 Community of practice is a group of teachers and people who facilitate the community practice and we work together online face-to-face and we learn together. There's definitely a benefit to having these face-to-face meetings because you get to hear what everybody else is going through. You get to hear more about what a self-contained classroom looked like, what an inclusive classroom looked like. Being involved in a community of practice really has made me feel like there are other people out there who are facing the same challenges as me and that I'm not alone and we can work together to try and solve some of those problems. Working with this population of students is often quite isolating because there's not a lot of other students who have this level of disability. So when you can bring together a lot of different people across Alberta who work with this population of students and we can get together face-to-face. We can talk together online. We start to see some of the things that we're doing that are common and we can grow our knowledge from that. I think I bring the same thing everybody else brings and that's just your experience. Everybody has faced many different challenges over their years of teaching and so just being able to share what you've done in a certain situation. It might be really helpful to someone else. Anytime you have other people that you're working with it's always a benefit because no matter how easy something seems you're going to need somebody as a sounding board. So it was great to have the community there when I needed something I could kind of go on and I could post a question and is anybody else having problems with this and we could you know bounce ideas off each other or sometimes somebody would just volunteer and answer or share something that they were doing in their classroom and it would kind of answer a question maybe you didn't even know you had but also it might be like a stepping stone for you to oh yeah, that's a great idea. I could change that and make that work in my classroom and so that was really great. Anytime that I kind of wasn't sure what direction I needed to be going or what I needed to be doing or if I was confused about something guaranteed there was an answer there. The community of practice has been fabulous. I've enjoyed every minute of it, and I'm going to be really sad at the end of the year when it's done. I think as teachers we sometimes forget how much we can learn from other teachers and being part of the community of practice has reminded me of that.