It's about establishing a collaborative professional learning community,

Those larger gains can be explained by the charter school model of a focused learning community.

You have to listen to the community.

Every year I've been nervous about learning new dives. That's why my degree of difficulty is not that great. I learned new ones (this year) like an inward one and a half and a front double. That was a big stride for me. They are not the greatest or the biggest dives, but they got me where I am.

Basically, it's just to thank the sign sponsors and thank the community for their participation in the light project.

We finally got enough support and enough funding from the community from the sign program to go ahead with this project. It was a big commitment to take on because we did not have the signs sold before we committed to the project. We pushed the sign sale and the community stepped right up and helped us out.