Growing Together: Developing and Sustaining a Community of Practice in Early Childhood - Softcover

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key education resources, and is an expert in early childhood education and professional development. She works with the Division of Early Childhood (DEC)’s Community of Practice Committee.Megan Vinh, PhD, is an advanced technical-assistance specialist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has facilitated numerous communities of practice.Nancy Surbrook-Goins, MA, is the training and technical-assistance manager at a regional educational service agency. She is professional-development chair of the Michigan DEC and a co-leader of the DEC Community of Practice Development Committee.Sarah Nichols, BA, is a professional-development specialist at the Early Intervention Training Program at the University of Illinois. She specializes in community-of-practice development and design. She serves as the professionaldevelopment strand leader on the DEC Personnel Preparation Committee

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Communities of practice are an age-old phenomenon representing teamwork. Whether it's researchers developing treatments for a disease, artists collaborating to create a new art form, or educators sharing best practices to enhance early childhood learning, communities of practice are about connection and shared purpose.

Growing Together: Developing and Sustaining a Community of Practice in Early Childhood will help you define, create, and promote a community of practice to foster collaborative problem solving and enhance professional learning experiences.

You will learn key strategies and techniques to help you:

• Develop a shared vision and structure
• Leverage tools to invite members and build a community
• Build member engagement and investment
• Master facilitation and evaluation strategies for ongoing professional learning