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Charlotte Named a Member of the League of Teachers Institutes® in the Yale National Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools®
The Yale National Initiative announced on Friday, Oct. 23, that the Charlotte Teachers Institute (CTI) has become the newest member of its League of Teachers Institutes®. CTI, an innovative educational partnership among Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), Davidson College, and UNC Charlotte, joins established Teachers Institutes in New Haven, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.  Each Institute links one or two institutions of higher education with a school district that serves a significant proportion of students from low-income communities. Institutes focus on the academic preparation of school teachers and on their application in their own classrooms of what they study in the Institute.
“We are impressed,” Initiative Director James R. Vivian said, “by the enthusiasm for and commitment to CTI expressed by the teachers, faculty members and administrations of the three partner institutions. CTI promises to become precisely the kind of exemplary Teachers Institute that we hope to develop in each state.”
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Institute Participation Linked to Teacher Quality and Retention |
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A recent report released by the Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools, concludes:
- "Teachers Institutes significantly strengthen teachers in all five of the major dimensions of teacher quality."
- "They also include all seven elements now recognized to be crucial in successful professional development programs."
- "The study also shows that Institute participants had nearly twice the retention rate of non-participants in local teaching. Because research suggests that experience within a district is more strongly associated with teaching effectiveness than earlier experiences elsewhere, this finding is especially notable."
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Davidson College, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced the launch of the Charlotte Teachers Institute at a press conference on May 6, 2009. Davidson President, Tom Ross, UNC Charlotte Chancellor, Phil Dubois, and CMS Superintendent, Peter Gorman, made the joint announcement about the partnership, and Art Teacher, Beth Lasure, decribed how her experience with the Teachers Institute model has impacted her teaching and leadership. Over 100 people attended the announcement, including board members, faculty and administrators from Davidson College and UNC Charlotte, directors and staff from Charlotte community organizations, corporations and foundations, and CTI teacher leaders.
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