Initiative Offers National Seminars

The National Seminar on "Reading Poetry of All Kinds: Pictures, Places and Things, People," May 2005. (Left to right: National Fellows Carolyn D. Clark, Richmond; Susan Hillary Greene, Atlanta; Mildred M. Espree, Houston; and Seminar Leader Paul H. Fry.)

In 2006 the Initiative is offering five National Seminars at Yale for fifty-five leading teachers from League Institutes and from selected cities that are planning or considering the establishment of a Teachers Institute.

National Seminars have the twin purposes of providing teachers firsthand experience with the Institute approach, while affording them an opportunity to increase their preparation and to develop a curriculum unit to teach what they have learned to their own students. Each teacher selected as a National Fellow participates in one of the National Seminars.

National Fellows must already be, or must be committed to become, leaders in a local Teachers Institute. Teachers selected as Yale National Fellows participate in an organizational meeting of the Seminars in May, and in daily Seminar meetings held during the Intensive Session at Yale in July.

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