Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Charlotte Reed, Ed.D.
Executive Director, CETL
Professor of Education

Dr. Charlotte Reed, Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of Education, joined the School of Education at Indiana University Northwest in 1992. She earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis in Supervision of Secondary Instruction from the University of Virginia. She is a product of urban public schools in New York City as well as of an urban teacher education preparation program through Richmond College (CUNY).

She served as a junior high school English teacher in Harlem, New York and a middle school behavior modification teacher in Charlottesville City Schools. She has been a teacher educator since 1981, serving large metropolitan area school systems in Louisville and Milwaukee, as well as the urban districts of Hammond, Gary, and East Chicago.

She has been certified as a secondary teacher, principal and supervisor. She holds a life license in teaching of secondary English. She has held leadership positions with increasing responsibilities since 1977 when she was a project director at the University of Virginia’s Race Desegregation Assistance Center. She served as the Executive Director of UTEP from 1994-2004. In 2002, she was appointed the founding Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at IUN. She is an international consultant on teaching and learning and her research interests include improving the quality of education, particularly urban education, through multicultural and invitational education.

She has been the recipient of several awards and honors for teaching, service, and leadership. She was appointed (1999), elected (2001) and re- elected (2005) to the Sunnybrook SD # 171 School Board in Lansing, Illinois. She was selected by the Neal- Marshall Alumni Club of Northwest Indiana for the “2003 Oustanding Faculty Award”. In 2004, she was inducted into Indiana University’s Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (FACET) and included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers in 2004 and 2005). She was appointed to the Boards of the Center for Regional Sustainable Vitality, the Center for Cultural Discovery and Learning, and the Vernon Park Community Development Corporation. She was nominated by Chancellor Bergland for Leadership Northwest Indiana and graduated in 2005.