 Why do you think it's important to connect your students to the community? Well, the main reason why I think it's important for my students to connect with the community is because they learn a sense of civic responsibility. They learn about the issues that are going on in their Bellingham community and I feel that the students, they can learn what you teach them in the classroom when they can actually take it out of the classroom and bring the material to life, I feel that they get more out of it. So by going out into the community, they get more out of the classroom by being able to bring the material to life. And so for an example is I have a group that works for the CHOR program and the CHOR program is an assistant living program in our community that helps people with various disabilities, the elderly, and what they have is they have people come in and either clean the house for these members or they might cook a meal for them and so my students are engaged in that process and it's all about the helping but at the same time they're learning about that individual and so the CHOR program is a fabulous program that I've used for several quarters.