Discuss the impacts of Participating Learning Communities.

Participation in Learning Communities. You are asked to include information and evidence of your involvement in learning communities and clearly show how that participation is connected to student learning and your practice. This requires you to describe, analyze, and reflect on your participation in the learning communities relevant to you, your students, and your practice. The learning community may range from the classes you teach to your department, school, or district and may include your own students, the larger student body of your school or district, other teachers, administrators, school service personnel, and families. While the professional or student needs may be directly related to the subject/s you teach, you may include needs from the broader learning community, as long as addressing those needs is clearly connected to student learning and your practice. Include ways in which this participation impacts your practice of gathering and using information about students to inform your instructional and assessment practices and contributes to positive learning changes for students. Provide evidence of the need for advocacy, collaboration, and/or leadership on your part as well as its impact on student learning by submitting the following