Agricultural Education Division
Robert Torres
Agricultural Education Division Vice President
rtorres1@arizona.edu
The ACTE® Agricultural Education Division’s membership base includes agriculture teachers (elementary, secondary, postsecondary, adult), state agricultural education leaders and university agricultural educators. Originating with the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, this Division’s mission is to prepare students for successful careers and a lifetime of choices in the global agriculture and natural resources systems.
The national goals of the Division are:
- highly motivated, well-educated teachers provide quality education for students at all levels, pre-kindergarten through adult
- all students have access to seamless, lifelong instruction in agriculture and national resources through a wide variety of delivery methods and educational settings
- all students achieve conversational literacy of agriculture and national resources
- partnerships and strategic alliances ensure a continuous presence of education in and about agriculture and natural resources
This mission and those goals are supported by 11 cooperating organizations that work in unison to further the course of agricultural education. They are:
- American Association for Agricultural Education
- National Association of Agricultural Educators
- National Council for Agricultural Education
- National Association of Supervisors of Agricultural Education
- National FFA Alumni Association
- National FFA Foundation
- National FFA Organization
- National Post-Secondary Agricultural Students Organization
- National Young Farmers Association
- United States Department of Education
- United States Department of Agriculture
Organizations affiliated with the Agricultural Education Division:
- National Association of Agricultural Educators
- National Association of Supervisors of Agricultural Education
- American Association of Agricultural Educators
The ACTE Agricultural Education Division is aligned with the following career clusters:
- Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
- Education and Training
ACTE’s Standing Committees and Task Forces
Agricultural Education Division Report to the Board
Agricultural Education Strategic Plan
Agricultural Education Operating Policies
Agricultural Education Division Committee Roster
Agricultural Education Division Leadership (National Council for Agriculture Education)
Agricultural Education Division Meeting Minutes
- Policy Committee Meeting Minutes – November 2021
- Meeting Agenda – April 2021 / Meeting Minutes – April 2021
- Meeting Agenda- December 2020 / Meeting Minutes – December 2020
- Meeting Agenda – April 2020 / Meeting Minutes – April 2020
- Meeting Agenda – December 2019 / Meeting Minutes – December 2019
- Meeting Agenda – September 2019
- Meeting Agenda – April 2019
- Meeting Minutes – November 2018
- Meeting Agenda – Meeting Minutes – September 2018
- Meeting Agenda – Meeting Minutes – March 2018
- AE Division Strategic Plan
- Meeting Agenda – September 2017 / Meeting Minutes – September 2017
- Meeting Agenda – April 2017 / Meeting Minutes – April 2017
- Meeting Agenda – September 2016 / Meeting Minutes – September 2016
- Meeting Minutes – March 2016
- Meeting Minutes – Sept 2015
- Meeting Minutes – Jan. 2012
- Meeting Minutes—Dec. 2011