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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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Type Title Description
Essay A Delicious Revolution

Learning to make right choices about food is the most important key to environmental awareness.

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.

Essay A Slice of Life

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

Essay Sodas in Schools: A Sticky Situation

School beverage policies should address obesity, tooth decay, and low-nutrient drinks' contributions to chronic illness.

Blog Thou Shalt Not Spork!

How New Orleans students said "no" to quirky cutlery, and "yes" to school lunch reform.

Blog Should Anti-Obesity Campaigns Learn from McDonald's?

Marketing of fast food to kids is relentless, joyous – and almost irresistible. How shall we counter it?

Blog When Kids Get Good School Food — for a Day

Oakland celebrates National School Lunch Week with one "Ideal Meal."

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 Cooking with California Food Conference

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

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...

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