The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute and its National Initiative have long understood the importance of evaluation. Results of evaluations demonstrate that its programs can assist schools in specific ways. Studies have shown that the Institute experience has increased teachers' preparation in their disciplines, raised their morale, heightened their expectations of their students, encouraged them to remain in teaching, and has, in turn, enhanced student performance. Curriculum units Fellows have developed are used extensively in school courses.
Essays published in the Teachers Institute periodical, On Common Ground, describe the Teachers Institute Approach, the significance of that Approach for strengthening teaching in the nation's schools, and the ways in which the curriculum units participants write engage and educate students in their courses.
A study of curriculum units developed in Teachers Institute and National Initiative seminars found that curriculum units are clearly written, accurate, and usable by other teachers.
Reports describe the ways that the Teachers Institute Approach relates to education policy, the curriculum units teachers write and their uses, and the results of a longitudinal analysis of data from questionnaires participants complete at the conclusion of their participation each year.