A key leverage point for improving undergraduate education is preparing graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to teach effectively. In this session, I will present a model professional development program for future faculty. I’ll discuss the conceptual basis behind the program and its effects on the local institution. The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning Network (CIRTL) is a national association of research universities collaborating to change graduate education by training graduate students and post-docs to teach. Three core ideas form CIRTL’s conceptual framework: Teaching-As-Research – using disciplinary research skills to address questions about student learning; Learning Communities – engaging participants in shared learning around effective teaching; and Learning through Diversity – viewing diversity as an asset that can enrich learning. The Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning (Delta) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is CIRTL programming. It involves credit-based graduate courses, facilitated discussion groups, workshops, community events, a Teaching-As-Research Internship and a Certificate. Delta’s use of CIRTL’s conceptual framework has affected the campus. For example, (1) curricular innovations are developed and evaluated through Teaching-As-Research projects, which also promote cross-institutional collaborations (Gillian-Daniel and Walz, 2015). This type of capstone program has common elements that can be replicated at different institutions (Gillian-Daniel et al., 2015; submitted); (2) grant proposals that leverage Delta programming for broader impacts receive more research funding; (3) interdisciplinary STEM learning communities develop and thrive; (4) program graduates experience improved hiring and early-career success. CIRTL future faculty learn to apply research-based, high-impact teaching practices and to acquire data about student learning to advance their teaching (Pfund et al., 2012; Benbow et al., 2011). CIRTL’s conceptual framework provides a solid foundation for training graduate students and post-docs how to teach effectively to promote learning.