National #TeachAg Day - September 18, 2025

Break Out of Ordinary on National #TeachAg Day

Be part of the #TeachAg movement as you and other agriculture programs across the United States Break Out of Ordinary on NAAE National #TeachAg Day - September 18^th, 2025!

NAAE is hosting a national #TeachAg Breakout Challenge on September 18^th, and we’re inviting high schoolers to compete. The challenge is designed for students to work as a team, solving breakout-style puzzles. Along the way, they will learn about the career of agricultural education and how each of their unique skills, talents and personalities will be an asset if they choose a career as an agricultural educator.

Sign up to let your students Break Out of Ordinary on September 18^th!

• Any secondary ag teacher who is a NAAE member can register for the challenge.
• NAAE will ship a #TeachAg Breakout Challenge kit and instructions to all registered participants, to arrive before National #TeachAg Day.
• On #TeachAg Day, your students will complete the #TeachAg Breakout Challenge in class and post their time and team picture on NAAE’s Breakout Wall.
• The team with the best time wins! Glory, fame and a potential career as an agricultural educator are all at stake.
• Students will be engaged in a fun learning activity, discover why their unique skills are needed in agricultural education, why they might want to become agriculture teachers, and compete with other students and programs across the United States.
• Teachers will gain a fun new way to teach about the career of agricultural education they can use not only on #TeachAg Day, but any time it fits into the curriculum.

Collegiate Agricultural Education Programs

At the collegiate level, our #TeachAg Breakout Challenge will be the same activity, but with an added twist. We want you to invite a group of high schoolers to complete the challenge and practice your growing agricultural educator skillset by leading them in this activity.

It’s a great way to get students to campus and do some recruiting, or to get out to area schools and make connections. Same activity, same competition, but with the added bonus of connecting high school students with collegiate agricultural education programs!

Signups are now live. Challenge spots are limited, so signup now and make plans to Break Out of Ordinary with your students this #TeachAg Day!

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It Starts in the Classroom 

It Starts in the Classroom is a short documentary from NAAE about becoming a high school agriculture teacher. On National #TeachAg Day, we encourage you to share the journey of Brandon Bixler and Whitney Evans, two pre-service agricultural education majors working toward becoming high school agriculture teachers. This 20-minute film is a great way to get your students interested in the career of agricultural education. Visit our It Starts in the Classroom webpage to download the documentary and related resources.