October 2019
In This Issue
Sacramento Scene:
- The End of the Legislative Session
California Department of Education Update:
- Mission Statement, Vision Statement and Goals for Agricultural Education
News & Views:
- Maintenance or Incentive
- The Elevator Talk in Anaheim, California
- A Quest for Understanding: Striving for Success, Work-Life Balance, and Belonging as an Agriculture Teacher
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The End of the Legislative Session
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y: Matt Patton, CATA Executive Director
Governor Newsom had an almost 75% Democratic Legislature and billions of surplus funds in the budget for his first year in office. With that, he worked on expanding public preschool, adding an additional year of free community college to full time students, as well as adding to the rainy day fund.
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Mission Statement, Vision Statement and Goals for Agricultural Education
By: Charles Parker, California Department of Education State FFA Advisor
In June at the CATA Summer Conference, I was ecstatic as I announced a full staff to those in attendance. I knew at that time, teachers would, and should, have higher expectations. With Jackie, Shay and Dane joining Jill, Greg, Hugh and me, we began to think about the future. What would agricultural education look like in twenty years?
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Maintenance or Incentive
By: Hugh Mooney,
California Department of Education, Superior Region Supervisor
I began my first teaching job on July 1, 1984. I had a twenty percent summer contract (that is what we called extended contracts then). My annual salary was $25,012. I submitted an Agriculture Incentive Grant Contract in the amount of $8,300 which the district fully matched. At Big Valley High School, we had a seven-period day. The cost to the district to provide me with a Project Period was $3,475. The district was given the incentive of $2,000 in funding for providing me that period of release time. The same was true about the summer contract. In 1984, the Ag Incentive Grant provided an incentive to districts to meet program standards that the AIG was based on.
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The Elevator Talk in Anaheim, California
By:
Travis Wyrick, Visalia VTEC
Los Angeles traffic, crowds, everything is expensive. State Conference has been held in Anaheim, again. An hour or more away from anything we would call production agriculture. Absent orchards, fields, steers, crops, poultry, and more. I would bet many agriculture teachers feel the desire to get in and get out of the city as quickly as possible. Yet I want to come back.
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A Quest for Understanding: Striving for Success, Work-Life Balance, and Belonging as an Agriculture Teacher
By:
Dr. Haley Traini, Oregon State University
As a high school agriculture teacher, I wanted to be the best at everything. The best teacher, coach, SAE supervisor, you name it. And I believe I accomplished this. After five years in the classroom, I coached state winning teams and public speakers, developed new courses, won grants and built successful programs in my chapter. It was both rewarding and fun work. I had wonderful colleagues, laughed every day and went home feeling like I made a difference in the lives of my students.
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