New to the staff this year, ag teacher Callie Hays teaches multiple Animal Science classes including Livestock Productions and Small Animal Management, and Floral Design, which is her favorite class to teach. Hays is also an FFA instructor and helps students show their animals and compete on other FFA teams. She said the thing she enjoys most about teaching is the extracurricular time she gets with the students.

Hays graduated from Texas A&M University and majored in Horticulture & Business and has taught four years. When Hays was younger, she swore she would never become a teacher, but that changed as she got older. “Well to start off, my parents were teachers and I swore I wouldn’t become one,” Hays said. “But I wanted to give back and do something good so I became a teacher.”