Looking for a new way to organize your FFA officer elections? Don’t want it to be a popularity contest but still want the general membership to have a say in the officer elections?

Look no further! This blog explains my 5-step process for FFA officer elections that makes sure the best candidates are on the officer team, while not being biased and allowing FFA members to still determine FFA officers.

FFA Week can be a great way for your FFA chapter and officers to involve your entire community with FFA and the agriculture industry.

Read this week’s blog to gain FFA Week ideas and learn some of the ways my FFA officers engaged students k-12 into this celebration!

Did you know there is a Random Acts of Kindness Week the week of February 17th? Our FFA officers often incorporated national days/weeks into their POA.

Read this week’s blog to learn how we incorporated FOUR easy to implement activities into Kindness is Contagious during National Random Acts of Kindness Week.

Looking for ideas to start a new year after Christmas Break? Wanting to motivate your students to finish the school year strong?

This week’s blog, Ringing in the New Year, provides four different techniques I used in the classroom to focus my students on what they would like to achieve in the following year.

No matter what kind of year you experienced as a FFA advisor and agriculture teacher, it is worth CELEBRATING!

Learn ways to celebrate you and your students’ accomplishments within your program in this week’s blog post.

Looking for a way for students to learn real-world skills not taught in any other class? Wanting to prepare students for life after graduation?

Read this week’s blog to learn how my FFA chapter conducted Adulting 101 to teach students skills, such as vehicle maintenance, applying for a loan, or canning food, just to name a few.

Frustrated with the results from your last recruitment event? Trying to focus your recruitment efforts to yield more students and higher achieving students?

Read this week’s blog to learn the three techniques I used to approach recruitment and how I was able to increase my chapter size by 50+ students in 5 years resulting in 75% of the high school in agriculture classes and FFA.

Looking for a new way to organize CDE teams? Spending countless hours creating resources and practice materials?

Read this week’s blog to learn FIVE techniques I used to maximize my impact on students in CDEs, while reducing my workload.

Looking for a FFA activity to help prepare the students at your school for upcoming bad weather? The Buckle Up For Winter activity provided students with winter safety kits and promoted the importance of using their seat belt at the start of winter. Read this week’s blog to learn how it was implemented!

Did you know American Education Week is in the middle of November? Does your school or FFA chapter do anything to celebrate teachers and school staff? Read this week’s blog to learn about some of the ways my FFA chapter showed appreciation to those in education and grab copies of all of my templates so you can easily implement this activity into your POA!

Feeling like you’re spending all of your free time grading assignments? Want to reduce grading, while not reducing authentic feedback?

Read this week’s blog to find my tips and techniques I used in the classroom to reduce grading and refocus my time to what matters most - the students!

Do your students struggle envisioning what life is like after high school? Need a unique FFA meeting activity?

The Chips and Tips FFA Alumni Event utilized alumni FFA members to provide tips and insight into careers, college, and life after graduation to current FFA members. Read about it in this week’s blog and download a copy of the panelist questions.

Do you struggle to sit during teacher in-services? Me too! So if we, as teachers, despise sitting, how can we expect our students to do the same.

Read this week’s blog to learn how The Owl’s Nest has incorporated meaningful movement into the Introduction to AFNR course to maximize student engagement and retention of course content.

If I asked your students if they would willingly sleep in a cardboard box in October in Ohio without electronics, food or other luxuries, would they?

Read this week’s blog to learn how 60-70% of my students participated in Cardboard City each year to raise awareness for homelessness. Learn about ways I modified this event over six years in this blog post.

Looking for a new activity to implement into your chapter’s POA? Read all about how my officers used the Leadership Trail to facilitate team building and leadership development among FFA members in this week’s blog.

Letters of recommendations for students was a task included on my to-do list multiple times each year. And although writing these letters are time consuming, there are ways to MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS SIMPLE!

Read this week’s blog to learn my steps to streamline this process and grab a copy of my brag sheet, as well as example letters of recommendation.

Do you like games? Guess what, so do your students! The Owl’s Nest incorporates several interactive games to drive content delivery. Learn about how I used gamified activities to increase student interest, retention and comprehension in the classroom in this week’s blog.

Struggling to get your upperclassmen officer team to develop meaningful relationships with underclassmen? Need help motivating students to attend events and FFA activities?

Read this week’s blog to see how I used a FFA Draft and Point System in my classroom and FFA chapter to help increase inclusion and participation among members.

Looking for a ready-made lesson series to implement in your chapter’s POA as an Ag in the Classroom event? Look no further!

The From Ear to Everything Lesson Series published by the TN Corn Grower’s Association is a 6-lesson series on the lifecycle and uses of corn, including an interactive Corn League review game and 7 supplementary videos. Read this week’s blog to download these resources.

Feeling like the school you are in doesn’t see the worth of FFA? Frustrated there is not more buy-in from students, staff and community members for this unique student organization?

Read this week’s blog on how I transformed the program I taught in from one who rarely provided students opportunities to one where multiple students per year made it to the national stage.