Construction Sector Community of Practice

The Construction Sector Community of Practice (SCoP) was launched in fall 2008 to help construction programs learn about effective sectoral development practices from their peers and to build ongoing relationships. The SCoP is funded by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), a national effort to support regional collaboratives across the country using sector approaches to workforce development. Recognizing that elements of the Sector Skills Academy were in sync with the goals of the NFWS, WSI was invited to create the Construction SCoP.

The SCoP involves in-person meetings, on-line discussions, Webinars, peer work, mentoring and the development of an on-line resource bank of information and tools. The ultimate goal is to connect people, facilitate knowledge exchange and foster more effective local implementation.

The construction SCoP is envisioned as the first in a series of sector-specific communities of practice. It is being jointly developed and delivered by WSI, Public/Private Ventures and the National Network of Sector Partners. Those three national experts in sector practice collaborated to start the Sector Skills Academy, elements of which inform the design and curriculum of SCoP.