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Web Resources for Communities of Practice

Links to helpful websites dealing with Communities of Practice.

Weblink References

Communities of practice and organizational performance
by E. L. Lesser and J. Storck
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/lesser.html

Communities of Practice at the Federal Highway Administration
by Mike Burk
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/mayjun00/commprac.htm

Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System
by Etienne Wenger
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml

Community of Practice Overview by Fred Nickols
http://home.att.net/~discon/KM/CoPOverview.pdf

IDEA Partnership Communities of Practice
http://ideapartnership.org/page.cfm?pageid=29

NASDSE Synthesis Brief: Communities of Practice; activities sponsored by the Office of Special Education Programs
http://www.nasdse.org/publications.cfm

Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Practice- by Margaret Wheatley
http://www.berkana.org/resources/pioneeringleader.html

Additional Readings
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/rreading.shtml

http://www.tacommunities.org/ev_en.php?ID=1197_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

Non-Internet References
American Institutes for Research (2005). Third-Party Evaluation of the OSEP Communities of Practice (COPs) Initiative: A Report of Findings from the Second Facilitators Interview and COPs Member Survey. Washington: Division of Research to Practice, Office of Special Education Programs.

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., $ Snyder, W. (2002). Cultivating Communities of Practice. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Other Communities of Practice

The Student Progress Monitoring Center
http://www.studentprogress.org/default.asp

Progress Monitoring Discussions & Newsletter
http://www.studentprogress.org/discusshome.asp

ACCESS Center
http://www.k8accesscenter.org/sharing/default.asp

Discussion rooms link:
http://www.k8accesscenter.org/discuss/discuss.asp

SIGnetwork – State Personnel Development Grant Network
Signetwork has had a discussion list and archives posted for quite some time now, and will be moving to the bulletinboard format.
http://www.signetwork.org/

Link to Archives:
http://www.signetwork.org/New_SigNet/archives.shtml

Additions to this List
Please send suggestions for additions to this resource list to Cynthia Rosacker Glimpse,

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