Learning Forward
Communities of Practice
RESOURCES
Resources
Thank you for attending the Communities of Practice session at the 2024 Learning Forward conference. Check out these additional resources to assist your school community in launching its own Community of Practice. For more information, reach out to Crissy Mombela at cmombela@partnership4resilience.org.
Click on the resources below for links and documents.
Introduction to Communities of Practice
Check out this website from Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner that provides an overview of the concept of CoPs, its uses and other tools and trainings to further your knowledge.
Key Questions for CoP Creators
Reference this excerpt from Exploratory Research on Designing Online Communities,” by the U.S. Dept of Education (2014) to help guide your CoP planning process. Key Questions for CoP creators
Designing Virtual Communities of Practice
Short article to help develop a virtual Community of Practice to deepen engagement, build new ideas or provide feedback and evaluation. Tool – Designing Virtual Communities of Practice
Community of Practice Guidebook (Wenger, 2024)
This guidebook was designed to help orient social learning leaders in their unique journey. But it is not a recipe. While it reflects a wealth of experience in
diverse contexts, it does not offer an authoritative model to be implemented faithfully as a guarantee of success. It is not something that you should measure your success against either. Rather, this type of work takes a finely tuned antenna to the strategic imperatives, the contexts, the social fabric, and the resources at hand. (Wenger) CoP-guidebook-2nd-edition-Wenger-2024
Sample CoP brochure
Check out an example of the REACH Communities of Practice brochure for potential CoP members. CoP Spring Brochure 2023
REACH CoP Facilitator Guide - example
Check out the REACH Communities of Practice guide created for facilitators for helpful information about forming a CoP. REACH-CoP Facilitator Guide
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
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