Deadline approaching to apply for VAITC 2026 Teacher of the Year Award

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) – Teachers, applications will soon be due for Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom’s Teacher of the Year Award. The past has proven, the winner could be a teacher from one of our hometowns.

You don’t have to be an ag teacher. All you have to do is show how you integrate agriculture into your lesson plans.

In 2023, Jennifer Hatch, a seventh-grade math teacher at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Franklin County, won the award. She used a hydroponics garden to teach her kids math concepts…

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