Partnerships

Comprehensive partnerships with some of New Haven's magnet high schools, such as the ongoing partnership between the Schools of Medicine and Nursing with Hill Regional Career Magnet High School, have become an important part of Yale's efforts. Established in 1996, the program now brings over 150 students to classes, labs, and internships at Yale during the academic year and also offers a free three-week residential academic enrichment program on campus for more than 60 students each summer.

Likewise, the collections, faculty and staff of the Yale Art Gallery, British Art Center and Schools of Music and Drama have become an integral part of the curriculum of the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School. With the move of the Co-op High School to downtown New Haven, more opportunities for partnerships to enhance the curriculum are currently being explored.

Partnerships with New Haven Public Schools

Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School Partnership (Co-op)

The Yale partnership with Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, a New Haven magnet school, offers students the opportunity to spend time on Yale's campus in classes, museums, and libraries as part of their coursework during the school year. Various departments within Yale also run professional development workshops for teachers.

Additional Co-op programs include:

O'Neill Studio at Yale
Offered through the Beinecke Library, the O'Neill Studio at Yale is a theater writing workshop and competition for selected Co-op students.  Yale students and professional playwrights teach participants about the work of Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and help them write their own one-act plays inspired by O'Neill's work.  Selected student plays will be performed at Yale and the winning student play will be performed at New York's Provincetown Playhouse the following year.
Contact: Pat Willis

Yale Center for British Art Class
The Yale Center for British Art team teaches a weekly, for-credit high school studio art class in the Center's galleries.  The class concludes with a student exhibition and reception at the Center, where family and other Co-op students are invited to attend the 'opening.'
Contact: Linda Friedlaender, Curator of Education, at 203-432-2855 or linda.friedlaender@yale.edu

Yale Art Gallery Class
The Yale Art Gallery supports a for-credit, Co-op art class each year.  The class is taught by one of the Gallery's curators and takes place once a week at the Gallery. 
Contact: Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Associate Curator of Public Education, at 203-432-3706 or jessica.sack@yale.edu

 

Hill Regional Career High School Partnership  

The Yale partnership with Hill Regional Career High School, a New Haven magnet school, provides more than 200 high school students with the opportunity to spend time on Yale's campus in classes, laboratories, and structured internships during the school year. Each year 15 to 20 Yale faculty members and 50 Yale College, Medical, and Nursing students tutor and support 8 different courses that are offered for credit at the high school.

Additional Hill Regional programs are:

Anatomy Teaching Program
Yale Medical students and faculty teach an anatomy class at Hill Regional High School.  Junior and senior high school students enrolled in the course visit the Yale Medical School twice per month to access the lab facilities.  Lab activities range from observation of dissected cadavers to using the slides and microscopes in the histology laboratories.
Contact: William B. Stewart, Associate Professor and Section Chief of Anatomy & Experimental Surgery, at 203-785-2814  or bill.stewart@yale.edu

S.C.H.O.L.A.R. Summer Science Program
The S.C.H.O.L.A.R. (Science Collaborative for Hands-On Learning and Research) program is a tuition-free, three-week summer residential program on the Yale College campus for Hill Regional students in grades 10-12.  Students study science and take SAT/college preparation courses taught by both Yale and Hill Regional faculty.
Info: www.yale.edu/onhsa/youth_scholar1.htm
Contact: Claudia Merson, Director of Public School Partnerships, at 203-432-8613 or claudia.merson@yale.edu

FIRST Robotics Competition
(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science Technology)
Hill Regional students - assisted by local companies, Yale students, and volunteers - design, assemble, and test a robot capable of performing a specified task in competition with other teams. The program demonstrates to students the fun and competitive spirit that can exist in science, math, engineering, and technology.
Contact: E. Smoker, Hill Regional Career High School at 203-946-4841 or esmoker307@yahoo.com

Discovery to Cure Internship Program
The Discovery to Cure summer internship program
is run by the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale. The program exposes students to laboratory research and promotes interest in science and medicine. Rising high school seniors from Hill Regional Career HS, and other high schools, spend six weeks working in a laboratory with a research scientist utilizing research techniques such as Gel Electrophoresis, RT-PCR, immunohistochemistry, and electron microscopy.
Contact: Irene Visintin, Department of Obstetrics,
Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, at irene.visintin@yale.edu

Dwight Hall Public School Internship Program

The Dwight Hall Public School Internships Program places Yale student interns at schools throughout the New Haven Public School District.  Interns match Yale resources to the needs of their sites and are currently placed in 20 elementary, middle, and high schools.  Interns serve for two years and spend 8-10 hours per week working at their respective schools.

Contact: Dwight Hall Main Office at 203-432-2420 or dwighthall@yale.edu

Yale School of Music:
Class of '57 Music Outreach Program

The Yale College Class of 1957 established a music education endowment to further advance the teaching of music in schools across the nation and the Yale School of Music's (YSM) outreach programs in New Haven. The Class of '57 Music Outreach Program includes the YSM's partnership with the Lincoln Bassett School, which provides comprehensive instrumental music instruction for all students in grades K-7.  The Lincoln Bassett partnership offers keyboard classes to grades K-2, choral and recorder lessons to grade 3, and band and string instrument instruction to grades 4-7.  Students participate in these music classes four times a week.  The Music Outreach Program also provides other New Haven Public Schools with YSM graduate student interns who teach weekly lessons at the schools as well as give free concerts.

Contact: Paul Hawkshaw, Professor of Music History, at 203-432-1970 or paul.hawkshaw@yale.edu

Yale Urban Teaching Initiative & Corps Fellowship

The Yale Urban Teaching Initiative is a 14-month program where students earn a Master of Arts in Urban Education Studies and a State of Connecticut Initial Educator License for grades 7 -12.  All participants also receive a Yale Urban Teaching Corps Fellowship, which provides a full-tuition scholarship and stipend in return for committing to teach in a New Haven Public middle or high school for three years after graduation.

Info: www.yale.edu/tprep/urban/index.html 
Contact: Teacher Preparation & Education Studies Office at 203-432-4631