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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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Download 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...

Essay School Food, Public Policy, and Strategies for Change

Decisions about school food are about balancing the interests of corporations and those of advocates for children's health.

Download RSL Wellness Policy

A Model Wellness Policy Guide to help you review, revise, and update your local wellness policy.

Download Rethinking School Lunch Guide

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

Essay Penny-wise and Pounds Foolish

The success of school meals should be measured by the health of children and the planet, not by bodies served at lowest cost.

Blog Oakland Takes on Inequity through School Food

The Center for Ecoliteracy receives grants totaling $200,000 to work with Oakland schools.

Download 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.

Blog Just Say No to Drugs ... at Lunch

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

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?

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.

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