PILOT LIGHT
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Mission Statement
To support students as they learn and advocate for informed choices by bridging the lessons they learn in their classrooms to the foods on their lunch trays, at home, and in their communities. Our vision is To create a world of knowledgeable and engaged changemakers for an equitable, sustainable, and accessible food future.
About This Cause
Pilot Light, a Chicago-based nonprofit with national reach, has reached 12,000 Pre-K-12th grade students with food education that combats social determinants of health by teaching about food holistically and sharing how food decisions impact health and communities. Our scalable, evidence-based model, which was developed by a team of chefs, educators & behavioral scientists, is unique: through curriculum & training, we build teacher capacity to deliver education that teaches about food-through food. Teachers are also connected to community-based resources to adapt lessons to their students’/families’ distinct food environments. Pilot Light fills the food education gap . We support and guide teachers to integrate food and nutrition education into everyday subjects like English, math, social studies and science. The program builds on existing inventories of food knowledge and skills to facilitate healthy behaviors, engage families more deeply, and reduce the diet-related life expectancy gap. To advance food education and its health promoting benefits, we extend Food Education Fellowships to teachers interested in our integrated model. Fellows teach food education lessons weekly, receive monthly professional development and 1:1 coaching from Pilot Light, write new food education lessons, and collect impact data in exchange for a generous stipend. Through our online Food Education Center, teachers everywhere can access and download our Common Core-aligned lessons free of charge. And families can visit our Family Resource Center which features videos with easy-to-follow recipes that your family can make together and which align with lessons that advance Common Core academic standards as well as our food education standards.