July 2020
In This Issue
Sacramento Scene:
California Department of Education Update:
News & Views:
- Nationwide Honors 2019-2020 Golden Owl Award Winners
- Our Expectations
- Year Two - Distance Learning, Say What?
- EdSource: Seeking guidance for reopening schools?
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Sacramento Scene: Perspective and Attitude
By: Matt Patton, CATA Executive Director
Two months ago the outlook for California Agricultural Education looked desolate. Funding for all Career Technical Education (CTE) specialty programs faced a 50% cut. These cuts specifically targeted the Agricultural Incentive Grant (AIG), Career Technical Education Incentive Grant (CTEIG) and the K-12 Strong Work Force (K-12 SWF) grants. Universally, K-14 schools and universities all faced 10% reductions in general operating funds.
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California Department of Education Update, July 2020
By: Charles Parker, California Department of Education, State FFA Advisor
Today, I truly believe that CHANGE is now the normal. Each time we move forward we find a new set of doors to select. Do we take the door with the ocean view? The door with Yosemite? The door with a classroom? The door with the farm? No matter which door we take, it is most certainly going to be a surprise when we pull it open.
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Nationwide Honors 2019-2020 Golden Owl Award Winners
Educators devote limitless time, and often their own resources, to helping students pursue their passions. After recognizing the exceptional efforts of 31 agriculture teachers as finalists in the 2019-2020 Golden Owl Award, Nationwide announced grand prize winners in California, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania, who’ve earned the title of their state’s Ag Educator of the Year as well as $3,000 in funding to bring new opportunities to their programs and students.
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Our Expectations
By: Michael Jaquez, Teacher, Mira Monte High School
As agricultural educators, we are tasked with creating engaging learning environments, providing mentorship and encouragement for our students, offering opportunity for premier leadership, and supporting students in their future endeavors so that they can achieve success. We must provide quality education to all of our students. These expectations of agriculture teachers are carried out in controlled settings like the classroom, in the shop, or at the school farm. We provide our students with the time and resources that are required to complete the learning task being asked of them.
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Year Two – Distance Learning, Say What?
By Sierra Hawkesworth, Agricultural Educator, Foothill High School
As a young agricultural educator, we find ourselves in times of trials and tribulations on almost a daily basis. We finish final student teaching and are desperately seeking the next steps in our career path. We find ourselves in job interviews, accepting job offers, and signing contracts. The excitement sets in with having our very first classroom. Areas are designated as the turn in area, supply area, bulletin boards, storage, lab stations, and more. Days turn into weeks, weeks into quarters, and quarters into semesters. In that first year, we have created relationships, built teams, grown as educators, and watched our students grow alongside us.
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Seeking guidance for reopening schools?
Courtesy of EdSource
Across California, school districts, county offices of education and the state are planning how to reopen schools in the fall to ensure the safety and wellbeing of students and staff. Scroll down to view guidance documents issued by the California Dept. of Education, county offices of education and other agencies and organizations. We will continue to update this page as more information becomes available.
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