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What is Shared Work?
Shared Work is both a communication tool and a collaborative work space. It brings organizations, agencies, groups, and individuals together to communicate what is important to them, to learn together, to do work together, and to collaborate in addressing complex educational problems. Working in community enables these groups to seek out new approaches to persistent issues and to gain support from each other in implementing these approaches.
What communities can be found on Shared Work?
National Communities of Practice on Issues -- Issue-based communities are focused on particular topics of general concern. In these communities, the important topic brings a variety of stakeholders together to learn from and with each other in order to move this shared learning into action.
Communities in Organizations – In these communities, organizations help their members to coalesce around issues and interact with their colleagues who hold similar roles. Many of these same individuals also belong to issue-based communities where they interact with others in varying roles who share a similar issue focus.
American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
Practitioner Leaders: AFT and NEA
School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA)
Special Sites - These sites permit stakeholders to come together around specific emerging issues that may be time limited or ongoing. Some of these sites may grow into communities of practice. Other special sites may be dissolved when their specific needs are met.
Coalition for Parents with Intellectual & Cognitive Challenges (NACPIC)
Connecticut Task Force: Guidelines on Emotional Disturbance
New York Family, School and Community Collaboration
Virginia Early Intervention and Early Childhood
Special Events – Sometimes particularly significant occurrences call for individuals to come together to work as a community to plan, design, organize and implement an event. SharedWork provides a community space for individuals and groups to come together to meet their specific needs.
