La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LXV-509

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LXV-509 - Need and Context for Restructuring AgEd/FFA

A. The world of agriculture and AgEd/FFA continues to grow more complex. We develop, disseminate and interpret more information in less time than ever before. Our curriculum development, teacher education, state supervision/coordination of AgEd/FFA activities, and local delivery systems must stretch to keep the pace. AgEd/FFA educators must keep pace as scientists add more information to the knowledge base, budgets grow tighter, and the use of technology increases the speed of business.

B. These rapid changes require new ways of thinking, working and interacting. Just as newer, more powerful software applications can overwhelm today's computer systems, the ever-accelerating rate of change can overwhelm our system of AgEd/FFA. From curriculum development and dissemination to teacher preparation and state supervision/coordination of AgEd/FFA activities, our people are overloaded. It is time to take a fresh look at these systems to meet current and future needs more effectively.

C. Tremendous change is occurring in our nation's schools and particularly in Louisiana. Alternative scheduling is one initiative that is dramatically affecting AgEd/FFA. AgEd/FFA programs need the flexibility to function within 4x4 blocks and other forms of alternative scheduling. The use of this Framework in developing local curricula provides this flexibility.

D. The Frameworks project was launched in an effort to address these fundamental issues. This project is a visioning and planning initiative to develop a framework for 21st century education/FFA programs. This project, in collaboration with AgEd/FFA across the nation, is the first step in a multi-year effort to reinvent AgEd/FFA in the United States.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LXV-509

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 29:2643 (December 2003).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S.17:6(A)(10) and R.S. 17:10.