Time to share resources.....

We can all use a healthy dose of "Working Smarter and not Harder", which leads me to today's blog topic: "Sharing Resources". Anytime we can share the resource we have developed to support our 4-H program we make the life of a fellow Extension agents easier, and they in turn, will make our life easier.

What I would like to propose today is the sharing of promotional and marketing material you have developed/used in your county. I will facilitate the sharing of these resources around the district. What I need you to do is send me your stuff.....preferably in electronic format. Send me anything you are currently using to market your 4-H program. I will get these items posted in a way that we can all share and benefit from each others work.

(todays blog topic provided courtesy of Dusty Tittle, and Amy Ressler of Burleson county)

Until next time,
Take Care,
Kevin

Leader College Open For Registration

District 9 4-H Leader College is one of the best opportunities you have to let someone else teach your leaders things you need them to know. Work smarter instead of harder. Recruit volunteers to work in the project areas in which you lack expertise. Or recruit volunteers to work in routine areas that they are qualified to support, and free your time to address the things your program needs, as opposed to what is currently urgent.

Leader College Registration is available on 4-H Connect and an Itinerary can be found on the D9 Web Page. The cost for leaders, agents, and youth is $15. The deadline for registering is August 1.

Topics to be offered include:

• Consumer Decision Making
• Meat I.D. and Evaluation
• Photography
• Parliamentary Procedure
• Horses / Mentor Program
• 4-H Food Challenge
• Motivating Volunteers
• Health Rocks
• Sheep
• Expanding the 4-H Program
• Technology applications
• Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Program
• and Youth Directed Expansion Effort

You should also be looking at this opportunity as potential Professional Development for yourself.

Full Promotional Brochure Coming Soon.....

Take Care,
Kevin

Recordbooks

Recordbook judging July 9, at three locations across the district...... You know the drill, we've all done it before. But before you succumb to the doldrums of thinking about 4 to 5 hours of judging recordbooks, you should stop and consider what you will really be doing tomorrow. you will be providing feedback to a young person on the quality of their 4-H experience. An experience that is very important and special to them. And they have taken the time to chronicle that experience in the convoluted process we call the 4-H Recordbook. It's not just a book we are evaluating, but the experience, activities, and goals of a young person.

In our jobs we touch people every day. Hopefully when you consider tomorrow's task you can think of it as an opportunity to touch a young person in a positive way.

Good Luck and enjoy the process,
Kevin