Monday, July 6, 2009

Wasted Donuts & Ag Teacher Math


A comment at the 2009 Ag Ed Conference spurred the following thoughts.
Comment: "Our school has probably wasted lots of donuts at meetings which did not have a clear purpose."


Using my ag teacher math skills, I did some figurin'.


370 schools times 6 meetings per year times $5 for donuts at each meeting = $11,100 potentially wasted dollars.

Some (not all) of us need to utilize our advisory committees much better...BY GIVING THEM A PURPOSE.

Programs of Study and 3rd Party Assessment are not new concepts. (For eons, DHIA has served as a 3rd Party for dairy producers. If a dairy cow if polite and friendly but is a low producer, she probably gets culled.)

CTE needs to CULL the practice of having advisory committee meetings "merely to meet the law". Utilize Programs of Study and 3rd Party Assessment to give Advisory Committee members a PURPOSE and USE thier input. (Remember: Advisory committee members are NOT the educational experts, they are the industry experts.)

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