It seemed essential after reading chapter 2 having strong learning communities is a great start to helping student become smarter well-rounded students. The  important purpose of learning communities is to push teachers to collaborate with one another. Teachers should work together to educate students because that can use each other's ideas that could be helpful in the classroom. There were multiple benefits of Learning Communities for teachers in chapter 2. Some of the benefits consisted of decreasing teacher isolation, increase commitment to the goal of educating students, and sharing the responsibility of creating a smarter society for the world. Being apart of a Learning Community is an awesome resource to have on hand. Learning Communities encourages teachers to learn to work together as a united front in educating their students. One of the best parts of teacher collaboration is having access to tips they will learn from one other in the Learning Community. Teachers use one another as guinea pigs for ideas they would like use before introducing it into the classroom. By doing this, teachers are able to improve lessons and correct any rough patches or correct spots with in the lesson plans. The overall goals is for educators help create smarter students through improving education from teachers who are constantly growing and evolving. Just as teachers, students have benefits from Learning Communities. Some of them happen to be learning to work with fellow classmates especially when there are struggling moments in the learning process. Students will be able demonstrate real-life skills such as communication and critical thinking. The three components of Learning Communities work cohesively together.By sharing ideas, communicating with one another, and learning more about PBL, Project Based Learning, teachers and students will become successful in education. I'm a BIG believer in networking with professors and fellow colleagues because you never know what will work in the classroom and having a few extra sets of eyes and ears can be really helpful.