Components

The SLN model has two primary components: the community of practice and the inquiry process. Each network creates a strong community of practice where the capacity for collaboration of individual members is developed in context. The foundational work provides purpose, meaning and context to the forum. 

 

While the foundational work is created during Phase I of the program, it is revisited and built upon throughout the cycle; it is the necessary pre-requisite for the inquiry process. This work provides purpose, meaning and context to the forum leaders will engage in over the first phase of the program, which spans the ten-month period coincident with the school year.