Now that I've remembered how to post, here is my reflection #2.

After reading, I gathered that the main focus of learning communities is to promote change. It is about making time for new ways of working with colleagues to advance students. Teachers have support from fellow teachers, get to share ideas and create overall improved project based learning practices across the board. Some of the benefits of learning communities are decreased teacher isolation, increased commitment to the mission, shared responsibility, more powerful learning, and higher likelihood of fundamental, systematic change. This is always encouraged because other teachers can open your eyes to new perspectives and ideas of teaching that you may have not thought of. Teachers often share students so it is great if the students are getting some of the same great learning skills all around. Collaboration equals a more powerful learning system for both educators and students. To have a community there are certain components that should be shared among the members. First and foremost there needs to be a clear sense of the mission. This ensures everyone is on the same page with the same goals. Members should also share a vision of conditions to achieve the mission. They must work together in teams to determine the best practice. There should be groups with teacher leaders. The focus should remain on student learning for everyone in the community. Members should be goal and results oriented. Collectively members should share values, beliefs, full commitment, and consider themselves life-long learners. We have to always be willing to learn and accept that one will never know everything and everything. With all of these components, teachers could build an effective learning community. This chapter relates to my project and topic completely. We want to create a project of a classroom kitchen. The idea is to take all of the elements of potentially running a restaurant and give students a taste of all the work that goes into that. The group has to be on one accord with the goals and mission of this. All of the components mentioned apply to us while we strive to make this project successful.