Our Vision

Every Manitoba student will be agriculturally literate when they graduate high school.

Our Mission

We inspire educators to promote agriculture literacy for a sustainable future.

Growing connections
helps us achieve
more together

2022 was an absolute whirlwind for Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba, and it’s all thanks to amazing partners like YOU!

With your help, we were able to grow our connections and expand our reach to more teachers, students, volunteers, and agriculture professionals than ever before. This growth meant that we could provide even more exciting resources, professional development opportunities, and hands-on learning experiences.

The power of growing connections allowed us to transform how Manitoba students think critically about agriculture and strengthen their connection to food and food production.

But that’s not all – with your continued support, we can shape a generation of informed decision-makers, voters, consumers, and agriculture champions who are ready to tackle the challenges of the future.

Scroll down to see just how far we’ve come and get excited for how far we’ll go together!

Our Approach

  1. We partner across a network of agricultural organizations, leaders
    and activated learning communities to facilitate the best methods of increasing agriculture literacy in Manitoba students.
  2. We connect educators, students, volunteers, and agricultural organizations and offer them accurate, balanced and curriculum-linked resources, professional development and direct agricultural learning experiences.
  3. We advance the discovery, awareness, and critical thinking skills of Manitoba students on topics related to agriculture and their personal connection to food and food production.
  4. We invite educators and the agriculture industry to participate in program and resource development to determine what works best to grow confident learners and future problem-solvers armed with 21st century skills.
  5. We deliver high-quality, in-demand and engaging programs, resources and professional development opportunities that teachers trust, want to use, and change the way students view their connection
    to the agriculture industry.

The Opportunity to Grow

2022 was an exceptional year of growth and achievement, and we couldn’t have done it without our incredible partners and supporters. You have helped to create and shape critical thinkers — the future YOU.

Thanks to your unwavering dedication, the demand for our programs and resources continues to grow. Our resources are free, but they cost money to produce. We’ve also had to limit the number of classrooms we can accept in our programs due to unprecedented growth.

To answer the call, we’re developing an ambitious and important strategic growth plan. As we grow connections even further, we can:

  • Eliminate waiting lists and increase engagement opportunities for teachers and students
  • Meet current needs and develop new, high-quality resources that teachers want
  • Measure impact of public trust through what we offer
  • Catalyze and measure our contribution in workforce growth
  • Grow volunteer leadership opportunities
  • Invite more diversity in agriculture education
  • Grow our team and the systems to manage growth

Our success in 2022 is just the beginning, and we look forward to continuing our mission to create and shape critical thinkers who are ready to meet the challenges of the future as informed decision-makers, voters, consumers, and agriculture champions. Thank you for your incredible support – together, we can make a difference that will last for generations to come.

A Win For Education
AITC-M creates curriculum-linked, high-quality resources and programs for teachers and memorable educational experiences for all students in Manitoba.

A Win For Agriculture
Agriculturally literate students contribute positive outcomes for public trust and a knowledgable and skilled workforce for Manitoba’s agriculture industry — an important economic driver in the province. Building public trust is necessary to ensure those working hard to produce safe, sustainable, affordable food for families have the support of all Manitobans.

A Win For Manitoba
Everyone in Manitoba values agriculture as it is the foundation for nutrition, fibre, and fuel. Agriculturally-literate students are ready to meet the challenges of the future as informed consumers, decision-makers, employees, and voters.

A Message from
the Executive Director

By every measure, 2022 was an exceptional year for Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba. We provided teachers with more connections to agriculture than ever before, and now have a presence in every school division in Manitoba! More resources went out our doors than ever before. Many of our programs enjoyed record-breaking numbers.

With the support of our partners, we launched 18 new resources. AITC-M, with the support of Manitoba Agriculture, is working on ways to increase teacher awareness and uptake of our resources through Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning school curriculum materials as one big step to reaching our vision of every Manitoba student being agriculturally literate.

None of this is possible without the hard work of our passionate team – and the members, donors, funders, sponsors, and community partners who understand
how the work we do can shape the future of our province, and I believe, our world.

Our success in 2022 has inspired us to set some incredible goals for 2030. We want to offer more of what educators want everywhere in Manitoba so they have what they need to succeed wherever they are located in the province. We want to work with new partners to leverage innovative ideas about Manitoba’s agriculture story. We want to have at least one teacher champion in every Manitoba school who knows agriculture, includes it in their lesson plans, and promotes it to their colleagues. We want all our French schools to have AITC-M offerings available to them. We want to grow and bring more value to our volunteer program. Finally, we want more students entering the industry right after high school and post-secondary.

Growing connections is what led us here – and will ensure we achieve each of these goals and more in the years ahead.

– Katharine Cherewyk
Executive Director

A Message from
the President

Growing connections is about building relationships. Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba builds meaningful relationships between the people who produce the food we eat and the people who eat it – especially curious young minds hungry to understand where their food comes from.

Building relationships has been the highlight of my first year as president of AITC-M – relationships with new board members, staff and partners, funders, members, donors, supporters – the very people who make the work we do possible. What an honour and a pleasure it has been to watch these relationships thrive and grow over the past year.

One of the challenges of relationship-building during a pandemic is finding ways to create those connections when you can’t meet in person. In 2022, AITC-M built
on the success of its innovative virtual programming by connecting with more classrooms than ever before. Watching farmer Will Bergmann answer students’ questions while live-streaming from the cockpit of his combine during one of our Follow the Farmers tours is all the proof I need of the amazing power of connection.

This year reminded us that relationships sometimes change. In September 2022, after serving as AITC-M’s executive director for seven and a half years, Sue Clayton embraced a new opportunity and passed the torch to Katharine Cherewyk, our former Operations and Development Manager and another fantastic relationship builder.

As our new ED, Katharine’s expertise in strategic planning, communications and fundraising have already helped AITC-M launch new programs and expand existing ones. Her focus on building and strengthening community partnerships has already opened doors for exciting possibilities in the years ahead.

Here’s to growing more connections in 2023 – and beyond!

– Laura Holtmann
President

Our Growth
in 2022

437 schools in 2022

219 schools in 2020

AITC-M in active in 153 Manitoba communities and in 1 in every 3 schools in Manitoba

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Alexander

  • Alexander School
  • Wild berry Homeschool

Alonsa

  • Alonsa School

Altona

  • École Elmwood School
  • Prairie Wind School
  • Rachel Toews
  • W. C. Miller Collegiate
  • Elias Family School
  • École West Park School
  • Homeschool
  • École Parkside School

Anola

  • Anola School

Arborg

  • Arborg Early/Middle Years School

Ashern

  • Ashern Early Years School

Austin

  • Austin Elementary
  • Pine Creek School

Baldur

  • Baldur School

Balmoral

  • Lightly School
  • Prairie Blossom School
  • Balmoral School

Beausejour

  • École Beauséjour Early Years

Benito

  • Benito School

Binscarth

  • Binscarth Elementary

Birnie

  • Rolling Acres School

Birtle

  • Birtle Collegiate
  • Birtle Elementary

Blumenort

  • Blumenort School

Boissevain

  • Boissevain School

Brandon

  • Meadows School
  • Maryland Park School
  • Christian Heritage School
  • Waverly Park School
  • Valleyview Centennial School
  • École Harrison
  • Riverview School
  • Riverheights School
  • New Era School
  • Neelin High
  • Linden Lanes School
  • Kirkcaldy Heights School
  • King George School
  • George Fitton School
  • Earl Oxford School
  • Crocus Plains Regional Secondary

Bruxelles

  • Ste. Marie School

Carberry

  • R. J. Waugh Elementary
  • Carberry Collegiate
  • Acadia Colony School

Carman

  • Carman Elementary
  • Carman Collegiate

Cartwright

  • Cartwright School

Crystal City

  • Thomas Greenway Middle Years School
  • Crystal City Early Years SchoolDauphin
  • Henderson Elementary
  • École Macneill
  • Smith-Jackson School
  • Lt. Col. Barker V.C. School
  • Decker
  • Decker Colony School
  • Deloraine
  • Deloraine School
  • Dominion City
  • Glenway Colony School
  • Green Ridge School
  • Douglas
  • Douglas Elementary
  • Dugald
  • École Dugald School
  • East Selkirk
  • Happy Thought School
  • East St. Paul
  • Robert Andrews School
  • Dr. F.W.L. Hamilton School
  • Elie
  • Iberville Colony School
  • Lakeside Colony School
  • Blooming Prairie Colony School
  • Elkhorn
  • Elkhorn School
  • Elm Creek
  • Elm Creek School
  • Elphinstone
  • Keeseekoowenin School
  • Emerson
  • Emerson Elementary
  • Erickson
  • Erickson Elementary
  • Eriksdale
  • Eriksdale School
  • Hoosier homeschool
  • Ethelbert
  • Ethelbert School
  • Fairford
  • Pinaymootang School
  • Fisher Branch
  • Fisher Branch Collegiate
  • Forrest
  • Forrest Elementary
  • Gilbert Plains
  • Gilbert Plains Elementary
  • Gimli
  • Sigurbjorg Stefansson Early School
  • Gimli High School
  • Gladstone
  • Gladstone Elementary
  • Glenboro
  • Glenboro School
  • Glenella
  • Glenella School
  • Grass River School
  • Grandview
  • Grandview School
  • Poplar Grove School
  • Gretna
  • Gretna Elementary
  • Grosse Isle
  • Grosse Isle School
  • Grunthal
  • South Oaks Elementary
  • Gypsumville
  • Gypsumville School
  • Hamiota
  • Hamiota Collegiate
  • Hamiota Elementary
  • Hazelridge
  • Hazelridge School
  • Holland
  • Boyne Valley School
  • Holland Elementary
  • Île Des Chênes
  • École Île-Des-Chênes School
  • École/Coll. Rég. Gabrielle-Roy
  • Inglis
  • Inglis Elementary
  • Killarney
  • Holmfield Colony School
  • Killarney School
  • Wellwood School
  • Kleefeld
  • Kleefeld School
  • La Broquerie
  • Arborgate School
  • La Salle
  • La Salle School
  • Lac Du Bonnet
  • Centennial School
  • Langruth
  • Langruth Elementary
  • Lauder
  • Maple Grove Colony School
  • Laurier
  • École Laurier
  • Lockport
  • Lockport School
  • Macgregor
  • Beaver Creek School
  • Macgregor Collegiate
  • H. B. Community School
  • Macgregor Elementary
  • Manitou
  • Manitou Elementary
  • Mccreary
  • Mccreary School
  • Melita
  • Melita School
  • Miami
  • Miami School
  • Miniota
  • Miniota School
  • Minnedosa
  • Tanner’s Crossing School
  • Odanah Colony School
  • Minnedosa Collegiate
  • Mitchell
  • Mitchell Elementary School
  • Moosehorn
  • Alf Cuthbert School
  • Morden
  • Minnewasta School
  • Maple Leaf Elementary School
  • Morden Collegiate
  • Morris
  • Morris School

Neepawa

  • Twilight Colony School
  • Neepawa Middle School
  • Hazel M. Kellington School

New Bothwell

  • Bothwell School

Niverville

  • Niverville Collegiate
  • Niverville Elementary

O’Hanley

  • Black River Anishinabe Schoolanley

Oak Bluff

  • Oak Bluff Community School

Oak Lake

  • Oak Lake Community School

Oak River

  • Oak River Elementary

Oakbank

  • Homeschool
  • Oak Bank Elementary

Oakville

  • Oakville School

Onanole

  • Onanole Elementary

Opaskwayak

  • Oscar Lathlin Collegiate

Opaskwayak Cree Nation

  • Joe A. Ross School

Pierson

  • Pierson School

Pilot Mound

  • Pilot Mound School

Pinawa

  • F. W. Gilbert School

Pine Falls

  • Sagkeeng Anicinabe Elementary School
  • Sagkeeng Consolidated School

Plum Coulee

  • Plum Coulee School

Portage La Prairie

  • Yellowquill School
  • Woodland Colony School
  • Portage Collegiate Institute
  • Westpark School
  • Solid Rock Ministries Christian School
  • New Rosedale School
  • Brantwood School
  • Brennan School
  • Fort La Reine School
  • Good Hope Colony School
  • La Verendrye School
  • Norquay Colony School
  • Northern Breeze Colony School
  • École Crescentview School
  • École Arthur Meighen School

Powerview

  • Powerview School

Reston

  • Reston School

Riding Mountain

  • Parkview School

Rivers

  • Rivers Elementary

Riverton

  • Riverton Early Middle Years School
  • Riverton Collegiate

Roblin

  • Roblin Elementary
  • Parkland Christian School

Rosenfeld

  • Rosenfeld Elementary

Rosenort

  • Rosenort School

Rossburn

  • Rossburn Elementary

Rosser

  • Rosser School

Russell

  • Major Pratt School

Saint-Boniface

  • École Précieux-Sang
  • École Lacerte

Saint-Georges

  • École Communautaire Saint-Georges

Saint-Jean-Baptiste

  • École Régionale Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Saint-Lazare

  • École Saint-Lazare

Saint-Pierre-Jolys

  • Ecole Heritage Immersion

Sanford

  • J. A. Cuddy Elementary

Schanzenfeld

  • Prairie Dale School
  • Hochfeld School
  • Southwood Elementary

Selkirk

  • Lord Selkirk Regional Secondary
  • Robert Smith Elementary

Shilo

  • École La Source
  • École O’Kelly School

Shoal Lake

  • Shoal Lake School

Snow Lake

  • Joseph H. Kerr School

Souris

  • Souris School
  • Souris River Colony School
  • Newdale Colony School

Sprague

  • Ross L. Gray School

St. Adolphe

  • École St. Adolphe School

St. Claude

  • St. Claude School Complex

St. Eustache

  • École Saint-Eustache

St. Francois Xavier

  • St. Francois Xavier Community School

St. Malo

  • École Saint-Malo School

St. Norbert

  • La Barriere Crossings School
  • Parc La Salle School

St. Pierre-Jolys

  • École Héritage Immersion

Ste Rose Du Lac

  • Ste. Rose School

Ste. Anne

  • Ste. Anne Elementary School

Steinbach

  • Woodlawn School
  • Southwood School
  • Elmdale School
  • Clearspring Middle School
  • Stonybrook Middle School
  • Steinbach Christian School

Stonewall

  • École R. W. Bobby Bend School

Stony Mountain

  • Stony Mountain Elementary

Strathclair

  • Strathclair Community School

Swan Lake

  • Prairie Mountain Elementary School

Swan River

  • Heyes Elementary
  • Community Bible Fellowship Christian
  • Swan Valley Regional Secondary School
  • Taylor Elementary
  • École Swan River South School

Teulon

  • Teulon Collegiate
  • Teulon Elementary

The Pas

  • Mary Duncan School
  • École Opasquia School
  • Scott Bateman Middle School
  • Kelsey Community School

Thompson

  • Burntwood Elementary
  • R. D. Parker Collegiate

Treherne

  • Treherne Elementary
  • Shady Lane School
  • Treherne Collegiate

Tyndall

  • Gillis School

Virden

  • Virden Collegiate
  • Goulter School
  • Virden Junior High
  • Mary Montgomery School

Vita

  • Homeschool
  • Shevchenko School

Waskada

  • Waskada School

Wawanesa

  • Nature Valley Colony School

West St. Paul

  • West St. Paul School

Whitemouth

  • Whitemouth School

Winkler

  • Blumenfeld School
  • Winkler Elementary
  • J. R. Walkof Elementary
  • Emerado Centennial

Winnipeg Beach

  • Winnipeg Beach School

Winnipegosis

  • Winnipegosis Elementary

AITC-M in active in 153 Manitoba communities and in 1 in every 3 schools in Manitoba

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  • Alexander School
  • Wild berry Homeschool

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  • Alonsa School

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  • École Elmwood School
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  • Rachel Toews
  • W. C. Miller Collegiate
  • Elias Family School
  • École West Park School
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  • École Parkside School

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  • Austin Elementary;
  • Pine Creek School

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  • Baldur School

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  • Lightly School
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  • Balmoral School

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  • École Beauséjour Early Years

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  • Benito School

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  • Binscarth Elementary

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  • Rolling Acres School

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  • Birtle Collegiate
  • Birtle Elementary

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  • Blumenort School

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  • Boissevain School

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  • Meadows School
  • Maryland Park School
  • Christian Heritage School
  • Waverly Park School
  • Valleyview Centennial School
  • École Harrison
  • Riverview School
  • Riverheights School
  • New Era School
  • Neelin High
  • Linden Lanes School
  • Kirkcaldy Heights School
  • King George School
  • George Fitton School
  • Earl Oxford School
  • Crocus Plains Regional Secondary

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  • Ste. Marie School

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  • R. J. Waugh Elementary
  • Carberry Collegiate
  • Acadia Colony School

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  • Carman Elementary
  • Carman Collegiate

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  • Cartwright School

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  • Thomas Greenway Middle Years School
  • Crystal City Early Years School

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  • Henderson Elementary
  • École Macneill
  • Smith-Jackson School
  • Lt. Col. Barker V.C. School

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  • Decker Colony School

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  • Deloraine School

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  • Glenway Colony School
  • Green Ridge School

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  • Douglas Elementary

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  • École Dugald School

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  • Happy Thought School

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  • Robert Andrews School
  • Dr. F.W.L. Hamilton School

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  • Iberville Colony School
  • ILakeside Colony School
  • IBlooming Prairie Colony School

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  • Elkhorn School

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  • Elm Creek School

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  • Keeseekoowenin School

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  • Emerson Elementary

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  • Erickson Elementary

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  • Eriksdale School
  • Hoosier homeschool

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  • Ethelbert School

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  • Pinaymootang School

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  • Fisher Branch Collegiate

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  • Forrest Elementary

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  • Gilbert Plains Elementary

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  • Gladstone Elementary

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  • Sigurbjorg Stefansson Early School
  • Gimli High School

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  • Glenboro School

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  • Glenella School
  • Grass River School

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  • Grandview School
  • Poplar Grove School

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  • Gretna Elementary

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  • Grosse Isle School

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  • South Oaks Elementary

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  • Gypsumville School

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  • Hamiota Collegiate
  • Hamiota Elementary

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  • Hazelridge School

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  • Boyne Valley School
  • Holland Elementary

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  • École Île-Des-Chênes School
  • École/Coll. Rég. Gabrielle-Roy

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  • Inglis Elementary

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  • Holmfield Colony School
  • Killarney School
  • Wellwood School

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  • Kleefeld School

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  • Arborgate School

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  • La Salle School

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  • Centennial School

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  • Langruth Elementary

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  • Maple Grove Colony School

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  • École Laurier

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  • Lockport School

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  • Beaver Creek School
  • Macgregor Collegiate
  • H. B. Community School
  • Macgregor Elementary

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  • Manitou Elementary

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  • Mccreary School

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  • Melita School

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  • Miami School

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  • Miniota School

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  • Tanner's Crossing School
  • Odanah Colony School
  • Minnedosa Collegiate

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  • Mitchell Middle School
  • Mitchell Elementary School

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  • Alf Cuthbert School

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  • Minnewasta School
  • Maple Leaf Elementary School
  • Morden Collegiate

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  • Morris School

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  • Twilight Colony School
  • Neepawa Middle School
  • Hazel M. Kellington School

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  • Bothwell School

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  • Niverville Collegiate
  • Niverville Elementary

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  • Black River Anishinabe School

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  • Oak Bluff Community School

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  • Oak Lake Community School

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  • Oak River Elementary

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  • Oak Bank Elementary

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  • Oakville School

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  • Onanole Elementary

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  • Oscar Lathlin Collegiate
  • Joe A. Ross School

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  • Pierson School

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  • Pilot Mound School

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  • Sagkeeng Anicinabe Elementary School
  • Sagkeeng Consolidated School

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  • Plum Coulee School

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  • Yellowquill School
  • Woodland Colony School
  • Portage Collegiate Institute
  • Westpark School
  • Solid Rock Ministries Christian School
  • New Rosedale School
  • Brantwood School
  • Brennan School
  • Fort La Reine School
  • Good Hope Colony School
  • La Verendrye School
  • Norquay Colony School
  • Northern Breeze Colony School
  • École Crescentview School
  • École Arthur Meighen School

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  • Powerview School

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  • Reston School

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  • Parkview School

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  • Rivers Elementary

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  • Riverton Early Middle Years School
  • Riverton Collegiate

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  • Roblin Elementary
  • Parkland Christian School

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  • Rosenfeld Elementary

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  • Rosenort School

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  • Rossburn Elementary

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  • Rosser School

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  • Major Pratt School

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  • École Communautaire Saint-Georges

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  • École Régionale Saint-Jean-Baptiste

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  • École Saint-Lazare

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  • École Héritage Immersion

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  • J. A. Cuddy Elementary

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  • Prairie Dale School
  • Hochfeld School
  • Southwood Elementary

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  • Lord Selkirk Regional Secondary
  • Robert Smith Elementary

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  • École La Source
  • École O'Kelly School

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  • Shoal Lake School

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  • Joseph H. Kerr School

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  • Souris School
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  • Ross L. Gray School

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  • École St. Adolphe School

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  • St. Claude School Complex

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  • École Saint-Malo School

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  • St. Francois Xavier Community School

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  • La Barriere Crossings School
  • Parc La Salle School

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  • Ste. Rose School

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  • Ste. Anne Elementary School

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  • Woodlawn School
  • Southwood School
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  • Clearspring Middle School
  • Stonybrook Middle School
  • Steinbach Christian School

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  • École R. W. Bobby Bend School

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  • Stony Mountain Elementaryl

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  • Strathclair Community School

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  • Prairie Mountain Elementary School

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AITC-M programs and
resources helped create

STUDENT
EXPERIENCES
IN 2022

Our Growth in Students
Registered In Programs

28,580 students

11,927 in 2020

Our Growth in
Teacher Champions

1,244 teachers

519 in 2020

Our Resources,
Flying Off the Shelves!

4,175
resources shipped in 2022

918 in 2020

14,711
resources downloaded in 2022

7,019 in 2020

21,224
website users in 2022

11,776 in 2020

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Career Exploration

The future you is sitting in a classroom right now. AITC-M is making sure we give them the information to understand all the opportunities there are for them in agriculture, and our newly launched thinkAG Career Exploration offerings are focused on bridging that gap.

In partnership with Enterprise Machine Intelligence & Learning Initiative (EMILI) and Agriculture in the Classroom Canada, Explore Digital Agriculture classroom presentations and resources are in high demand. These presentations link directly to science and careers curriculum. They engage students to think about how their interests, passions and talents can lead to careers
in agriculture — including emerging opportunities.

Thanks to funding provided by the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, our first thinkAG Career Expo was held in November. The Expo brought hands-on workshops and presentations to Grade 10 students at Kildonan East Collegiate, where they learned about food production, farming and more from people working in the agriculture and food community.

Canadian Agriculture Literacy Month

In March 2022, we delivered Canadian Agriculture Literacy Month (CALM) virtually for the second year and broke our registration record. Thanks to you and our six incredible video partners, we were able to reach more classrooms in remote communities than ever before through our passionate network of volunteers from the agriculture and food industry while adding value to our CALM programming. For example, this year’s teachers received a slate of exciting resources, including the much-anticipated Manitoba Seed Kit!

CALM is an initiative of Agriculture in the Classroom Canada.

Manitoba Ag Days
Adventure Virtual Program

After Manitoba Ag Days in-person events were postponed in 2022 due to COVID-19, AITC-M found an innovative way to push ahead by launching a new virtual program that lets Grade 7 students connect with our Ag Days activities in class or at home.

Think Global – Agriculture & Our World is a gamified learning experience that teaches students about food security, population and land distribution, trade, ag careers, and more. This activity was made possible thanks to funding from Manitoba Ag Days, Viterra, and the Canadian Agriculture Partnership.

NEW RESOURCES

Manitoba Seed Kit

In May, we launched the long-anticipated Manitoba Seed Kit, a box of educational goodies jam-packed with fun and interactive ways to learn about crops and seeds common to our province.

We’ve already distributed 650 Seed Kits to classrooms across Manitoba. Teachers tell us the activities are helping students discover a powerful lesson about food: that it’s fun and easy to grow their own!

Our connections were critical in creating this high-quality resource and we are so grateful to our funding partners and foundational sponsors for this collaboration. We relied on educators, specialists, and six different Manitoba seed providers to accomplish a single goal: bringing our crops to life for young learners.

kits delivered to classrooms

students reached

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture

In September 2022, we launched a virtual resource hub exploring Manitoba’s most important commodities. These fact sheets and e-learning modules were made possible thanks to the input and enthusiasm of subject matter specialists, educators and curriculum specialists, commodity organizations, producers, and the ground-breaking work of our sister organization Agriculture in the Classroom-Saskatchewan. We’re so grateful to the foundational sponsors for this initiative, including our presenting sponsor, Peak of the Market.

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture was our most accessed resource webpage last year. Teachers are using it to explore several curriculum areas through the lens of agriculture. We look forward to rolling out more commodities in 2023 and providing access to resources in French in the future.

NEW RESOURCES

Manitoba Seed Kit

In May, we launched the long-anticipated Manitoba Seed Kit, a box of educational goodies jam-packed with fun and interactive ways to learn about crops and seeds common to our province.

We’ve already distributed 650 Seed Kits to classrooms across Manitoba. Teachers tell us the activities are helping students discover a powerful lesson about food: that it’s fun and easy to grow their own!

Our connections were critical in creating this high-quality resource and we are so grateful to our funding partners and foundational sponsors for this collaboration. We relied on educators, specialists, and six different Manitoba seed providers to accomplish a single goal: bringing our crops to life for young learners.

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture

In September 2022, we launched a virtual resource hub exploring Manitoba’s most important commodities. These fact sheets and e-learning modules were made possible thanks to the input and enthusiasm of subject matter specialists, educators and curriculum specialists, commodity organizations, producers, and the ground-breaking work of our sister organization Agriculture in the Classroom-Saskatchewan. We’re so grateful to the foundational sponsors for this initiative, including our presenting sponsor, Peak of the Market.

The Foundations of Manitoba Agriculture was our most accessed resource webpage last year. Teachers are using it to explore several curriculum areas through the lens of agriculture. We look forward to rolling out more commodities in 2023 and providing access to resources in French in the future.

kits delivered to classrooms

students reached

Eat Well: Exploring Canada’s Food Guide

When the new Canada’s Food Guide launched in 2018, we heard from teachers that a resource exploring the “full plate story” of food would be useful – and, with support and guidance from nine amazing foundational sponsors, we answered the call. In October 2022, we launched Eat Well: Exploring Canada’s Food Guide, a kit full of interactive lessons, display materials and playing cards designed to help Grade 5-8 students explore healthy eating. Teachers praise the quality of the kit and its contents, and for that, we thank the many partners and sponsors who made Eat Well possible.

kits delivered to classrooms

students reached

TEACHER DRIVER

Celebrating a Leader in Agriculture Education

2023 Teacher Driver
Winner Elaine Owen

A champion of the life lessons and values that can germinate by growing food and learning about agriculture, Elaine Owen puts the growing in growing connections.

The recipient of the 2023 AITC-M Teacher Driver Award, Elaine teaches Grade 6 at Miami School — a K-12 institution 100 miles southwest of Winnipeg. She’s widely known in Miami for her passion for gardening and teaching her students about how agriculture connects our economy and society.

Elaine makes growing food a part of everyday life in her classroom. Not only does she have a Little Green Thumbs classroom garden inside her Grade 6 room, she also has an outdoor garden and apple tree that students participate in. Over the years, they’ve grown and enjoyed beets, carrots and many other vegetables year-round.

Elaine loves seeing the joy on her student’s faces in the morning when they notice something new in the garden. This year, the class pulled off a bumper crop of lettuce in their indoor garden — eating it for “weeks on end” and sharing extra with other grades.

Elaine has been a devoted attendee of AITC-M teacher workshops every fall and uses other programs and resources, including Eat Well: Exploring Canada’s Food Guide and attending Follow the Farmers virtual tours. She loves being introduced to new books every year at AITC-M workshops and says she’s “energized and joyful” when returning to the classroom.

Elaine has been an incredible teacher champion for AITC-M, and we are humbled to see how she’s been a role model for agriculture and food in Miami, showing her students where their food comes from and the impact it has on their community.

OUR MEMBERS & SPONSORS

Thank you to everyone who partnered with us in 2022

Our partners are helping create valuable resources for teachers and amazing educational experiences for students. They understand that engaged teachers and agriculturally literate students lead to positive outcomes for the Manitoba agriculture industry and the economy. Thank you for sharing our vision!

Perfect Partnerships

Please partner with us in 2023!

DONATE

We reached more students than ever this year —
and you made that happen. Our programming is 85% donor dependent and only possible with generous support from partners year after year. Our promise to you: we will lead public trust in agriculture in Manitoba and influence
its success for years to come! Visit aitc.mb.ca/donate to learn more.

VOLUNTEER

Volunteers are the face of agriculture for us and our students. Donate your time, passion and story for one or more of our programs. Get involved by visiting aitc.mb.ca

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For more information, please visit aitc.mb.ca or email Katharine Cherewyk at Katharine@aitc.mb.ca to explore options to partner with AITC-M.