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Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools |
Our acclaimed cookbook, resource for menu planning, professional development guide co-written by award-winning cookbook authors Georgeanne Brennan and Ann M. Evans. |
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Rethinking School Lunch Guide |
A planning framework for improving school food, supporting sustainable food systems, and teaching and integrating curriculum around food issues. |
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School-Community Kitchens |
School-community kitchens are a new partnership for supporting health, academic achievement, and community vitality. |
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Rethinking School Lunch Oakland Feasibility Study |
Read the 27-page executive summary of a feasibility study for comprehensive reform of nutrition services in one school district. |
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School Lunch Initiative Evaluation |
Results of a three-year study about one of the most comprehensive school food reform efforts in the nation. |
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Algae Bloom and Bust |
Students conduct an experiment to examine possible impacts on ecosystems of climate change and nutrients added by human activity. |
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What Is a Green School? |
This succinct summary is based on twenty years' experience. A Smart by Nature™ downloadable resource. |
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Jobs in a Biotic Community |
Students learn about interdependence by taking a census of an outdoor site and identifying the different “jobs” of members of the biotic community. |
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Food Traditions Interview |
Students interview an elder or someone from another culture to learn about foods in different times or places. |
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Creating Gardens of Goodness |
A downloadable 66-page booklet with detailed advice for designing, creating, and maintaining five types of educational gardens. |
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Are California Kids Eating California Food? |
The bounty of California agriculture is immense, but many leading California crops are not reaching the state's students. |
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Living Systems and Leadership: Cultivating Conditions for Institutional Change |
Explore the application of Living Systems Theory to institutional and societal change, as seen especially in Center's food systems work. |
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Los Angeles Unified School District: A New System for Purchasing Food for School Meals |
A radical redesign of school food procurement to improve meals while saving money and supporting regional agriculture. |
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Nourish Companion Guides |
The Nourish video and companion guides help us to pay attention to the stories behind every bite of food we take. |
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Make a Mini Greenhouse from a CD Case |
Use a recycled CD case to make a mini greenhouse and observe seedlings as they develop. A Smart by Nature™ downloadable resource. |
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Needs and Wants Activity |
Distinguish between things needed to live a healthy life and things that would be merely nice to have. A Smart by Nature™ downloadable resource. |
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Building Resilience at Home |
A class exercise that explores the question, "What does 'resilience' mean at the personal, social, and ecological levels?" |
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Food, Inc. Discussion Guide |
A discussion guide for use in high school classrooms to accompany the Academy Award nominee - now in Spanish and English. |
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Getting Started |
A 51-page guide for creating school gardens as outdoor classrooms. |
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RSL Wellness Policy |
A Model Wellness Policy Guide to help you review, revise, and update your local wellness policy. |
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Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment |
Explore an enriched school environment through this visual guide. |
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The Last Mountain |
A discussion guide to the compelling documentary, for use in classrooms and communities. |
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Ecological Intelligence Teacher's Guide |
A guide to Daniel Goleman's Ecological Intelligence: The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy, for high school and undergraduate courses. |
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Excerpt from Post Carbon Reader |
How educators, parents, and students are remaking K–12 education for the 21st century. |
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RSL Financial Calculator |
An interactive financial spreadsheet for food service professionals. |
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School Lunch Survey |
In this solution-oriented lesson, students conduct a school lunch survey to gather ideas and then present recommendations for improving their school district's lunch offerings. |
