.A., is an Associate Professor in the Alternative Programs and University Partnerships within the Graduate School of Education at Touro University. Throughout a career in higher education and the arts, he has collaborated with non-profit organizations, including Sesame Workshop, the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation, and the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. Recognized for his contributions to pedagogy and creative integration, he received Education Update’s Outstanding Educator of the Year Award and has won numerous arts and digital education honors. Professor Bellavia served as an integral researcher on Young Academic Music (YAM), a landmark five-year project funded through an Education Innovation Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). Beyond his academic work, he is the founder of T.I.M.M.-E. Co. Inc., a dynamic multimedia studio dedicated to crafting innovative arts media, fine art, and intergenerational arts education programming.
