8:00 PM   Dessert reception and poster viewing

9:00 PM   Adjourn

Thursday, June 3, 7:30 - 5:30 PM

7:30 AM   Registration/Continental breakfast

8:30 AM    Plenary Welcome and Orientation: Defining BEPs: What Are Good, Better, and Best Practices?

Case Study Presentation: Making Our Nonpoint Source Pollution Programs Effective

Andy Yencha, Coordinator, Multi-Agency Land and Water Education Grant Program, UW Extension and WI DNR, and Kevan Klingberg, UW Extension Discovery Farms Program

10:00 AM    Panel Discussion: Framing the Dialogue - BEP Target Audience Success Stories

11:00 AM    Breakout Session: Critical Thinking about BEPs in Water Outreach

11:45 AM    Plenary Session: Introducing and Demonstrating BEP Project Products

12:15 PM   Lunch and Poster Presentations

Review posters for target audience education practice and measures of success.

2:00 PM    Research Presentations: Audience Specific BEPs

4:30 PM    Breakout Session: Gap Analysis of Target Audience BEPs

5:30 PM   Adjourn

Friday, June 4, 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM

7:30 AM   Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM    Plenary Panels: Moving Water Education to the Forefront of Water Management Strategies

Panel Discussion: Report on Target Audience Research Gaps

Panel Discussion: Promotion and Communication: Moving Water Outreach and Education from

Backwater to Mainstream

10:l5 AM    Plenary Activity: Promoting

BEP's - Challenges for Future Action

•  Refining and Promoting Project Products

•  Building a Plan to Add Resources to the

•  Web Site

•  Recommending Future Actions

11:30 PM    Lunch and Closing Address:

Education - Is it an essential ingredient for community-based water management?

Closing Speaker: Cornelia Flora, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology and Director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University

1:00 PM   Adjourn

Water Outreach Education - Facilitating Access to Resources and Best Practices is a collaboration of USDA CSREES (Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service) and other public and private clean and safe water partners to promote best education practices for water education and to improve access to education resources and strategies.