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Vol. 1, No. 2, January 2013   
 
 
 
Editors’ Welcome 

James Marshall, Patrick Newell, Paul Beare 
California State University, Fresno 
 
This issue of Educational Renaissance is devoted to documenting the proceedings from the Fall 
2012 Joint Conference of The Renaissance Group (TRG) and the Teacher Education Council of 
State Colleges and Universities (TECSCU) at the Key Bridge Marriott, Arlington, 
VA, September 30 - October 2, 2012.  The conference, entitled  “The Proof of Effective 
Partnerships: Educators Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities Of the 21st Century,” 
highlighted outstanding examples of innovative partnerships in teacher preparation.  Here we 
present one article and the proceedings from five selected conference presentations, as well as 
the multimedia slides from five other sessions.   
 
We begin the issue with an article by Susan Tracz, Effectiveness of Teacher Education 
Programs: A Descriptive Aggregation of Supervisor Ratings of Teachers Trained by The 
Renaissance Group (TRG) and the Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and 
Universities (TECSCU) Institutions.  In the article, Dr. Tracz synthesizes data on employer’s 
ratings of teachers trained in fourteen TRG and TECSCU institutions.  Following the article are 
the proceedings from five conference sessions: 
• Kennesaw State University – Collaborative Clinical Practice by Jennifer Heckert, Toni 

Strieker and Maria Shaheen, Kennesaw State University 
• TRG/Western Kentucky University: All University Collaboration Model by Barbara Burch, 

Sam Evans, and David Lee, Western Kentucky University 
• SunBay Digital Mathematics: A Scalable Collaboration by Vivian Fueyo and George Roy, 

University of South Florida St. Petersburg 
• Winthrop University – School Partnership Network by Lisa Johnson and Jennie Rakestraw, 

Winthrop University 
• Innovative PDS Partnerships for Effective Teaching and Learning by Bradley Balch, Indiana 

State University	
  
	
  
In addition to the conference proceedings, the multimedia presentations submitted for this issue 
include: 	
  
• Transition to Common Core: Reinventing Collaboration by Virginia (Ginny) Boris	
  
• Three Models of Collaboration for Emporia State University by Kenneth A. Weaver and J. 

Phillip Bennett	
  
• The BEST Program: Butler/Emporia Students to Teachers by Kenneth A. Weaver and J. 

Phillip Bennett	
  
• Teaching 2030: Leveraging Teacher Prep 2.0 by Barnett Berry, Center for Teaching Quality	
  
• Hayward Promise Neighborhood: A Transformational Partnership by Carolyn Nelson	
  

	
  
 These presentations can be viewed by visiting http://www.renaissancegroup.org.