WOW is all I can say over and over again. I have so many questions. Does anyone know who we can contact if we have questions? My students completed a Current Events assignment and we came up with several options for better and healthier school lunches. I would love some feedback on the list of questions I have.

It's amazing. I didn't know that if we try to give healthy food, it can makes amazing result.
It is important to kids that adult try to give them more healthy food.

I am finishing up my last year to become a high school teacher and I was so impressed with how inexpensive it is to make the food exponentially healthier! One dollar and change per child to give their bodies (and brains!) the fuel they need??

I agree, Nancy. The writing is on the wall, it has been for decades, and it is obviously effective in places brave enough to just do it!
S

My name is katrina jackson and I am a kindergarten teacher with the Macon County School System in Alabama. After viewing the video, I could not believe that these children were actually eating vegtables and excited about it. However, the one thing that I truly loved was how that teacher intergrated science, math, ss, and language and centered it around cooking witch made learning fun and a memory that will last forever.

What, when and how our children eat school lunches has been a concern to many educators over the years. Visionary leadership is required for real reform across the United States, which recognizes the interrelationships between what is accepted as a well balanced lunch, sources of school lunches, funding, and teaching and learning, etc, otherwise I fear some of the initiatives described in Edutopia or by Jamie Oliver, (http://www.jamieoliver.com/school-dinners) for example, will remain the exception rather than the rule. Although providing foods that are filling to children can be a worthy consideration, nutritional value should be paramount.

Salad bars have certainly become more visible at our High Schools and universities, but there is still a lot of processed foods and foods with a lot of saturated fats in schools. When are our leaders going to connect the dots?

Nancy