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| Executive Director, Cathy Musick, presents to a group of grade school students. |
The contribution to the Ag Advocate Challenge, pooled
together with other donations, allowed KFAC to reach over 23,000 Kansas
elementary students and their teachers. Donor dollars helped pay for printing
of lesson plans, educator guides and Kansas Kids Connection Magazines.
Additional dollars were leveraged as teachers attended
summer graduate courses and in-service trainings. Funding was used to perform
research and development activities to develop new delivery methods for
agriculture literacy lesson plans.
The KFAC mission is to “Connect Classrooms to Kansas Agriculture.”
“We teach about the importance of food production and
delivery systems and use agriculture as a tool to reach core curriculum goals
in math, reading, science, history, and social studies,” said Cathy Musick,
executive director of KFAC. “Currently,
we reach about five percent of Kansas elementary students. Our goal is to
double that in the next three years. Ag Advocate funding is critical in
allowing us to increase our reach while maintaining excellent programming and
developing new delivery methods that are efficient and effective for Kansas
teachers.”
Musick noted that KFAC is grateful to the donors and looks
forward to continued support as they continue to grow the program.
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