[BHS etree] SUPT: School Lunch Initiative Forum - Dec 6

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Contact: Mark Coplan, mailto:publicinfo at berkeley.k12.ca.us

As part of a series of public forums on "Designing and Funding
Quality Schools," The Berkeley Public Education Foundation and the
Berkeley Unified School District are cosponsoring:

Ann Cooper
BUSD Director of Nutrition Services, Chef - Educator - Author
The School Lunch Initiative
TUESDAY, DEC. 6th at 7:00 pm 
Malcolm X School, 1731 Prince Street (One block South of Ashby
Avenue)

What Is the School Lunch Initiative?

The School Lunch Initiative envisions revolutionizing school lunch by
making food a central part of the academic curriculum. The Initiative
includes gardens, kitchen classrooms, and lunchrooms as contexts for
learning. It restores connections between what children are taught
and what they experience, between nutrition, health, and the ability
to learn, between local communities and the farms that feed them.

The Initiative is being implemented through the School Lunch
Initiative at Berkeley, a project begun in 2004 to design and
implement curriculum and food service innovations in a public school
setting. This project is a partnership of the Berkeley Unified School
District and the Chez Panisse Foundation, in collaboration with the
Center for Ecoliteracy and Children's Hospital Oakland Research
Institute.

Ann Cooper, CEC, is the former Executive Chef and Director of
Wellness and Nutrition of The Ross School in East Hampton, New York,
where she cultivated an innovative food service program serving over
1300 regional, organic, seasonal and sustainable meals each day. Ann
has authored many books including Bitter Harvest: A Chef's
Perspective on the Hidden Dangers in the Foods We Eat and What You
Can do About It, and the forthcoming, Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way
America Feeds its Children.

To learn more about the School Lunch Initiative go to:
www.schoollunchinitiative.org To learn more about Ann Cooper go her
website: http://www.chefann.com/   

BUSD Office of Public Information  510.644.6320
mailto:publicinfo at berkeley.k12.ca.us