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

2. 2 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

3. 3 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

4. 4 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

5. 5 2009: Yikes!

6. 6 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.

7. 7 Images of Adaptation

8. 8 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?

9. 9 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?

10. 10 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

11. 11 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

12. 12 Necessary for Some, Good for All Continues to be true Actions to enable SO Leadership DISCUSS!

13. 13 Contacts CODE: http://www.ontariodirectors.ca/ http://www.ontariodirectors.ca/ Michelle Forge – michelleforge@yahoo.ca John Fauteux – tjfauteux@gmail.com Peter Levesque – pnlevesque@gmail.com