In this case study, we describe a strategic initiative that partnered public schools with the fifth largest land-grant university system in the United States to improve statewide recruitment, training, hiring, and retention of K-12 teachers. This effort sought parallel implementation among nine university system institutions in partnership with community colleges and public schools statewide. Related school-university partnership and organizational alignment literature is explored along with the model deployed and current descriptive performance measures. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.) [For complete proceedings, see ED491481.]