2026 Institute for New Teachers-Atlanta

Before the lunch break, participants spend fifteen minutes in a structured cross-school connection activity. Seated by school type or division, tables are given a set of conversation-starter questions designed to move quickly past small talk and into the kind of genuine exchange that forms lasting professional relationships. Participants learn who else in the room is teaching their age group, navigating their first year, or wrestling with the same challenges, and they leave with at least one new peer they can reach out to after the institute ends.