Fostering Learning Communities Center collaborations encourage teachers to play an active role in designing and developing ways to evaluate instructional practice. The goal of the Center is to establish long term relationships between learners and teachers of all ages, in and beyond the classroom. These communities help to foster intellectual practices that use evidence as a way of building understanding. School improvement is tied to community development. Some of the most powerful tools we have in educational reform are communication technologies.
Education is a process of interaction among students and teachers.
But students do not all fit this set. By creating learning communities we can begin to address the diversity that exists in the classroom. Students can share expertise and learn from experts that are both in and out of the classrooms. The human resources for learning and teaching in any classrooms can be greatly extended. It doesn't make sense to expect teachers to solve the problems of isolated teaching alone.