Instructors and professors know from their experiences as learners that engaged, interactive, dialogical learning can enhance understanding and increase joy in the learning process. Yet many were primarily taught through traditional lecture-style techniques and continue that pattern in their own teaching. As a professor who believes learning should be fun and that increasing communication across lines of difference can promote social justice, the author has been striving for years to create community in the college classrooms in which she teaches. She defines critical community as interconnected people who assist each other in critically thinking through issues of power, privilege, and oppression through dialogue, critical question posing, and active listening. Critical communities help sustain social justice efforts and, in a higher education setting, create an atmosphere that fosters sharing among students that can enhance learning. One of the most valuable strategies the author has incorporated and refined as an aspect of critical community building is that of creating community commitments. The author provides eight steps to effectively facilitate community commitments.