Pilot Light is a Chicago chef-founded Food Education nonprofit that partners with educators to bring food into everyday classroom learning. Pilot Light's enduring mission is 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. Through our cohesive model for classroom food education, we create and deliver standards-aligned food education lessons that are integrated into instruction in traditional subjects like math, reading, history, and science. With our support, Pilot Light’s community of teachers uses food to support effective and engaging learning in the classroom. Our model builds on students’ knowledge of and experiences with food to demonstrate how food connects us to each other, our communities, and our world, while advancing awareness of food systems and advocating for food equity.