2025 Pre-Service Teacher Conference Recap
This weekend, Arkansas FFA hosted an inspiring conference for future Ag teachers as they prepare to step into the classroom and launch their careers!
With 21 attendees from 4 universities across the state, this event was a fantastic opportunity for networking, learning, and growing as educators.
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huge THANK YOU to our generous sponsors for their support in shaping the future of Ag Education:
Your investment in these future educators makes a lasting impact!
Workshops Included:
- Supporting Ag Educators: How Arkansas Farm Bureau Has Your Back (Matt Jackson)
- Cultivating Success: A Roundtable with Arkansas Ag Education & FFA Leadership (AR FFA State Staff)
- Landing the Job & Leading the Way: Interview Skills and Administrative Support in Ag Education (Zeb Prothro)
- Motivation Matters: Strategies for Engaging Students in Class, FFA, and SAEs (Kacey Williams & Julie Atchley)
- Congrats! You got a Job… Now What?! (Kisia Holland)
- Growing Your Future: Career Development, Professionalism, and Sustainability in Ag Education (Addison Safely)
- Real Talk with Ag Teachers: A Roundtable on Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned (Current & Retired Ag Teachers)