Professional Development

PAAE Summer Conference

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The Summer Conference of the Pennsylvania Association of Agricultural Educators is held annually to conduct the business of the association and to provide opportunities for professional development, strategic planning, and building partnerships. For more information, click here.

CASE

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CASE connects education and industry through purposeful curricula and transformative professional development. CASE impacts student career readiness by empowering teachers with improved instructional practices and relevant curricula sustained by professional development. For a schedule of institutes, click here.

National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Program

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The National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy (NATAA) has over 15 years of successfully cultivating agriscience and inquiry-based learning in agricultural education. The Academy serves to train agriculture teachers on how to enhance the science that is already present in agriculture, as well as develop students as problem solvers and thinkers through the inquiry-based teaching method. For more information, click here.

Center for Science in the Schools

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CSATS is a leader in transforming precollege STEM education, contributing to the university’s land-grant mission in a 21st-century context by leveraging the research being done at Penn State. CSATS works with Penn State researchers and their colleagues to develop, implement, assess, and disseminate STEM outreach programs. For a listing of summer workshops, click here.

Briggs and Stratton Instructor Field School

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The Center for Professional Personnel Development is SUPER EXCITED to announce that registration for our 2024 Briggs & Stratton Instructor Field School, provided by Power Distributors, June 25-27, 2024 at State College Area Senior High School is NOW OPEN! No need to travel out of state for this exclusive training opportunity. Additionally, because of our unique capacity here at the Center for Professional Personnel Development, we are able to offer this training for an incredibly low price. See flyer attached and linked below for full details. Registration is ONLY open for Pennsylvania school-based agriculture teachers from now until March 15, 2024. After March 15 it will be opened up nationally. We are only able to take 20 participants. If you are in need of a THOROUGH training in small gasoline engines taught by industry professionals, do not delay in completing your registration. See additional information here

Questions? Please contact Jon Seaman at [email protected]

Global Teach Ag Network Community

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The Global Teach Ag Network hosts an online community of educators. This community is free to join and includes the following:

Open feed to ask questions and network with over 1,200 educators in 48 countries
Asychronous courses on global topics and programs (such as the Four Pillars of Food Security and Journey 2050)
Complementary programs including online global ag modules for classroom use, professional book club, resources on connecting the arts to global agriculture
Livestream series with speakers connecting to global topics
And more!

Join the community here - https://global-teach-ag-network.mn.co/
Visit the Global Teach Ag Network website here - https://globalteachagnetwork.psu.edu/