What if, this summer, you could hone your teaching skills, become a more confident educator, build a network of amazing colleagues from around the world, and return to your school with fresh eyes and new energy?
The Klingenstein Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (KSI) is a highly-selective, fully-funded fellowship that provides an intensive, graduate-level professional learning experience for teachers with 1-5 years of full-time teaching experience. Participants in this prestigious program explore curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment design in their teaching discipline, informed by current research and practice in three key areas: mind brain education; equity, inclusion, and belonging; and, social-emotional learning - all to better understand and design for how students learn, grow, and thrive.
You'll engage in seminars facilitated by experts on essential topics, such as developing your teaching philosophy, the impact of AI, and cognitive science. You'll work fellow teachers from your academic discipline to examine subject-specific teaching practice and to develop curriculum and tools that you can use immediately. Curriculum groups include Elementary Education, English, History, Modern and Classical Languages, Math, Science, and Experiential Education.
The curriculum of the summer institute is guided by the KSI Competencies, a set of skills and habits that describe what early-career educators need to know and do in order to set themselves and their students up for success. Through out KSI, you'll work to build your capacities the 4 major areas below. Expand each competency to see examples of specific learning outcomes that will enhancing your teaching and leadership practice.
If accepted, you will receive a fully-funded fellowship for the program, which covers all tuition, fees, housing and meals during the program. Upon successful completion of the academic program, you'll earn four graduate-level credits from Teachers College, Columbia University which may be applied to future study, including the Klingenstein Center's Masters Degree Programs in Independent School Leadership. Most essentially, you'll finish the program affirmed, inspired, and equipped to continue to improve as a teacher and advocate for your students.
KSI is intensive residential professional learning program held at The Chauncey Center in Princeton, NJ. Outside of class, you will enjoy delicious meals and relaxing surroundings. Visit the gym or pool, meet up with your study group on the terrace, or visit downtown Princeton with a classmate. When you depart at the end of the program, you'll be a part of a global network of educators who will be a part of your professional learning network for years to come.
Your KSI experience begins with your application via the Teachers College Office of Admissions. Applications are closed for KSI 2025. If you would like to be notified when the KSI 2026 application opens, please complete the Contact Us form and specify "KSI" as your program of interest.
