Here are some of my personal reflections of the response to our findings in a recent piece of work. This research originally examined if and how collaboration has disrupted practice. It was submitted to the CORE Education Research and Inquiry Symposium at ULearn 2016. Lynley Schofield and myself are postgrad facilitators at The Mind Lab by Unitec and were intrigued by the disruptive potential of cross sector collaboration. The Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice (Digital and Collaborative learning) is a disruptive enabler, designed to bring teachers together to take part in constructive discourse and tangible collaboration through applied assessments. As we have developed and refined the course over 2 years and with 1700 educators we have enabled more collaborative assessments and discussion time, and heard less deficit theorising with educators blaming other teachers for their perceived shortcomings in learners from other schools. Photo: Lynley Schofield