Teacher Preparation Project
During the 1998-99 year, an agreement was formalized between North Branch Schools, Cambridge Community College, and the College of Education at SCSU to form the Teacher Preparation Partnership (TPP) . The school district at that time was projecting a shortage of well-qualified teachers at a time they were facing a large number of potential retirements. Furthermore, the district’s staff was also interested in being more directly involved in the preparation of teachers. A collaboration that would utilize the staff and expertise of the nearby Cambridge Campus of Anoka Ramsey Community College, the faculty of St. Cloud State University, and the faculty and staff of North Branch schools was formalized as the Teacher Preparation Partnership (TPP).
Since its beginning in 1999, the TPP project has jointly supported undergraduate elementary education degree programs, special education licensure cohorts, and special education masters degree programs. In the fall of 2003, a master’s in Curriculum and Instruction (C& I) was added and a second cohort in (C&I) began during the summer of 2006. A Sixth Year Educational Administration licensure cohort program were also added during the summer of 2006.
