Engaging Educators: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Communities of Practice in the USA

Coming together to share a passion, interacting regularly in collaborative work and enhancing learning that empowers others to grow along with you are key components to building a Community of Practice (CoP). For educators, CoPs provide opportunities to learn from and with one another in a learning community focused on teachers’ needs (Grossman et al., 2001; Tannehill & MacPhail, 2017). They enable us to develop individually and collectively, engaging in a process of mutual learning through social interaction and collaboration (Wenger-Trayner & Wenger-Trayner, 2015). Hadar and Brody (2010) assert that CoPs do not occur randomly, but they are actually intentionally