This document is a collection of three papers prepared as a result of a mandate for a collaborative approach in preparing professionals for the public schools in New York State. In "Working through a Consortium," C. Michael Darcy, writing on the assumption that the consortium is the most desirable future state for the governance of teacher education, discusses some problems involved, organizational structure, and some affirmatives for using a consortium for solving governance problems. In "Consortia: Striving toward a Unified Profession," Robert E. Gabreys discusses the rationale for consortia, basic concerns in making consortia operational, and an effort to establish a consortium involving Syracuse University. "Collaboration: It's Worth All the Pain!" by Mary Mann includes a discussion on setting the stage for consortia, problems of collaborative decision making in education consortia, collaboration in performance-based teacher education, and guidelines. Two appendixes and a bibliography for shared decision making are included. (PD)