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Change Your School Food

Out of more than a decade of work with school food systems, the Center for Ecoliteracy has developed a planning framework, "Rethinking School Lunch," which identifies ten aspects of school operations that relate to food change—ten pathways that allow you to begin the change process from a place that fits your resources, interests, and opportunities.

Our downloadable RSL Guide presents the case for rethinking school food along with ideas and recommendations for using this planning framework. The Center also offers a variety of other resources, including books, curriculum guides, essays, and downloadable tools, as well as seminars, consultations and presentations based on the Rethinking School Lunch framework.

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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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A planning framework for improving school food, supporting sustainable food systems, and teaching and integrating curriculum around food issues.

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California Food for California Kids

An initiative with ideas, models, and resources focused on California that can be adapted anywhere.

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Essay A New Agenda for School Food

Children's health has never been the central goal of school food programs. We need a new paradigm.

Essay A New Era for Nutrition Education

It is time for a new philosophy of nutrition education that informs our children about their personal health and the future of our planet.

Essay A Slice of Life

Experiential learning is an effective strategy for the worldwide crisis of nutrition-related health problems.

Download 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.

Essay California Food for California Kids

An initiative with ideas, models, and resources focused on California that can be adapted anywhere.

Blog Cooking with California Food Conference

We presented our latest resources and strategies for fresh, local, healthy school meals at an August, 2011 conference.

Download 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.

Essay Entertaining, Movable, and Alive: The School Menu in Clovis, California

Winning lunches with an ethnic twist are inspired by CEL's Cooking with California Food in K–12 Schools.

Blog How Much Food Will a Dollar Buy?

Schools have about a dollar to spend on the food in each lunch. What will that buy?

Blog Just Say No to Drugs ... at Lunch

Nice package. But what's really inside that milk carton?

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