Note: This document is a draft. Help us complete the project by reporting any missing information to Dr. Lavyne Rada.
The purpose of this directory is to provide a list of teachers, programs, and contact information within the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources CTE field. We describe our methodology for how we conducted this research here. We present and summarize these data as described by districts during STAR reporting to PELSB. During analysis, we noticed several errors made by districts (e.g., submitting the wrong teacher’s name, discrepancies in age, ethnicity, years of experience for the same teacher working at two different districts). That said, these data still have high face validity. We estimate a less than a 1% margin of error.
Methodology
MN CTE staff created this directory by conducting a secondary analysis of existing data, including PELSB Staff Automated Reporting (STAR) data, and PELSB File Folder licensure data. We reviewed teachers that districts reported in their 2023-2024 STAR data as teaching within a “CTE assignment” (i.e., column 4, “Assignment Description” on PELSB’s Licensure Assignment Table), as well as assignments that teachers with CTE licenses can teach within, but are not considered a CTE assignment by PELSB (e.g., 200300 – Horticulture/Animal or Crop Production). Generally, to align with MDE Program Approval and Perkins reporting, districts should not be using these non-CTE assignments, but we realized many CTE teachers with appropriate licenses were missing if we did not include these data. To validate that these teachers had appropriate CTE licenses to teach within these assignments, we then cross-checked each teacher’s license within these assignments using File Folder data. Note: This directory does not represent a list of teachers or programs with approval from MDE for CTE Revenue and Perkins funding (those data are here).
We will conduct a similar analysis for 2024-2025 after PELSB publishes STAR data (early 2025).