Working collaboratively in partnership with professional colleagues, Prof Umesh Sharma, Dr Christine Grove, Dr Stella Laletas and Mr Simon Finkelstein, provided insights into their work undertaken on transforming pre-service teacher capability to teach in inclusive classrooms. Their work addressed a reported critical challenge in teacher education that relates to inadequate preparation of pre-service teachers to teach in inclusive classrooms whereby while pre-service teachers learn a great deal about inclusive education theories and strategies, they often fail to apply the knowledge in classrooms. The team demonstrated how, by changing teaching practices through university-school collaboration, and through the application of the '3H framework' – heart, heads, hands - they have been able to bridge the gap between theory and practice and thus have a positive impact on pre-service teacher preparedness. In addition to three quality publications, to date their work has resulted in the development of a new teacher education collaborative framework which will appeal to teacher educators in Australia and internationally, and which is likely to be adopted as best practice collaboration between universities and school.