Tuesday and Wednesday, November 6-7, 2007
Fee: $300 for tuition, breakfasts, and lunches
Seminar runs from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm each day.
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Faculty: Janet Brown with leading practitioners in school food service reform and curriculum innovation

Location: Center for Ecoliteracy, 2528 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, California

"The Rethinking School Lunch planning framework supports a powerful vision: school lunch as part of an integrated curriculum that restores connections of meals to culture, learning to meaningful engagement, farms to communities, and health to our children and the environment."
— Janet Brown

The Center for Ecoliteracy presents an informative and practical two-day seminar based on the framework presented in CEL's popular online Rethinking School Lunch (RSL) guide. The RSL farm-to-school model of food service and curriculum innovation places nutritious school meals at the very center of the learning experience, forging a closer relationship between public education and public health.

Rethinking School Lunch recognizes important connections between children's health, learning potential, classroom study, and hands-on experiences in school gardens, kitchen classrooms, and cafeterias. It incorporates 10 interrelated dimensions in a comprehensive approach to integrating curriculum and food service design:

The seminar is structured to allow maximum interaction with the seminar faculty, who are experienced in aspects of food system reform from agriculture to nutrition education, procurement, facilities, and policy. In order to address participants' needs for practical answers and workable solutions, CEL will convene a roundtable of innovators in school food service during the seminar — an opportunity to hear and share the inspiration, knowledge, practices, and skills of some of the most forward-thinking and successful leaders in reinventing school food service.

This seminar includes a site visit to the acclaimed Edible Schoolyard garden and kitchen program at Martin Luther King Middle School. The Edible Schoolyard is part of the School Lunch Initiative at Berkeley, a collaboration of the Center for Ecoliteracy, the Chez Panisse Foundation, and the Berkeley Unified School District to design and implement curriculum and food service reformation in a public school setting.

Fees include:

• Breakfast and lunch each day
• A copy of the Sierra Club book about the ideas and work of CEL, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
• A copy of Getting Started, A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms

Meals are prepared from organic, seasonal ingredients, with vegetarian options provided.