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Page 1: Adaptability & Moving Forward CODE Webinar 4 26 January 2009 3:00 - 4:00 PM

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Adaptability & Moving Forward

CODE Webinar 426 January 20093:00 - 4:00 PM

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Welcome to Webinar 4

• Brian Finnigan• Michelle Forge• Thomas John Fauteux• Nancy Tully-Peever• Liliane Laforest– Council of Ontario Directors of Education

• Peter Levesque– Knowledge Mobilization Works

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Outline• Recap 2008– Projects, Regional Meetings, Webinars,

Summit, CODE Chronicles

• 2009: Leadership amidst Change– Adaptability– Ongoing Dialogue & Moving Forward– Discussion

• Necessary for Some, Good for All– Continues to be true– Actions to enable– SO Leadership

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Recap 2008• Projects: Framed as What, So What, Now What

– Now What is about Action• Regional Meetings: Issues, Priorities, Actions

– Focus on getting to Action• Webinars: Systems Thinking, Reculturing, Communities

of Practice, and now, Adaptability and Moving Forward– Focus on building capacity for Action

• Summit: Meeting each other to build Leadership– Leadership for Action

• CODE Chronicles: sharing what we know– Leadership that is built on evidence from practice

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2009: Yikes!

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Adaptability

• Survival = Adaptability

• Darwin is generally misquoted about survival of the fittest. The quote is actually:

• It is not the strongest of the species that survives...nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

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Images of Adaptation

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What is Adaptability?

• Adapt– to adjust (something or oneself) to

different conditions– to change something to suit a new purpose

[Latin adaptare]

• How do you see this happening for Special Education in Ontario?

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Leadership

• The position or office of a leader• Capacity or ability to lead• A group of leaders• Guidance; direction

• What does this look like for CODE Special Education in Ontario?

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Dialogue• a frank exchange of ideas, spoken or written, for the purpose of meeting in harmony

•How can Special Education Leadership in Ontario best support dialogue?

- Meeting of purpose- Supporting SOs

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Moving Forward

•What does “moving forward” mean to you?- CODE Chronicles?- Research with Andy Hargreaves?- Summit CD-CODE Special Education PD Funding 2008-09

-Open question to all participants

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Necessary for Some, Good for All

• Continues to be true• Actions to enable• SO Leadership

DISCUSS!

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Contacts

• CODE: http://www.ontariodirectors.ca/

• Michelle Forge– [email protected]

• John Fauteux– [email protected]

• Peter Levesque– [email protected]