Maker Space Lab is a vibrant workshop designed to facilitate hands-on, collaborative learning experiences, featuring a variety of high-tech and low-tech tools. Modeled after real-world maker spaces popping up at educational institutions around the world, this classroom is an engaging tool used to best prepare our pre-service teachers to enter the classroom as certified teachers.

Point Park's School of Education is prioritizing the role of mental health in education by training its faculty and student teachers on Youth Mental Health First Aid, a program from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing that seeks to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers and others how to help a child, ages 12-18, who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Grant funding makes this training available to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.

The School of Education offers Point Park University education students with two types of study abroad opportunities — student teaching in the fall and spring semesters and international field experiences in the summer.

The School of Education launched its Ed.D. in Leadership and Administration program in 2014. Graduates are leaders in the organizations in which they work.