nomination form, the application was reviewed by a team of outside scorers through the use of a rubric and once applications were selected by the outside team for the NTAE Project, the Catalysts provided insight as to project readiness. Year 3 Catalysts include Dr. Scott Reed, Dr. Fred Schlutt, Dr. Rick Klemme, Dr. Chuck Ross, Dr. Dyremple Marsh, Dr. Jimmy Henning, Dr. Dawn Mellion, and Dr. Chuck Hibberd. In the first two quarters, catalysts assisted with the following: 1) Identifying topics for publishing. 2) Refining unique value statements and project roadmaps for project implementation
3) Providing support for expanding project networks 4) Providing input for selected Fellows for each topic 5) Working with Key Informants and projects:
Identifying key partners and building relationships with projects Conducting surveys and working with the evaluation of projects Advising the Audience Engagement Initiative and projects timing. Connecting team building and leadership building strategies with teams Seeking to embed evaluation into projects Assisting with connecting with digital engagement and professional development strategies with project teams
Selected projects work with the Extension Foundation “Key Informant Services” to enhance, expand, and accelerate the projects. Extension Foundation Key Informant Services include the following: Extension Key Informant Services Extension provides a menu of “key informant services” designed to accelerate innovative projects. The services and Extension lead staff are: ● Program Design and Educational Technology encourages projects to share their processes and products via Connect.Extension.org. Professional development is about a learning process for the projects and CES where Fellows work through digital and online methods to network and share their newly developed content and processes. If a team’s project calls for producing events such as a conference, we can also help with objective and agenda creation. If a team’s project is developing a curriculum (especially an online curriculum), we can also consult on adult learning theory and instructional design. ○ This is led by Molly Immendorf, WI. ● Digital Engagement and Publishing support for digital learning and instruction used by the project is needed and also for Extension professionals to share the process and learnings which are expected to be shared digitally from each project. Each project is
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