The Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools, which builds upon the success of a four-year National Demonstration Project (1998-2002), promotes the establishment of new Teachers Institutes that adopt the approach to professional development the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute developed and has followed since 1978.
Teachers Institutes are educational partnerships between universities and school districts designed to strengthen teaching and learning in a community's high-need public schools. Evaluations have shown that the Institute Approach exemplifies the characteristics of high-quality teacher professional development, enhances teacher quality in ways known to improve student achievement, and encourages participants to remain in teaching in their schools.
The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, an intensive and sustained collaboration among Yale faculty members and public school teachers, is the premier partnership between Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools. The first such university-school partnership to be permanently endowed as a unit of a university, it is a widely recognized model of high-quality teacher professional development.
“Principal Recognition Accorded to the Institute and its National Initiative” by individuals and organizations since 1978
A timeline traces the history of the Teachers Institute from its beginnings in New Haven to the recognition it received as an early leader in the movement for university-school collaboration, and its success in building on that recognition to disseminate knowledge of the Teachers Institute Approach. The timeline includes documents, photographs, and video programs from throughout the Teachers Institute's history.