The Renaissance was a cultural movement initiated in Florence, Italy, during the late Middle Ages and later spread to the rest of Europe, focusing on the improvement of various disciplines through a revival of ideas from antiquity. The influence of the Renaissance movement affected art, literature, philosophy, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. What does the Renaissance movement of fourteenth century Italy have to do with The Renaissance Group (TRG) of 21st America? The times and places may be very different, but as we review TRG's contributions to teacher education from the 1980s to the present (a time during which The Renaissance Group laid a strong foundation to shape this national consortium of colleges, universities and professional organizations) we may discover more similarities between the two than imagined.