Public School Teachers Named Yale National Fellows for 2025

New Haven..... Fifty-eight public school teachers—representing sixteen school districts in eleven states and the District of Columbia—will serve as Yale National Fellows for 2025. The Fellows will participate in national seminars and an Intensive Session as part of the Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools®, now celebrating its twentieth year.

Thirty-nine of the teachers are from school districts that are planning or exploring the establishment of a new Teachers Institute for Anchorage, AK; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Navajo Nation, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Richmond, VA; San José, CA; Bryan and Hearne, TX; and Washington, D.C. Other National Fellows come from existing Teachers Institutes located in New Castle County, DE; New Haven, CT; Philadelphia, PA; and Tulsa, OK. More than half of the National Fellows are participating in national seminars for the first time.

National seminars are led by Yale faculty. They provide public school teachers deeper knowledge of the subjects they teach. Faculty and Fellows engage in seminars as colleagues sharing the common ground of being teachers. Each Fellow writes a curriculum unit aligned to their district's standards to teach their students about the seminar subject. Upon completion, the units are shared on our website

The 2025 seminars are:

• "Art, Design, and Biology," led by Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art
• "The Art of Writing and Revision," led by Jessica Brantley, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English, and Kim Shirkhani, Lecturer in English
• "Graphic Narratives as Teaching Tools," led by Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
• "Infectious Respiratory Disease," led by Jordan Peccia, Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Environmental Engineering
• "Teaching with and through Maps," led by Ayesha Ramachandran, Professor of Comparative Literature

Following a two-day orientation session at Yale in May, Fellows return for a two-week Intensive Session in July. Between July 8 and 19, they will live on campus, attend daily seminar meetings, and begin researching and writing their curriculum units with support from their seminar leader. Superintendents and other local school officials will join the National Fellows when the program concludes at our Annual Conference at Yale on November 7-8.

The Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools promotes the creation of Teachers Institutes for high-need school districts across the country. These Institutes follow the approach developed originally in New Haven and implemented now in other cities.

Teachers Institutes are partnerships between universities and school districts designed to strengthen teaching and learning in a community's high-need public schools. Backed by rigorous evaluations over more than three decades, Teachers Institutes strengthen teaching, student engagement, and teacher retention. They increase teachers' morale and enthusiasm and provide leadership opportunities for teachers that allow them to remain in the classroom.

Yale National Initiative®, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute®, On Common Ground®, and League of Teachers Institutes® are registered trademarks of Yale University.