The redesigning effort at the College of Education at the University of Maine at Orono, now in the second year of its implementation, stresses collaboration with those involved in education including university faculty, former students, public school teachers, and administrators. Decisions about what students at the College of Education should observe and do in the public schools for their preparation are made jointly by college faculty and area school teachers. On-campus course content is decided in the same manner; decisions are arrived at by consensus and no power hierarchy exists. A description is given of how representatives of the university faculty and the public sector are recruited, how they communicate with each other, and how a representative team of planners with the overall responsibility for leading the planning is established. In the implementation of the redesign, collaboration has become even more important as evidenced by public school teachers and college faculty involved in implementing the planned changes and educating preservice teachers. The organization unit for collaboration is a team composed of one university teacher educator, a graduate student, school representatives from each school in a district, and twenty freshman education majors. The current functioning of the collaboration and anticipated future developments are discussed. (JD)