The project entitled Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation in Pennsylvania was started with funds from an NSF grant and represented a statewide initiative to join science, mathematics, and education faculty of 12 campuses of the State System of Higher Education with teams of public school teachers, community college faculty, university students and representatives of business and industry.
This project facilitated systemic change in Pennsylvania by:

• re-designing teacher preparation and mentoring
• developing new professional development opportunities for teachers
• increasing the variety of pre-college and outreach programs available to encourage students and mid-career change aspirants to go into the field of teaching science or mathematics.

The grant was designed to change college curricula to meet new state and national standards for mathematics and science educators, partner education faculty with scientists and mathematicians, enhance student teaching supervision, and establish permanent science and mathematics centers on 12 campuses to coordinate and implement the project.
At Bloomsburg University, we were involved in "reforming" the way that math and science courses were taught.  Our primary goal was to move toward learning experiences that more actively engaged the student learner.  This involved working toward new models for student teacher supervision, for integration of the efforts of content and pedagogy faculty, for enhanced field experiences for teachers to be and for establishing a continuing partnership with K-12 schools and teachers.