Sentences with phrase «in school food reform»

I'd been involved in school food reform in my own district for only three months.

Thanks to those who offered some really kind words yesterday, and I can assure you that my leaving the PAC doesn't mean I've lost interest in school food reform!

I've been involved directly in school food reform for about one year — certainly not long enough to be a war - weary veteran, by any means.

I love the idea of involving kids in school food reform — who has more of a stake in the issue?

This should be required reading for anyone engaged in school food reform.

Cooper, one of the true pioneers in school food reform, writes:

Dana's put in long, hard hours in her district to bring about meaningful changes, and (more than many folks in the school food reform world), she's completely forthcoming about the fact that such changes require more than just creative thinking or the collective will of parents — they also cost real money.

I love the idea of swapping out «grace» or «wiggle room» for «flexibility,» a word which has become truly toxic in the school food reform community.

• Three years of access to Chef Ann Cooper, an acclaimed leader in school food reform, during her office hours.

As I say in my tagline, it's about «kids and food, in school and out,» and because of my own interest and involvement in school food reform on the ground, there's often a lot of talk about that here.

Allow me translate: What would the people I most admire in the school food reform arena — Janet Poppendieck, Mrs. Q, Chef Ann Cooper, Ed Bruske, and Dr. Susan Rubin — do?

In the five years I've been involved in school food reform here in Houston ISD, I've seen my district have mixed success in serving locally - grown fruits and vegetables in our school meals.

It's to Adamick's credit that she realizes there are no one - size - fits - all solutions in school food reform, and her disclaimers should be heeded by lay readers.

This school year marks my eighth as the Food Service Director of Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) and my seventeenth working in school food reform.

If I'd seen these slides when I first got involved in school food reform back in 2010, I would have been astonished and angry.

In my opinion, food education is of the same critical importance as what's on the menu, but it seems like it's often viewed as an afterthought in school food reform.

Michele: I totally agree that the cell phone is a powerful tool in school food reform.

She didn't go into detail but I was intrigued enough to Google her name, and I quickly learned that she's something of a cause celebre in the school food reform movement.

In other words, rather than «dismissing» or ignoring Bush's role in school food reform, which few outside the world of child nutrition policy even know or remember, I made sure to bring that fact to readers» attention.

Back in July, 2010, I was about two months into writing The Lunch Tray and had been involved in school food reform activities here in Houston for about five months.

Bri: Lately I fear that my realism in the school food reform area has led me to be labeled by some as a whiny pessimist or a naysayer, which is not a comfortable position for me.

Your analysis of who goes to most of these restaurants (die hards who are not terribly well informed or treat - seekers) strikes me as dead on, and I also had the thought that if the options aren't ordered enough, the project might be conveniently tabled (as I think often happens in the school food reform world, too, with healthier entrees that kids are afraid to try.)

I have spent time in school food reform at the Orfalea Foundation and have a Masters degree in Public Health from Oregon State University.

Lately I feel that I, too, am being painted with the «naysayer» brush for trying to talk frankly about funding and logistics in the school food reform arena.

Chef Ann's U.S. News Blog: Read through the archives of Ann's U.S. News & World Report blog where she examines recent events in school food reform.

Times reporter Kim Severson mentioned in passing that Chef Ann Cooper, a pioneer in school food reform, was about to launch a series of video courses to help school professionals around the country bring more scratch - cooking to their meal programs.

Now, one of the leaders in school food reform, Chef Ann Cooper, is taking the concept further.

Here in Houston, over 80 % of our students rely on free or reduced price federal school meals and it was precisely that issue of economic dependency which led to my interest in school food reform in the first place — and to the inception of this blog back in 2010.

I'm a school food blogger who is deeply sympathetic to parents and students who rely on school food, but from involvement in school food reform my own district and in talking with others who are knowledgable in the area, I» m also sympathetic to school districts operating under the National School Lunch Program.

I started The Lunch Tray back in May, 2010, shortly after I became involved in school food reform in Houston ISD.

By then I'd become involved in school food reform in Houston and had a much better understanding of how school lunch programs operate.

Back in the spring of 2010, I'd just become involved in school food reform in my children's district and was looking around for a book to help me better understand the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

About the Chef Ann FoundationFounded in 2009 by Chef Ann Cooper, a pioneer in school food reform, the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF) believes that every child should have access to fresh, healthy food every day so that they can develop healthy eating habits to last a lifetime.

* Many of us in the school food reform world have long predicted that elementary school kids would be the first to come around to healthier school food because they haven't had years of seeing junk food in their cafeterias.

When I first got involved in school food reform, I learned that many parents are often stewing in silence, deeply concerned about the state of food affairs in the classroom or the cafeteria but feeling too powerless (or just too tired) to do anything about it.

Learn directly from Chef Ann Cooper, a leader in school food reform and childhood nutrition, and from a broad range of topic experts who are featured throughout the coursework.

Since starting TLT in 2010, I've made it a tradition to post just before Thanksgiving on the topic that's at the heart of my interest in school food reform: childhood hunger.

Since I started this blog in 2010, I constantly wrestle, as a parent and as a person involved in school food reform, about the tension between what kids should be eating and what kids want to eat.

-LSB-...] Yesterday's post showing an elementary school «kitchen» the size of closet garnered favorable feedback from some in the school food reform community, who were grateful for the discussion of school kitchen infrastructure.

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(When I first got involved in school food reform, I was told dairies would never make for HISD because our district wasn't a big enough customer to justify the dairy's costs in changing formulations.)

In truth, my post was not actually pro-flavored milk, but rather took issue with Jamie Oliver's unrelenting focus on flavored milk as his pet issue of the moment, to the exclusion of other more pressing school food issues — in my opinion, and that of others involved in school food reform (see, e.g., the quote from Justin Gagnon, CEO of Choicelunch, in my post, as well as this article from San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow).