2:00 Overview of Farm to School/ECE Institutes - Betsy Rosenbluth
2: 20 Vermont's veteran perspective on Farm to Institutes - Cynthia Greene
2:40 Mississippi’s Farm to ECE Institutes - Umi Mills
3:00 Oregon and Washington’s Work on Building an Institute - Angela Hedstrom
3:15 Nebraska’s Farm to School Institutes- Sarah Smith
Q & A
This webinar will focus on Farm to School/Early Childhood Institutes. The Institute model from Shelburne farms is a unique year-long professional learning opportunity for selected school, district, or early childhood teams. The institute brings teams together to build relationships, skills, and a collaborative action plan for their school, district, or ECE. With the support of a coach, teams spend the school year putting their plans into action and strengthening their capacity to impact children, cafeterias, and communities, with change that lasts. Learn about these successful programs, what makes each state’s program unique, considerations they have taken in adapting the programs to ECEs, the biggest takeaways from participating in the institute adaptation program for their state, or collaboration, and plans for the future.