Reading Reflection #2 Chapter 2

• A Learning Community is very important in the professional level. It can make your professional life more productive and satisfying. They focus on three big, student-centered ideas. They are, ensuring that students learn, create a culture of collaboration for school improvement, and focus on results. This is focusing on what you teach to what your students learn.
• There are benefits to these Learning Communities. The benefits include decreasing teacher isolation, increased commitment to the mission, shared responsibility, more powerful learning, and a higher likelihood of fundamental and systemic change.
• Learning Communities can affect teachers in certain ways. It can bring teachers together into a team to collaborate and make the most of their situation and purposes. It can make the teachers work together in a team in order to make sure they are on the same page of where the students' learning comes first. It also affects the students. It can help them with project-based learning skills and helps students feel better that they are actually part of a community for learning. Everyone in that community is focused on getting the same things done. In rest, giving each other motivation to get things done and become productive and successful.
• All members of the community  should share the same components. These components are, having a clear sense of mission, a shared vision of the conditions they must create to achieve the mission, work together in collaborative teams, organizing into groups headed by teacher-leaders, focus on student learning, are goal- and result-oriented, collaborate with each other, hold shared values and beliefs, commit themselves to continuous improvement, and seeing themselves as life-long learners.
• The discussion of Learning Communities relates to the project I am doing because I am also working in a Learning Community. I am involved in a team and we share ideas and make sure we are all on the same page of things in order to succeed in the project. As a group, we are always focused and committing ourselves to improvement of our project.