Welcome to TATI's Lab Cohort V!

We are so glad you're here! Over the next nine months, we'll be working together to learn, reflect, and collaborate to strengthen and deepen our teaching practice. Let's get started!

About TATI

Founded by a generous grant from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the Teaching Artists Training Institute (TATI) was launched in 2020 and is guided by the belief that transformational music education starts with transformational training for teachers. Since founding, TATI has engaged more than 750 Teaching Artists across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, providing more than 6,000 hours of professional development annually. TATI equips teaching musicians with the tools and skills necessary to strengthen their teaching practice and be better prepared to support the more than 30,000 underrepresented students and communities they work with across the country. TATI is powered by Miami Music Project, which provides legal and fiduciary oversight, financial management, and administrative support.  

Cycle of Learning

Week 1: Lab Lectures

Lectures are designed to be highly interactive and technique focused, incorporating opportunities for reflection, peer collaboration, and strategic thinking.

Week 2: Do Now

Cohort Members are tasked with implementing 2-3 new teaching strategies in their own classrooms with the opportunity to observed or be an observer of their peers. 

Week 3: Peer Discussion Groups

Cohort Member engage in live discussion groups to break down challenges, implement new strategies, and compare successes.

Week 4: Self-Reflection & Evaluation

Cohort Members are provided with self evaluation tools to track their monthly growth as well as, methods to assess the growth of their peers.

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Lab Cohort Graduates

90,000

STUDENTS SERVED

98

COMMUNITY PARTNERS
"TATI has helped to ground me back into the ideals I have always had and has not only encouraged and given me the tools to be a better teacher, but to do so with an energy I forgot I had."
NAYELII DURAN
Chicago Arts and Music Project
"The lesson planning was very straightforward, you know, very methodical, and really easy to follow, and it was something that I could take immediately, and do the very next day to help with my teaching."
2022 cohort member
"I appreciated that [Lab 7] spoke about a sensitive topic that can be very uncomfortable to talk about. The lab gave enough room for people to share about their experiences without having the fear of being criticized."
2023 cohort member
"I was a performance major (music, trumpet) and I got into teaching sort of through side-doors, I don't have a teaching certificate. This whole TATI experience felt like it filled in a lot of the gaps of what I just didn't know I was lacking: culturally relevant programming and lesson planning, and reshaped how I thought about the larger arc of the school year. It gave me a big chance to actually put it into practice."
Vince Tampio
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