2025/2026 Fellowship Applications have closed.
We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2025–2026 Delaware Teachers Institute (DTI) Fellowship cycle! This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with University of Delaware faculty, deepen your expertise, and create innovative curriculum units that directly impact your students and classroom community.
If selected as a DTI Fellow, you will receive:
- $1,250 stipend for successful completion of the seminar and curriculum unit
- 50 Professional Development hours and a certificate of completion
- A University of Delaware ID card with access to UD facilities
- A published curriculum unit to share with other educators
- Leadership opportunities within the Institute and beyond
- Engagement with K–12 teachers across districts and disciplines
This year, we are excited to offer three dynamic seminars led by UD faculty:
- Fútbol is Life! The World Through Sports
(Sarah Trembanis, Seminar Leader)
Explore how sports intersect with history, politics, culture, and identity, using them as a framework to engage students across grade levels. - Organizing for Justice: Hidden Faces, Forgotten Movements
(Eric Rise, Seminar Leader)
Examine lesser-known civil rights and social justice movements, connect Delaware’s role to national history, and link past activism to today’s classroom conversations. - Fashion & Hope: Reimagining Systems Through Clothing
(Kelly Cobb, Seminar Leader)
Investigate textiles and fashion as tools for resilience, sustainability, and storytelling, blending science, art, and social studies. - Predictably Irrational: Understanding America’s Past & Present
(Adam Foley, Seminar Leader)
Examine psychological patterns that drove America’s darkest chapters and continue to shape our world today.
Eligibility & Participation Criteria
- Full time, K-12 classroom teacher in one of these subject areas: English, history or social studies, foreign language, art, health, music, science, math, or career area, if a vocational teacher.
- Intention to remain in the teaching profession and in the same school district, for at least 5 years.
- Close relationship of subject and course(s) the applicant teaches to the seminar and proposed curriculum unit.
- Willingness to help sustain the Delaware Teachers Institute during and beyond the year of seminar participation.
- Participation in all meetings associated with the DTI.
- Review by district curriculum specialist/representative and approval of school principal of applicant’s proposal, as consistent with and significant for school curricula, and confirmation of relevant courses applicant will be assigned to teach in the coming year.