adaptability & moving forward code webinar 4 26 january 2009 3:00 - 4:00 pm
TRANSCRIPT
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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]