This program is based on the Learning Quest, Inc., Learning Community Framework. Several higher education institutions have been using this framework for five or more years. The following comments provide a look at how some of the participants have felt about this experience.

• "I have never worked so hard and learned so much," said one graduate," while finding a new focus and energy for my teaching."
• A high school teacher states, "I've learned that learning, accountability, and life are all the same things...and that all of this is meant to be exciting and fun."
• "Yes, my students' test scores have gone up, but more importantly they are better learners who apply what they know to real life issues and needs," another teacher reported.
• "I've begun to enter an arena of deeper understanding that the unknown is stronger (viable) than the known. It is the unknown that often brings the community of individuals together with a goal of team building."
• "The diversity of the group interwoven with the diversity of open, enjoyable, shared experiences created links / connections / bonds within our own learning community."
• "An awareness regarding my comfort level and finding 'my voice' came from my reflection on what environmental factors affected me when dialoguing in a learning community. A realization that dialoguing became easier when I felt safe, when my thoughts and words were heard, and assumptions or judgments were not made."
• "The technique of having individual group members discussing difficult concepts led to more learning "aha's!" than when sitting in a classroom with an "expert" teacher telling us the facts and then having us regurgitate them back in some traditional assessment. My teaching has been enhanced by the gifts of those learning community facilitators, and I thank them."