The Teacher Renewal Fellowship (TRF) consists of exploring three themes and their supporting principles: Embracing Your Philosophy, Engaging Your Students, and Empowering Your Pedagogy.

The Embracing Your Philosophy theme sets a strong foundation for the foundation by guiding fellows in the clarification of their teaching methods with an in person residency day, an online learning opportunity and a cohort session. Engaging Your Students begins with another independent online learning session followed by a cohort session to review and process the tools shared. Finally, Empowering Your Pedagogy brings the fellowship class back together for another residency session to solidify and customize the tools gained over the last few months for each teacher before ending with a final cohort session for reflection.

Different from most professional development programs, the fellowship journey is as personalized as possible, encouraging individual teachers to gain and apply insights related to their unique situation. 

Themes and principles are explored through residency and cohort days, using a hybrid approach of both in-person and virtual gathering as well synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. In person gatherings will take place at one of The Oaks Academy’s campuses in Indianapolis, IN.