School, parent and community partnerships have become an educational priority at both the state and federal levels. If teacher education programs are to meet the goals of the Illinois Professional Standards, the objectives of the federal Goals 2000, and the accreditation standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE,2002), the topic of school, parent, and community partnerships must be incorporated into the required curriculum, but even with these federal, state, and accreditation directives, little attention is afforded the topic in most teacher education programs. The Academic Development Institute, (ADI) contracted with the Illinois Professional Learner's Partnership (IPLP) to determine what colleges of education at the IPLP universities are doing to prepare preservice teachers to partner with parents and communities. IPLP is a partnership-based Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) project with the vision of changing the way universities prepare preservice teachers to teach in high need Illinois K-12. Five Illinois universities are partners in IPLP. Roosevelt University, Loyola University-Chicago, Illinois State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Northeastern Illinois University.