National Quality Program Standards

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National Quality Program Standards

• NASAE
• 2008

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The Council LPS

• LPS - 10 states
• State Staff - 5 schools
• LPS orientation meeting in each state
• Organized a national Pilot Conference for all
  states

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  States participating

• Connecticut
• Iowa
• Montana
• Louisiana
• Minnesota
• New Jersey
• Arkansas
• Wyoming
• Colorado
• Arizona.

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Dissemination Conference Purposes

• Prepare teachers to manage local program
  improvement efforts
• selected 1-2 areas to work on
• Plan a similar conference in their state for all
  secondary Ag Education.

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Program Improvement - Measurement

• End of year
• each school take the on-line tool again
• measure improvement. (teacher, advisory comm.,
  adm)

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Plan for 2009

• Identify 10 more states
• Replicate the Dissemination Process again
• Improvements based on evaluations feedback from
  the Pilot States

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10 Commandments for Implementing NQPS in Your
State

• Call it an Improvement Tool
• Do not use it as a hammer
• Use as a tool to develop partnerships with
  administrators
• Use as a tool to develop partnerships with the
  community
• Use it to show teachers the 7 keys of local
  program success
• Use it to provide teachers the opportunity to
  balance their program
• Use it to focus the teachers efforts in the
  seven keys
• Use it to create awareness of the total
  agricultural education program
• Use it to promote agricultural education in the
  school
• Use it as a carrot for convincing decision makers
  improvements are needed