Episode 344 - Communities of Practice (LISTENER CHOICE SPRING 2026)
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
A few years back, we contributed a book chapter on non-traditional options for disseminating behavior analysis with Matt Cicoria where we became slightly enamored with the idea of communities of practice as a means for knowledge sharing. Well, thanks to our amazing listeners on Patreon, that topic is back and with a full episode. We look at how to create a community of practice, whether the idea actually leads to changes in professional behavior, and what barriers might keep your new group of professional problem solvers down. Protip: Being in Canada appears to be a huge help.
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Articles discussed this episode:
Kerno, Jr., S.J. (2008). Limitations of communities of practice: A consideration of unresolved issues and difficulties in the approach. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 15, 69-78. doi: 10.1177/1548051808317998
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. Oh, hey there, Robert, Perry Cruz. It's me, Jackie McDonald, but I think it's you. I don't think so. I actually couldn't remember. Me neither, but I'm still doing it. I think so. It's 2026, though. Yep, it is multiple years that I've been going first now. |
| 0:38.2 | No? |
| 0:38.4 | No, 2025, you went first? |
| 0:39.9 | Oh, it's been a long year. |
| 0:41.5 | It's like a long December by Counting Crows. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:43.9 | We haven't done this in a long time. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, maybe. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm not sure what's going on. |
| 0:47.0 | We had a week off and it's being weird. |
| 0:48.7 | It does not take much. |
| 0:49.8 | It's getting vibes. It's getting vibes. It's me, Diana Perry Cruz. Hi. Oh, man. Well, we're here. We're ready. |
| 0:56.8 | This is a podcast that we're getting ready, I guess. It's a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research where every week we pick a topic and discuss it at length as well as relevant research articles. |
| 1:08.2 | And who boy, we need this topic now because it's really hard to be a podcaster talking |
| 1:13.8 | about behavior analysis when you get a week off. |
| 1:15.9 | And if only we had other people who are in the same boat as us, we could talk about our |
| 1:19.1 | problems, talk about our solutions, maybe get an expert in audio engineering, I don't |
| 1:25.0 | know, something to come in and just make life a little bit, a little bit easier for us. |
| 1:29.9 | Forever. |
| 1:31.0 | Fortunately, for us, we not only have a topic that we'll be discussing related to that desperate need, but it was chosen by our listeners. |
| 1:42.4 | This is our spring 2026 |
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