Chapter 5: Cross-Pollination in an Unusual Setting: The Success Story of UTeach Dallas

The story of UTeach Dallas is both of one of success, and one of cross-pollination and leveraging in unusual replication circumstances. The success of UTeach Dallas can be measured by its expected ~35 new graduates/year, its 222 current graduates, its 90% five-year teaching retention rate, and the more than 150 STEM majors who give teaching a try each year. UTeach Dallas has balanced innovation with fidelity to the UTeach model. The program is well supported by the university administration with all fulltime faculty and staff funded on the university instructional budget. UTeach Dallas induction is ongoing, and has benefited from partnerships with other programs. Fundraising is an ever-present challenge that the UTeach Dallas leadership has been successful in navigating. Essential to the success of UTeach Dallas – and to the continued health of the small academic department that is its home – are shared faculty and resources within an ecosystem of efforts supporting STEM education.