NACTA Abstract Submissions

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 30, 2026

Author notification: April 2026

Welcome to the NACTA Abstract Submission Platform

North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for Poster and Oral presentations for the NACTA Conference to be held in Starkville, Mississippi, USA from June 22-25, 2026. The NACTA conference provides opportunities to connect with and learn from others who share the same passion for the improvement of teaching and learning in agriculture, food and natural resources. The annual NACTA conference will provide you with new teaching techniques, ideas and resources. It is also one of the best professional development activities for networking with other teaching professionals where the common discipline is “teaching.” 

To streamline the categorization process, we are asking authors to identify if their submission is Scholarship or Practice. These two categories closely reflect the differences between research manuscripts and teaching tips published in the NACTA Journal.

  1. Scholarship abstract – the systematic study and investigation of teaching and learning methods to gain deeper understanding and improve practice; scholarship generally includes the collection of evidence and analysis of the results to inform future practice.  This category includes quantitative, qualitative or mixed-method studies and may be small- or large-scale projects.
  2. Practice abstract – the day-to-day actions and methods a teacher uses in a classroom to deliver instruction. Practice is often based on what we have learned from scholarship or may be a pre-cursor to a future scholarly process.  This category provides the opportunity to share a teaching practice with reflection on how it could be implemented in other classrooms/disciplines but relies on the instructor’s first-person perspective rather than using systematic evidence, similar to a NACTA Journal Teaching Tip.

POSTER SESSIONS – General Information
All attendees of the meeting can submit an abstract for a poster presentation. Abstracts shall be 300 words or less in length. While references and figures are a usual component of a full poster presentation, do not include them in the 300-word abstract. Abstracts will be peer reviewed for quality and relevance. Accepted posters will be displayed on-site in Starkville, Mississippi.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS – General Information
Oral presentations are 10 minutes in length with an additional 5 minutes for Q&A with the audience (totaling 15 minutes per presentation).

Abstracts should be 300 words or less. Do not include references, tables, or figures in your abstract (though they are a welcome portion of the live presentation).

Abstracts will be peer reviewed for quality and relevance.

The deadline for abstract submission is January 30, 2026.

Author decisions will be sent in April 2026 to the corresponding author on the abstract. If accepted, the presenter of the abstract will be required to register for the conference by the early bird deadline of April 25, 2026. After that date, any abstract without a registered presenter will be removed from the program.

Click here to view an example abstract with proper formatting.