Can y'all tell us a little bit about what communicate, community conversations are and how they came to be?

Awesome.

Yeah, I'll take that one.

Um, so the community conversations really came from the imagination of Sam Bassini.

We are looking at taking community members from all roles and getting everyone together, so K through 12 educators, people who are working in the college level, researchers, and practitioners.

This year, these are taking place instead of our traditional keynotes, which are wonderful.

It's lovely to get to have a keynote speaker.

And so going, getting motivated and going back to your home institution or wherever you're at is, is one of the best things that come out of BCCE.