This is an overview of the time commitment of FUSE activities for teachers entering their first year of Fellowship for the 2025-2026 school year:
Summer Professional Learning Institute (PLI)
The summer PLI is designed to accommodate your busy schedule with a blend of both synchronous and asynchronous options.
Depending on your school calendar and summer schedule, there are two launch dates; it's up to you to choose which date you start. Regardless of when you begin, you will receive a link to your required Pre-PLI work 10 days before your launch date. The Pre-PLI work takes roughly 90 minutes to complete.
Launch Date #1 - June 18th, 2025 (Pre-PLI work shared on June 8th)
- Join the live synchronous session on June 18th from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central Time.
- You will then have, from June 19th to the week before your first day of the instruction for the 2025-2026 school year, to complete three Library of Practice modules in Canvas. Each module takes roughly 90 minutes to complete.
- If you choose to start on Launch Date #1 but are unavailable on June 18th, then you will have an additional module to complete in Canvas, which will take roughly three hours.
Launch Date #2 - July 8th, 2025 (Pre-PLI work shared on June 24th)
- Join the live synchronous session on July 8th from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central Time.
- You will then have, from July 9th to the week before your first day of the instruction for the 2025-2026 school year, to complete three Library of Practice modules in Canvas. Each module takes roughly 90 minutes to complete.
- If you choose to start on Launch Date #2 but are unavailable on July 8th, then you will have an additional module to complete in Canvas, which will take roughly three hours.
Virtual Kick-Off Meeting (All Fellows)
- Each Monday and Wednesday at 2:00 Central Time starting in late July and running through Labor Day, we will hold a 30-minute virtual meeting to review the process for administering your Student Engagement Modules. Each fellow will register to attend one meeting the week before their first day of instruction with students. We will show you how to register in Canvas. If you are an international fellow, we will arrange an alternative time that suits you.
School Year Commitments
Teachers are assigned to one of two groups (Blue or Gold) during the school year for Professional Learning Institutes and Virtual Coaching sessions. Teachers will learn their group assignment in mid-June 2025. All sessions are virtual and available either synchronously or asynchronously.
2 Professional Learning Institutes (requires classroom coverage if attending synchronously)
Fall PLI (8:30 am - 4:00 pm Central Standard Time)
Blue Year 1 Group October 22nd, 2025
Gold Year 1 Group October 29th, 2025
Spring PLI (8:30 am - 4:00 pm Central Standard Time)
Blue Year 1 Group February 4th, 2026
Gold Year 1 Group February 11th, 2026
4 virtual coaching sessions (September, November, January, and April), with multiple scheduling options outside the school day: 4 sessions, 60 minutes each