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North Elementary Teacher Judi Roach was named one of two teachers to receive the 2016 teacher of the year by the Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture's Board of Directors, Promotion and Education Committee and staff.
The Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture is a nonprofit grassroots organization, that works to benefit Nebraska through education service and Advocacy.
Roach first participated in the Ag Pen Pal Program in 2012. Her students wrote letters to Jeff and Robyn Huffman, Lincoln County Farm Bureau members and Ag Pen Pals. The students also visited the Huffman Farm.
"The visit to the farm made the whole Ag Pen Pal experience come full circle," Roach said in a press release.
The experience with the Ag Pen Pal program led to the students creating a show that uses their footage from the field trip to the Huffman Family Farm, and that is shared with students in the first through the fourth grades. Roach still implements the Ag Pen Pal Program with the Huffman Family.
Roach's class also participated in Google hangout sessions with Jeff Huffman, where the students were able to ask him questions.
"It was great that we were there on the first day of planting via technology," Roach said in the press release.
The other teacher to win the award was Anica Brown, a seventh grade teacher at Pound Middle School in Lincoln.
"Both of these educators demonstrate how teachers can incorporate agriculture examples and hands on teaching methods into standards-based curriculum to engage the next generation in critical thinking about where their food, fiber and fuel comes from," said Megahn Schafer, executive director of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture, in a press release.
According to the press release, each teacher is awarded with an all-expenses paid trip to the National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in Litchfield Park, Ariz., which will be held June 20-24. The winners will attend tour of Ag businesses and local farms as well as collaborate with educators from across the country on how to implement Ag in the classroom.
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