FAAE works diligently in

Tallahassee and Washington on

behalf of Agriculture

Education Teachers.

FAAE Advocacy efforts

include: Delegates attend Farm

Bureau Reception

Ag on the Hill

Lobby legislative concerns

Transportation concerns

Attend ACTE National

Policy Seminar

NAAE/ACTE

Advocacy efforts include:

Lobby congress for

favorable legislation Gain support for

reauthorization of Perkins

Advocacy Reports

Annual Perkins updates

FAAE is moving ahead for you…

don’t get left behind!

Becoming Involved in Your Professional Organization

NAAE Award Winners

The Florida Associa-

tion of Agricultural Educators (FAAE) is

proud to announce

our 2014 NAAE

application winners!!

Thank you for your hard work and

dedication to our

profession. All

winners’ applications

were selected through

the NAAE Region V application selection

process.

Outstanding Teacher

Jason Steward, Tomlin

Middle School*

Outstanding Young

Member

Carrie Owen, DeLand

Middle School

Outstanding Secondary/

Middle School Program

Taylor Middle High School,

Pierson

Teacher Turn the Key

Tiffany Parish, Brandon

High School* and

Amy Imler, Lake Butler High

School*

Ideas Unlimited

Samantha Dodge, East

River High School

Outstanding Cooperative

Institute of Technical Arts*

Outstanding Service

Citation

Dr. Ed Osborne, University

of Florida*

Lifetime Achievement

Ray Clark

Outstanding Student

Victoria Harris

*Applications are regional award

winners and will be recognized

at NAAE National Conference.

Summer 2014 Issue

FAAE Newsletter

FAAE Board

President

Samantha Dodge

President-Elect

Lane Woodward

Past President Kyle Hearn

Secretary

Matthew

Dettloff

Treasurer

Erin Johnson

Reporter

Carrie Owen

FACTE Rep

Pam Walden

New Teacher Rep

Tiffany Parish

Area 1 Rep

Michele Curts

Area 2 Rep Natalie Couey

Area 3 Rep

Keith Kirby

Area 4 Rep Kim Acton

Area 5 Rep

Karly

Cohenour

Area 6 Rep

Vincent

Newman

New to the Area!!!

Vernon High Mr. Kevin Shull

Graceville Middle/ High Mrs. Bethany McPher-

son

Blountstown High Mr. Joshua McPherson

If you have any exciting

news or accomplish-ments of the FAAE

members in our area, please send me an email

so I can showcase the awesome teachers of

Area !!!!!!

~Michele Curts

The second event is the Volusia County Ag. Programs putting on their annual Livestock Judging contest. This event will take place Saturday November 8th. Contact Brent Brandner (bcbrandn@volusia.k12.fl.us) for more information.

Area 3 is happy to announce that we have two great events scheduled in the next 2 months. First, we have the Marion County Ag. Programs putting on their annual SLAM Leadership conference. The date on this is not set yet but should be sometime in late October.

Additionally Area 3 has seven new Ag. Teachers placed and about five other position changes from one school to Another. Overall we are very excited with the new additions and look forward to a great competitive year in Area 3.

Area 1 News

Area 3 News

Area 2 News

on FFA trips, but relating my class (Agriscience) to their academic course and the real world is awesome too! Something cool about my FFA Chapter: 2014-15 is the 3rd year BMS has had a full time Agriscience teacher

because we have built our numbers up. Best advice received: “Pick your battles in the classroom with students and with your administration. The little things are not worth worrying about.”

Teacher Spotlight!!!! Allison Hartley Years Teaching: 1 year at Lake Asbury Jr. High and 5 years at Bradford Middle Favorite Thing About Teaching Ag: I really enjoy my time out of class with my students

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Keith Kirby Vanguard High School Marion County

Natalie Couey Williston Middle Levy County

Michele Curts Chipley High School Washington County

Orange County is proud to have 2 Na-tional FFA Finalists: Chelsea Brooks from East River High School and Anastasia Sturgis from Colonial High School. Orange Coun-ty also has 2 National FFA Chapter Award recipients: Apopka High School (3 stars) and Ocoee Middle

School (2 stars) Congratulations to Randy Ius from Wekiva High School. He was awarded a National FFA Living to Serve Grant. His FFA Chapter will be recycling household batteries!

Teacher Spotlight: Ms. Keitha Hall is a veteran teacher at Kathleen High School. Her students are always successful in their Agriculture and FFA activities. After many years of teaching, Keitha is still passionate about her profession. She is a role model in the Agriculture community.

Martin, Highlands, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, Lee, Hendry and Collier coun-ties to go over issues concerning upcoming events.

We are arranging to meet with schools within Area 6, from:

We will be working to determine if a rotating location monthly would be in the best interest of the group.

Area 4 News

Area 6 News

Area 5 News

Jason and Tiffany will be representing Florida at the Na-tional Conference in Nashville in November. Leigh Cason, Plant City High School Advisor is featured in the FFA New Horizons Tagged to Teach Ag article.

~ Submitted by Pam Walden

Two of Manatee County’s new-est teachers grew up in Manatee County; Janyel Smith and Kari Schultz are both happy to be back in their home county as agriscience instructors. Janyel is the newest horticulture instructor at Lakewood Ranch High School in Bradenton, she graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Agricul-tural Education and a minor in horticultural sciences. She taught

as an agriscience teacher for one year in Hendry County and then took a position as a horticulture specialist in Manatee County. She is extremely happy to be back teaching in her home county, as it was a huge goal for her! She is looking forward to coaching Cit-rus, Vegetable Evaluation and OH Demos! Kari is also a product of Manatee County, she is the newest teacher at Braden River High School in Bradenton, and she graduated from The Ohio State University with a Degree in Animal Sciences, and is currently working on a Master ’s degree business. Kari is looking forward to coaching the CDE teams of Veterinary Assisting and Horse Judging.

Hillsborough County Welcomes New Teachers!

Kelly Rodgers-Tomlin MS Jessica Raegen-Martinez MS

Wendy Barr-Greco MS Jordan Newsome-Buchannan MS Elizabeth Yarbrough-Liberty MS

Fella Stewart-McLane MS Melissa Francavilla-Brandon HS

Kelcie Williams-King HS Cassie Miles & Tiffany Parish-

Plant City HS Stefanie Parry-Steinbrenner HS

Exciting News!!! Jason Steward from Tomlin MS was named as Region V NAAE

Outstanding Agriculture

Education Teacher Award

Tiffany Parish from Brandon HS (now Plant City HS) was named as one of Region V's Teacher Turn the Key Award Winners

Page 3 Summer 2014 Issue

Kim Acton University High Orange County

Vincent Newman

Karly Cohenour Braden River High Manatee County

FAAE Newsletter

Farrah Johnson, agriscience teacher at Deltona High School, successfully completed the 12th annual DuPont AgriScience Teachers Ambassador Academy (NATAA) at the company’s Chesapeake Farms in Chestertown, Maryland, and became an Ag Ambassador, along with 250 other teachers from around the country.

The NATAA “Ag Academy” is a professional development institute sponsored by DuPont and a special project of the National FFA Foundation and the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE). This year, 49 agriscience teachers were selected to engage in inquiry-based activities, where they explore state-of-the-art

teaching concepts, with a majority of their training time in hands-on activities on Chesapeake Farms 3,300-acre working farm. For more information on the Ag Ambassador program, visit http://www.naae.org/profdevelopment/nataa.cfm.

Deltona Teacher Becomes DuPont “Ag Ambassador’

Farrah Johnson Deltona High School Volusia County

The mission of FFA is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success. By supporting our program with the purchase of a specialty license plate, you are helping to ensure that we are able to meet this mission for our students. Your purchase of an Agriculture Education/FFA specialty license plate provides support for all avenues that help to develop opportunities for nearly 30,000 agriscience students.

Helps to support opportunities in student leadership through career development events and award programs.

Contributes to leadership and staff development for over 400 agriscience teachers who are in our classrooms today.

Supports recruitment of agriscience education teachers within the state through various programs of enrichment.

Helps in aiding to market Florida FFA to future and current members.

How Do You Get One? When you renew your registration at your local tax collector’s office, simply let them know you wish to replace your current license plate with a Agricultural Education/FFA specialty license plate. If it is not time in the cycle to replace your metal license plate, you will pay a few additional dollars to switch to a special-ty license plate. Specialty license plates cost a set fee (annually) above the standard Florida license plate, and the fees vary based on the type of license plate. The additional fee paid goes to support the cause for which the special-ty license plate was designed.

Agricultural Education and FFA Specialty License Plate

FAAE Newsletter

Welcome back to another great year in Agriculture Education. Now that you are getting settled in and your students geared up for CDE's, SAEs through instruction. I want to say thank you for your continued support of FAAE. Our vision is to be the premier

resource for Florida agriscience teachers; therefore, our goal is to support our teach-ers any way we possibly can. In order to meet your needs we ask for you to join your professional organiza-tion, and support the Agricultural Education specialty license plate.

Please pay close atten-tion to information coming from your area representatives for upcoming and ex-citing events offered by FAAE. Sincerely, Samantha Dodge

FAAE President Report

Samantha Dodge East River High School

New Teacher News

Tiffany Parish Plant City High Polk County

Several weeks ago 37 new teachers participated in a new teacher workshop in Gainesville, FL. These new teachers attended presentations about industry certifications, advisory committees, fundraising, and many other areas as well. Thank you so much to our FAAE members you served as presenters: Tiffany Parish, Amy Mcallister, Kevin Kent, Kim Acton, Dr. Jim Dyer, Brett Brandner, Erin Johnson, Chris Wilder, and Andrea Stevenson from Florida FFA Alumni. If you are a new teacher in Florida be sure to join the NAAE Communities of Practice and joining the New Florida Teacher Group http://communities.naae.org/groups/florida-new-teachers

To Mail Registration

Forms and Payments,

please send to the

following address:

Erin Johnson

6784 NW 267th Street

Lawtey, FL 32058

Email Samantha

Dodge, FAAE President

if you have any

questions:

Samantha.dodge@ocp

Check Out Our Website & Facebook Page

FAAE

Mission

Statement FAAE is an

organization of

professionals dedicated to providing visionary leadership, advocacy,

and service for

Agriscience Educators.

www.flaged.org

Upcoming Professional Development

September & October—PD opportunities at Area COLT Conferences (See agendas) November—National Association of Agriculture Educators (NAAE) Nov. 18th—22nd Nashville, TN January—Mid-Winter Conference (January 23rd thru 25th) Where: Florida FFA Leadership Training Center Cost: $100 for FAAE Members (includes lodging and meals) Agenda and registration information to be released in October.

How to Join

Option 1: Logon to our website, www.flaged.com, and click the “Join Now” link on the homepage.

You will be redirected to the membership page where you can enter your information and credit card payment. You can also print off your registration and mail

it in.

Option 2: Print registration information and mail with your check payment to:

6784 NW 267th St Lawtey, FL 32058

Option 3:

Pay at leadership conference, like COLT, to an FAAE officer.

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XLR8 Award

Retaining quality experienced teachers is important to the future of agricultural education. In 2013, NAAE developed XLR8 — the eXcellence in Leadership for

Retention professional development program — to meet the needs of mid-career agriculture teachers.

The XLR8 program includes participation in an intensive professional development experience (multiple sessions) during the NAAE convention, recurring virtual learning

experiences, and online collaboration using the NAAE professional learning community, Communities of Practice, as well as other social media tools.

The submission deadline is September 26, 2014. All active NAAE members who are currently in their 7th to 15th year of teaching are

eligible to apply. http://www.naae.org/profdevelopment/xlr8.cfm