The concept of learning communities is not wrong, but the implementation has lacked depth. If we embrace the idea that our students should be critical thinkers grounded in metacognition, then we need to design learning experiences for adults that foster the same competencies because we cannot give to others what we do not possess ourselves. If we want our systems to be authentic—energizing environments for students—then we must create them for the adults as well. Deep collaborative experiences that are tied to daily work, spent designing and assessing learning, and built on teacher choice and
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