Raise your hand if this sounds like your students? “We forgot to order donuts for tomorrow’s meeting…who was in charge of that?” “Hey Mr./Mrs _____ what do I need to do next to get ready for the banquet? “I forgot the Living to Serve grant was due yesterday - why didn’t you remind me?”
An officer team can make or break the success a chapter finds within its POA and the National Chapter Award.
Through my nine years advising FFA chapters, my best teams were not necessarily the smartest or most talented students…but the ones that worked best together and had a MOTIVATION to impact their chapter!
So you have scheduled your SAE visits and are packing your truck to go to the first visit…
You have your coffee, water and snacks…which are arguably the most important if you work in a district without gas stations or restaurants like I did!
Need a new fundraiser? Getting bored of the same fruit sale? Cheese sale? Silent auction? The list goes on and on.
Agriculture teachers may be the most creative educators when it comes to fundraising…and we need to be. Between conventions, camps, judging trips and scholarships, agriculture teachers and FFA advisors need to be able to fund the immense amount of opportunities it provides for its members!
I’ve almost made it! Summer is just around the corner and I’m so ready to be DONE!
We have our sights focused on getting to summer break and we forget that our jobs are often a year-round role.
