Co-teaching and student-faculty partnerships are two approaches that independently facilitate significant conversations about teaching and learning. Written reflections from a module involving both approaches suggest that these conversations took place not only backstage (between co-teachers), but also on the front stage (with student partners). The interaction between co-teaching and student-faculty partnerships encourages the sharing of authority, resulting in shared decision-making (between co-teachers and with student partners) being a frequent topic of significant conversations. Our findings suggest significant conversations at the intersection of co-teaching and student-faculty partnership facilitate shared cognition and mutual trust and have important implications for academic development.