Coming Together to Learn, Educate, and Lead: Developing Partnerships for Successful Accreditation Developing and Using Quality Partnerships

One of the positive outcomes of the accreditation process is the strengthening of partnerships between the college’s teacher education program, the K-12 schools, government agencies, and community organizations. In this chapter we describe and examine how the College of Education (COE) at Zayed University (ZU), the first teacher preparation program to obtain National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accreditation outside of the United States, develops and uses its partnerships for the successful preparation of teachers.