Changes in the social demography of the United States call for increasing multicultural collaboration, consultation, and cooperation at educational and leadership levels. General and special educators must learn to collaborate, consult, and cooperate with each other if they are serious about addressing local, national, or global problems. The Comprehensive Support Model is proposed as a way to connect family, schools, and the community to foster educational excellence. Ten guiding principles for use by general and special educators attempting to collaborate, consult, and cooperate are presented, including, among others: an inclusive classroom is a classroom that values cooperative learning and teaching; all service providers have to relate to each other with the student as the dominant person; both caring and sharing are important; and the strategic positions of people must be respected and expectations of them must not alienate or label them as individuals with deficits. (Contains 21 references.) (DB)