Download Webinar 4 - Council of Directors of Education

Adaptability & Moving Forward
CODE Webinar 4
26 January 2009
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Welcome to Webinar 4
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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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• Recap 2008
Outline
– 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
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• 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
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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]
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