1. Steering Committee: Ontario Regulators for Access Edwina McGroddy Presented at CLEAR's 23rd Annual Conference Toronto, ON September 2003

2. Genesis of Project: Spring 2000 n Regulators Talk to Each Other n Meetings facilitated and hosted by the Maytree Foundation

3. Educational Sessions n Competency-based Assessment n Scanning the Horizon: Access Issues for Regulators n Rising Standards: The impact on Access to Professions for the Foreign- Trained n Developing Professionally Relevant and Fair Language Testing n Perspectives from the Outside

4. Educational Sessions n Competency-based Assessment n Scanning the Horizon: Access Issues for Regulators n Rising Standards: The impact on Access to Professions for the Foreign- Trained n Developing Professionally Relevant and Fair Language Testing n Perspectives from the Outside

5. Steering Committee n Grant opportunity from Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities n Terms of Reference n Project Proposal: Project Coordinator hired

6. Doing the Work n Research Interviews Surveys Documents n Publications Compendium of promising practices Guiding principles How to guide Resource guide

7. Doing the Work (con’t) n Website n Regulators’ Forums

8. Champions of the Cause n Money/Resources n People/Structure

9. Challenges n Tangible (participation, jurisdictional boundaries, liability, measurable outcomes) n Intangible (visibility, government input, shape/face of entity)

10. Momentum in moving forward n Steering Committee is bigger than the project n Sustainability n What next…?

11. Presentation Follow-up n Please pick up a handout from this presentation n Presentation materials will be posted on CLEAR’s website n Contact: Edwina McGroddy at emcgroddy@icao.on.ca or www.regulators4access.com (after October 17)