Each year, teachers are nominated by their districts to participate in the Jennings Educators Institute in the fall. Any of those teachers can choose to continue on as a Jennings Action Research Fellow for that school year in order to put what they learned into practice and to reflect and collaborate together as a professional learning community. In addition to the three weekend workshop meetings as part of the Institute, the Fellows attend a session in December to collaborate with professional peers and to plan a unit for implementation.

To be a Jennings Action Research Fellow, teachers are required to incorporate the ideas presented by the Jennings Institute and to use a research lens to reflect on the experience. Fellows present to their professional peers about how the teaching strategies impacted students and enhanced their own personal practice.