How to Sustain & Institutionalize your Farm to School program through Agriculture Education & Career Technical Education (CTE) Funds

Google Survey

Padlet

https://forms.gle/bEfu3B3kapWSDWtq9

https://padlet.com/jioimo3/Farm2School

Objectives & Outcomes

• Identify the fundamentals of making the Farm to School grant sustainable
• Explain what Career Technical Education & Ag Education is
• Explain what a CTSO does and it’s benefits
• Create a checklist in making the program sustainable
• List grants that are available, how to get them & what they are used for
• Discuss with teachers, administrators, and students about managing an ag education program & FFA.

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Fundamentals of a Farm to School Program

1. Innovation in nutrition education between cafeterias, classrooms and communities
2. Sustainable Food Production & Procurement of CA produced foods
3. High quality student experience

How can we package this all together?

How can CTE Support, Sustain & Institutionalize Your Program

• Career Technical Education provides:
• Industry based skills
• Hands on Learning
• Quality opportunities for students
• Quality standardize based curriculum
• Over 15 CTE pathways to choose from
• Grants available to assist with program development

What are the requirements to receive CTE funds?

Requirements to receive apply for CTE funds :

• 2 course pathway sequence (concentrator and capstone course)
• Advisory Committee (community stakeholders & supporters)
• CTSO (career technical student organization that provides leadership opportunities to students)

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Agriculture Education

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Where Agriculture Education steps in

• Many CTE programs are able to create a 2 course pathway and gather supporters to create an advisory committee.

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• Many of them sometimes struggle with the CTSO (career tech student organization). CTSO’s provide leadership opportunities as well as industry level skills to students.

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• Having this piece of the puzzle will help sustain your Farm to School program well after the grant money is gone.

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• Having a CTSO will provide stability within your CTE program, continue supporting students with industry

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Breakout Rooms

1. Grants: How to apply & what they entail.
2. Teacher/Administrator - how to operate & manage your school farm.
3. FFA members - benefits of Agriculture Education and what they got out of it - student’s voice

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10 minutes each room.

Please use your workbook as you go through each room.

Feel free to ask questions in the chat and add information to the padlet.

Introductions

Teachers - Jessica Fernandes and Scot Worrell from Buena Park

Administrator - Dan Sage - Buena Park

Present FFA Members - Southern Region Officers - Makena Stansai, Brian Kavanagh, & Andrew Angulo

Past FFA Members - Hannah Kunkle & Edwin Madrid

Grants

How can CTE Funds Support Farm to School Programs?

CTE funds are available to districts who have CTE programs. The benefit of CTE funds is to support these programs and provide them funding for equipment, supplies, educational supplies that support industry needs, and anything that is incentivizing the program to become better.

Being able to receive CTE funds would help districts support their Farm to School programs by providing materials and supplies that can be used to achieve a sustainable program that will last after the Farm to School grant is gone.

Grants - Requirements

1. Standard based curriculum taught by credentialed instructor.
2. 2 course pathway sequence consisting of concentrator and the Capstone. If it is a three-course pathway that must include an intro class, concentrator, and Capstone (AIG).
3. Advisory Board consisting of community members and stakeholders.
4. Career Technical Student Organization that focuses on leadership development.

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Grants

Perkins

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CTEIG

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Agriculture Incentive Grant

Perkins

• Federal Grant
• Helps improve CTE programs
• Integrates academics and CTE instruction, serve special populations & meets gender equity needs

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Source: https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/careerteched/pubdocs/perkinsallowable.pdf

Perkins

• Application Due: May 1

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• More Information: https://cte.ed.gov/legislation/perkins-v

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• CDE Perkins Webpage: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/pk/

Career Technical Education Incentive Grant

• State Grant
• Established as a state education, economic & workforce development initiative
• Gives K-12 students the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment & postsecondary education
• Data Collecting: March 5
• Final Report: June 31

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• CDE Webpage: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/ig/

Allowable Purchases

• Materials to support curriculum instruction
• CTE Professional Development
• Purchase CTE equipment to meet with industry needs
• Food for student conferences, transportation, student field trips
• Facility repair for specific CTE course equipment
• Purchase or lease of vehicles

Agriculture Incentive Grant

• State Grant
• To help improve the quality of agriculture education programs
• Matching grant - district has to match funds
• Can be done with CTEIG, Perkins or other state/federal funding
• High School only

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• Application Due: June 30th

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• CDE Webpage: https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r17/agin20rfa.asp

Allowable Funds

• Classroom/Instructional materials and supplies
• Travel, conferences, professional development
• Rentals, leases, repairs
• Transportation for students to conferences
• Site improvement, building improvement
• Equipment and equipment replacement

Getting Started

Where to go from here?

Don’t wait! Start working on your checklist!

Webpage link to checklist: http://www.southernregionffa.com/cdfa-workshop.html

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Webpage has all of the material that we covered today - including the slideshows, website links, and padlet.

Need more help?

Information is in the workbook & on the webpage

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Not too sure who to contact with your questions? Feel free to email me:

jioimo@cde.ca.gov

Questions?