Articles are presented illuminating the effectiveness of cooperation between New Haven secondary school faculties and Yale University faculty working together at the Teachers Institute. The following articles are included: (1) "The Concept of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: The Primacy of Teachers (James R. Vivian); (2) "Encounter with a City: Education and the Promise of Local History" (Howard R. Lamar); (3) "The City in Black and White and Color: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Life in the City" (Robert Johnson Moore); (4) "The Play's the Thing" (Thomas R. Whitaker); (5) "Poetry and Paintings: Teaching Mood, Metaphor, and Pattern Through a Comparative Study" (Jane K. Marshall); (6) "On Batting .667: Three Courses for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute" (Robin W. Winks); (7) "Finding the Key: Teaching Detective Fiction in the Developmental Classroom" (Pamela M. Price-Anisman); (8) "Teaching a Science Seminar in the Teachers Institute" (Maurice J. Mahoney, M.D.); (9) "Teaching about Prenatal Development in Biology" (Elisabet O. Orville); (10) "Teaching Teachers: A Faculty View of the New Haven Teachers Institute" (Richard H. Brodhead); and (11) "Teaching Through: The University and the Development of Minority Literature" (Michael G. Cooke). Appendices include evaluations of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute by Ernest L. Boyer and Robert Kellogg; a summary of principal findings of questionnaires administered to 1982 New Haven teachers; a list of Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars offered between 1978 and 1982; and a list of information about the contributing authors. (JD)