Connecting the Dots -Outside the Box-

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Connecting the Dots -Outside the Box-

• FCS Program Day
• April 17, 2009
• Patsy A. Ezell, Ph.D.

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IceBreaker
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Connecting the Dots for Our Future

• Dr. Nick Place
• Associate Dean Associate Director
• Maryland Cooperative Extension

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Taking Stock of Our DOTS

• Our Programs
• Are we on target?
• Are we focused on important issues?
• Are we relevant to 2009?
• Are we viewed as experts?
• Have we asked our clientele what they need?

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Taking Stock of our Dots

• Move into Groups Based on Issues in Articles
• Group Facilitators will guide questions
• List all Programs on Individual sticky sheets
• 4. Post on Impact Team sheet that program is most
  closely connected with from your teams
  perspective.

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Taking Stock of Our Dots

• Our Public Value Why is it important?
• Teresa McCoy, Assistant Director, Program
  Evaluation

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Outcome Thinking
Extension Strengthens Partnerships with Local
and State Governments
Community Researchers Seek Out Extension to Put
new Ideas Into Practice
Increased Funding From Traditional Sources
Successfully Documenting Extensions Public Value
New Clientele
Identified as the Organization Of Choice for
LifeLong Learning
Increased Funding From Non-Traditional Sources
Need for Additional Professionals
Increased Demand For Extensions Services
Increased demand for Services in new venues
Non-Traditional Partnerships
Public Gains Awareness of Extension Mission
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What IS A Program?

• A program is a planned series of interrelated
  educational strategies.
• An Extension program is a planned educational
  response to an identified need with clear
  objectives and expected outcomes.

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What IS a Program?

• A Comprehensive Educational Program
• Series of interrelated, planned learning
  opportunities with clear objectives and expected
  outcomes.
• Engages participants over time.
• Results in behavior or practice change, and
  ultimately social, economic or environmental
  improvements.

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Program ComponentsTraditional

• Series of educational sessions or workshops
• On-line learning modules
• Educational exhibits
• Health Fair
• One Shot program
• Brochures and Publications
• Newsletters
• Mass Media

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Program ComponentsNot-So-Traditional!

• Webinars
• PodCasts
• YouTube
• Social Networking Sites
• Smartphone Learning
• 2nd Life Simulations
• Blogs

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Programs

• New/Emerging Programs
• First year efforts
• Pilot efforts
• Developed or identified to address a specific
  need
• Developed to target a specific audience

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Programs

• Promising Programs
• 2nd or 3rd Generation emerging program
• Addresses important issue identified through
  needs assessment or clientele
• Implementation has resulted in measurable
  behavior/practice change in target audience
• Evaluation studies show promise for assessing
  social, economic or environmental changes over a
  period of time.

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Programs

• Signature Programs of Excellence
• Designed to solve individual, group, and/or
  community issues identified by clientele 
• Grounded in research-based knowledge
• Includes systematic documentation of curriculum
  development and program evaluation
• Enhances public good through environmental,
  social, and economic impacts that are attainable
  and measurable. 
• Integrated across multiple disciplines,
  universities, and/or regions and replicable at
  state or national levels.

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Programs

• Evidence-Based Programs
• Evaluation research shows that the program
  produces the expected positive results
• Results can be attributed to the program itself,
  rather than to other extraneous factors or
  events

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Programs

• Evidence-Based Programs (continued)
• The evaluation is peer-reviewed by experts in the
  field and
• The program is endorsed by a federal agency or
  respected research organization and included in
  their list of effective programs

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Re-Framing Our Dots

• Programs and Impact Teams

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Impact Team
DRAFT
Stakeholder Input
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Impact TeamsAn Integrated Approach
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Integrative Thinking Model
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Words of Wisdom

• The significant problems we
• face today cannot be solved at
• the same level of thinking we
• were at when we created them.
• --Albert Einstein

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A E B C D
The Problem
Where does the F go?
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A E F B C D
The Problem
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A E B C
D F
The Problem
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Integrative Thinking

• Incorporates Creativity into Process
• Utilizes lateral thinking to explore indirect
  linkages and possibilities
• Looks first at the whole
• Looks second at the linkages between the whole
  and connections to other wholes
• Develops a framework for the creation of new
  knowledge and action

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Creativity

• Creativity is the process of challenging
  accepted ideas and ways of doing things in order
  to find new solutions or concepts.
• George Boulden
• Thinking Creatively (2002)

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Why Use Creative Thinking?

• By applying creativity to any process, it is
  possible to break out of usual routines and
  patterns of doing things.
• Creative thinking brings together ideas that were
  not previously connected.
• Thinking creatively can result in innovative
  solutions to difficult problems.

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Facts About Creativity

• Creativity is the basis for integrative thinking
• Creative thinking involves changing assumptions
  and beliefs.
• Creativity does not always result in better
  results however, it does generate more options
  and ideas, and offers new insights.

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The Situation

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The Problem
Connect all nine dots using four straight lines
without lifting your pencil.

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Nuts Bolts ( Washers!)
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Connecting Campus and Field Faculty Moving
Toward Interdependence
Steven Covey, Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People
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Connecting the Dots in a New WayImpact Teams
That Work!

• Work in teams of 2 or 3.
• Select one Program off the board and take it back
  to your seat. Write name of original team on
  paper provided.
• Select one item out of creativity basket to
  provide inspiration to your efforts.
• With your team members, discuss connections
  between your program and other impact teams..

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Connecting the Dots in a New WayImpact Teams
That Work!

• Identify one new team with a clear connection to
  your program if you look at your program in a
  different way.
• List the second team on paper.
• What different issues can be addressed through
  this interdisciplinary team approach? Discuss and
  list.
• Make a connection with a third team. What
  happened? Do you have a new program with a
  different focus? Will it serve a different
  audience?

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Connecting the Dots in a New WayImpact Teams
That Work

• Record the third team on paper.
• Write your new issue statement, and name your new
  multi-disciplinary program to address the issue.
• Share your results!

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Attitude Makes Things Happen.
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Positive and Negative Thinking are BOTH
CONTAGIOUS!
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A Positive Attitude Results in

• Optimistic approach to living
• Confident in self and others
• Find solutions rather than problems
• Ability to see the brighter side of life
• Happier and healthier

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Whatever the MIND expects, it finds.
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Does Someone You Know Need an Attitude Adjustment?
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Your Attitude is Your Choice!
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Attitude

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a
  secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for
  good or bad. It is of paramount importance that
  we know how to harness and control this great
  force. Tom Blandi

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We need YOU on the TEAM!

• We ask you to make a commitment to
• A positive attitude
• Excellence
• Teamwork
• Creativity and Innovation
• Patience
• Active Engagement in the Process
• Continual Learning

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Thanks for your active participation as we move
forward together!