Archive | February, 2012

Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools

February 29, 2012 at 9:35 pm in Advocacy, Recipes, School Lunches

Last year the Center for Ecoliteracy introduced an amazing school food guide entitled, Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools. The cookbook is available for free download (how can you resist?) on their website http://www.ecoliteracy.org/cooking-with-california-food, but I was lucky enough to get it mailed to me to review. It’s a cookbook, people. A school food cookbook [...]

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7 Things Speech Pathologists Do at School #education

February 27, 2012 at 7:00 am in School issues

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). When I decided to become a speech-language pathologist, I really had no idea that speech pathologists [...]

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#Education: Cafeteria Bullying

February 20, 2012 at 9:35 pm in School issues

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). When people ask me about my memories of eating school lunch, I reply that I rarely [...]

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Your homemade lunch sucks! Eat some nuggets!

February 15, 2012 at 9:55 pm in News, School Lunches

It’s a stock photo, but aside from the nuggets and the chocolate milk this lunch looks good to me — there’s fresh fruit and raw veggies! (photo credit) I’m sure many of you have already heard about the story of how the a child’s packed lunch was deemed “unhealthy” and the student was given a chicken [...]

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What did #NCLB really mean? #education

February 13, 2012 at 10:12 pm in School issues

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). As a school-based speech pathologist, I rely on evaluation instruments including formal assessments to guide my [...]

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Healthy, Budget-Friendly Recipes Using Food Pantry Staples

February 8, 2012 at 7:00 am in Miscellaneous, The Food

Below is the second part of a series devoted to my experience volunteering with the Greater Chicago Food Depository and its partner Feeding America. Part one can be found here: Volunteering with Feeding America: A Little Time Goes a Long Way Every food bank provides a different product mix to its member agencies. The Greater Chicago Food [...]

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#Education: Growing up with teachers as parents

February 6, 2012 at 7:00 am in Miscellaneous, School issues, Teachers

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). This week I want to examine the history of teaching as a profession. I’m a school-based [...]

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Volunteering with Feeding America: A Little Time Goes a Long Way

February 1, 2012 at 10:07 pm in Advocacy, Happening Now, Mrs Q

A couple weeks ago I was able to volunteer at the Greater Chicago Food Depository with Feeding America. You can sign up as a group or an individual for a three hour Wednesday night volunteering session and it was perfect for me. The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is one of the largest food banks [...]

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