2024 Food Education Action Week
Date: October 7, 2024
Time: October 7-11, 2024
This October, Pilot Light is hosting our first ever week of Food Education action: an opportunity for teachers to shine a spotlight on their Food Education work and for us to collectively advocate for the power of Food Education by amplifying your classrooms' stories!
Take action this October by participating in Pilot Light’s first ever Food Education in Action Week!
Food Education in Action week is an opportunity for educators to share their stories and get their school communities involved in their Food Education work.
All Food Education teachers are invited to participate in this week of action! Promote your work and activate your school community during the week of October 7th-11th (or any time in October)! This is a week to shine a spotlight on the incredible Food Education work being done in classrooms across the country. Additionally, we hope to raise awareness about the importance of Food Education in communities nationwide.
Ways to Participate
This is a choose your own adventure! We invite All Food Ed. teachers to participate in a way that feels authentic for their classroom and community.
Here are just a few ways you can participate!
- Send us your Food Education story – we’ll share it on Pilot Light’s social media pages
- Send a newsletter or email to your school community about the impact Food Education has had on your teaching practice
- Teach a lesson from this list of lesson plans from the Food Education Center
- Invite an elected official to participate in or observe a Food Education lesson using our mini advocacy toolkit
- Create a shared school food experience:
- Invite someone new to your classroom (a caretaker, school administrator, or community member) to read a favorite food book and/or share food memories with your students
- Collaborate with a School Food Professional to read about food to your students and share about their work in the school cafeteria
- Work with another teacher at your school to have a shared classroom cooking or food experience.