Teacher Leadership

For New Haven schools, teachers represent their colleagues in planning, organizing, and conducting the program. This ensures that teachers may have a direct role in designing the Institute to meet their own needs for further preparation and the needs of their students, and to support school plans that implement district academic standards.

Between September and December of each year, the teachers who serve as School Representatives canvass their colleagues and determine the topics they would like the Institute to cover. The Institute organizes seminars that address teachers' interests. Representatives work throughout the year within their respective schools and with their colleagues in other schools; they meet together at least twice monthly from September until February. The Steering Committee supports and oversees the work of the Representatives.

Seminar Coordinators

A teacher acts as Coordinator of each seminar to provide teacher leadership and help maintain collegial rapport within the group. Coordinators are selected in January and serve through July, resolving any scheduling or other problems and facilitating the smooth operation of the seminars. On the recommendation of the Coordinators, the Director may withdraw from the Institute any Fellow whose continued participation they deem to be detrimental to the program.