JEFFERSON Metropolis, Mo.— The Missouri Division of Elementary and Secondary Education recently named Keith Dietzschold Agricultural Education director and Missouri FFA Affiliation state advisor, efficient July 1, 2021. He takes over for Leon Busdieker who retired June 30. Dietzschold was earlier thanhand northwest district supervisor and state FFA authorities secretary.

“The agriculture education profession has been an thrilling one,” Dietzschold said. “I am A tutorial expert by selection, not by probability. Right now’s college students are our future, And that i have The prospect to work with People who assist type and mould The Prolonged time period leaders of this good state and nation. Nothing Might be extra rewarding!”

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Dietzschold acquired a Bachelor of Science diploma in animal science from the College of Missouri-Columbia in 1982. After returning house to farm Collectively with his father Inside the household’s row crop and swine operation, Dietzschold returned to MU To finish a Grasp’s in Education, Agriculture Education emphasis, and graduated in December 1984.

A typeer agricultural education teacher and FFA Advisor, Dietzschold taught in Chillicothe, Cameron and Lathrop earlier than becoming a member of DESE in 2011. He is a member of the Nationwide Affiliation for Agriculture Educators and Missouri Vocational Agriculture Instructors Affiliation (MVATA). He has additionally served on pretty A pair of committees for the Nationwide FFA Group and MVATA. Dietzschold was honored in 2018 with the Peter Myers Distinguished Service Award, was named Instructor of the Yr by the Missouri Vocational Affiliation in 1997 and was an Eddy Award Winner from Missouri Public Education in 1998. He is additionally a previous recipient of the MVATA Distinguished Service Award.

Dietzschold and his spouse, Linda, reside in Boonville. They’ve two grown youngsters and one granddaughter.

As director of agricultural education and state FFA advisor, Dietzschold will oversee Missouri’s agricultural education program, together with the state’s 351 FFA chapters and 25,662 members. The FFA makes a constructive distinction Inside the lives Of college students by creating their potential for premier management, private progress and profession success by way of agricultural education.