4H Center for Youth Development Research and Innovation

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4-H Center for Youth Development
Research and Innovation

• Mitzi Downing, Ed.D.

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• Mission To advance the field of youth
  development through innovation in research,
  teaching, learning, extension, and engagement.
• Vision The 4-H Center is dedicated to transform
  nonformal education to meet the demands of the
  21st century global knowledge society.

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Need
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Strategy
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Challenges Forward
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Support
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Text
20th Century Learning
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Why 21st Century Skills?
20th Century
21st Century
1 2 Jobs
10 15 Jobs
Number of Jobs
Cross-Cutting Skills
Mastery of One Field
Job Requirement
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Subject Matter Mastery
Teaching Model
Subject Matter Mastery
Integration of 21st Century Skills into Subject
Matter Mastery
Assessment Model
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• To achieve the vision of a quality education, NC
  needs a center focusing on our states youth
  development issues.
• 4-H recognizes that a young person is more than
  their score on an end of grade test. There is no
  Dow Jones in education. A test is simply a
  snapshot of what is really a motion picture. 4-H
  understands the mosaic of young peoples lives and
  is equipped to support our families, schools and
  communities in creating a system where truly no
  child is left behind.

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• The 4-H Center will
• 1. Facilitate collaborations for research and
  evaluation that increases understanding of youth
  development in the contexts of youth, family and
  community.
• 2. Extend knowledge to NC Cooperative Extension
  and other youth professionals in the science of
  youth development, applied research, programming,
  and evaluation.
• 3. Provide communications to a broad range of
  stakeholders about the innovation, activities of
  the Center.
• 4. Provide field and campus-based support that
  facilitates ongoing research, evaluation,
  education, and training of NC Cooperative
  Extension professionals.

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Research Evaluation
Your Text here
Extending Knowledge
Support
Communications
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Evaluation
Basic Applied Research
Research Evaluation Projects will be conducted
in collaboration with Extension professionals, NC
State campus-based Specialists and community
partners.
The goal of all research and evaluation
activities of the Center is the extension of
results of these activities to Extension
professionals, academic practice and lay
audiences.
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STEM
Employability Upward Mobility
Research Agenda
Diversity
Health Wellness
Title
Youth Engagement
Volunteerism /Civic Responsibility
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Extending Knowledge Communication
Support
Reports
Abstracts of Research
Monographs
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B2L Notes
R.U.S.H.
Monograph (ENGAGE)
Issue Brief

A companion to ENGAGE. These briefs will present
findings of YD research studies and/or program
evaluation conducted by YD practitioners, NCCES
field faculty, state staff and NCSU faculty.
Brown Bag Lunch Notes Quick Guide to funding
opportunities, research findings, resources for
curriculum and notes for training and conferences.
Will be a series of in-depth, research-based
papers on relevant youth development issues.
Research You Should Have Offers a summary of
recent research articles from a variety of
professional publications.
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Awareness
Marketing Advocacy
Programs Event Sponsor
Support
Partnership Collaboration
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Next Steps
Infrastructure Building
Univ. System Green light
Advisory Teams
Funding
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Thank you !

• Mitzi Downing, Ed.D.