Two conference papers describing various collaborative arrangements within the educational community among teachers, students and others are presented in this document. The first paper, "Successful Collaborations" (Eugene Cota-Robles), describes the following projects in California that seek to forge collaborations to improve the education of minority students: (1) MESA--mathematics, engineering, science, and achievement, initiated at the School of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; (2) the California Writing Project; (3) the California Mathematics Project; (4) the linguistic minority project; (5) the Black Eligibility Study; (6) PUENTE, which uses mentors from the Hispanic community to advise both students and counselors at community colleges; and (7) Project TEAMS--Teaching Excellence and Achievemennt in Minority Schools. In the second paper, "Forging Collaborations" (Winston Doby), education is described as a team sport: successful collaborations can produce a synergistic effect, whereby the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. (BJV)