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Teacher Focus Group Questions and Guide (Page 1 of 2)Th e Burlington School Food Project has been working in your school district for 2 yearsand has taken on these three goals:1. Increased awareness, engagement, and consumption of local and healthyfoods by Burlington School children2. Implementation of a Food Action Plan to increase access and use of local andhealthy foods3. Build community capacity to meet the food needs of low-income Burlingtonschool district studentsTh e following are questions on what impacts you have seen as a result of this project inyour school district. All of your responses will be confidential and your answers will inno way affect your participation in the BSFP. By food, farms and nutrition education wemean a way to integrate critical issues of children’s diets and health and the impact ofnutrition on academic performance into your existing curriculum.Students1. Since this project started working with the school district 3 years ago, whatspecific food, farm and nutrition topics have been covered in your classroom?2. What changes have you seen in your students skills, knowledge and attitudetowards food, farms and nutrition education?3. What are examples of how you know students are more aware, more engaged,and consuming more healthy and local foods?Curriculum4. What changes in your curriculum have been made in food, farm and nutritioneducation?5. In what ways have you integrated food, farm and nutrition education intoyour curriculum? i.e. farm tours, ag/food related curriculum, cooking, etc.6. What are the top three best practices that you recommend other teachers useto integrate food, farm and nutrition education?7. How have you measured the success of integrating food, farm and nutritioneducation in your curriculum and what were the results?Farm Conclusions to School and Sample RecommendationsTools and ResourcesTaste Tests8. At what level did your students participate in the school taste tests?9. How did your students respond to participating in the taste tests?www.farmtoschool.org 163