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The Ag Ed Model for NY
Whats Unique to NY
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Whats Unique About NY

• All Agricultural Education Programming coming out
  of one office housed at our Land Grant University
  Cornell University
• NY Ag in the Classroom
• NY FFA
• NY Ag Teacher Services

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Whats Unique About NY

• Housed within the Education Department of Cornell
  University
• We take full advantage of having Ag Ed Faculty
  there
• Funding provided by an annual grant from The NY
  Department of Ag. Markets
• Ag Markets contracts with Cornell to manage the
  grant

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Whats Unique About NY

• One web site provides links to all programs
• www.nyaged.org
• The entire team are employees of Cornell
  University
• 6 Team members
• 5 housed at Cornell
• 1 housed 4 hours away at our FFA Camp

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Our NY Team (official)

• Bob Haight Director
• Eric Larsen Teacher Services State FFA
  Advisor
• Shari Lighthall Teacher Services (housed at
  camp)
• Juleah Tolosky FFA Executive Secretary
• Heather Davis Coordinator NYAITC
• Vikki Hammond Administrative Assistant

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Our NY Team (official plus)

• NY Department of Ag Markets
• NY Career Pathways
• Farm Bureau
• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• NY Association of Agricultural Educators
• NY FFA Leadership Training Foundation
• NY FFA Governing Board

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Our Team Functions as a Team

• All team members get involved in all projects
• Titles designate who is the point person on
  projects but all others will be active
• The strength of our team is our diversity
• Job descriptions will change based on individual
  strengths

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Team Examples

• FFA Advisors and Chapters as County Coordinators
  for AITC Ag Literacy Week
• Juleah teaming with Heather
  to write our book for Ag
  Literacy Week

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Team Examples

• Eric coordinating State CDEs
• Heather teaming up with camp to provide training
  on AITC lessons for teacher education students
• Shari providing the inspiration for AITC new
  initiatives

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How Did We Get Here?

• State Education Department used to house State
  FFA and Professional Development.
• Phase out by SED caused Ag Teachers to rise to
  the occasion
• Ag Teachers proposed the beginning of AOE

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Our Future

• Continue to work with all Stakeholders of Ag
  Education to head toward common goals.
• Continue to listen to determine our direction
• Fireside chats
• Opportunities for feed back from teachers during
  student events
• State Officers representing students
• AITC Advisory Committee

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