KP Education News and Updates

 Next Week Culinary Town Hall #8 and TH#7 write-up What a rollercoaster ride it has been for the start of the 2020 school year.   We have been faced with new challenges but collectively we have solutions. Here is the recording from last week’s meeting where you all shared your challenges and creative ideas to overcome the limitations of Online and Hybrid learning while maintaining rigor and engagement. https://youtu.be/R3F9Q6RkuhU Debbie Bates shared many items she uses to help with Knife Skills without the ability to use knives or products.   Here’s a LINK to what she shared. https://kpcurriculum.blogspot.com/2020/09/debbie-bates-sharing-her-knife-skills.html All resources and previous meeting are located here in one spot and updated every meeting. https://kpcurriculum.blogspot.com/2020/09/culinary-teacher-town-hall-resources.html The next Town Hall will be September 30.   We are having this every 2 weeks at the same time every Wednesday.   I’m ...

Here's the items mentioned by Debbie Bates during Town Hall #7.  Thank you Debbie for sharing. Nai, Great meeting as usual.  My recipe is at school will send tomorrow.  Here are the products we talked about.   Debbie Best $1.50 you will spend on Teacherspayteachers  I love this for teaching knife skills.  I have a tight budget and the cut dough plus the template placemat was great.  I laminated the placemat and it works great with the cut dough or it makes grading with actual vegetables in skills lab very easy . Amazon Using these knives with cut dough to send home for students to practice.   I ordered these for my Baking and Pastry Class Seniors.  It is a good beginning set.  The quality for the price of everything you get was decent.    I also ordered them a wilton practice board.  Each year we are given money from student fees that have to been spent on them individually so this is what I ordered for my s...

Town Hall #6 Recording IS HERE!  Watch it now and witness the horror stories. https://youtu.be/NTAemblZu6c Here’s the Chat Log https://kpcurriculum.blogspot.com/2020/09/culinary-teacher-town-hall-resources.html During the hour long meeting teachers from all over the country shared the hoops they are being made to jump through while teaching online/hybrid or in person.  What’s shocking to me is the stance California took to not mandate cameras on in meetings so it’s impossible to take attendance.  Other teacher were told that day “No Cutting” so no knife skills and many no cooking, while others were given free rein to teach however they want.  It’s all over the board here.  We are looking forward to our next meeting in 2 weeks to discover how these teachers overcame the limitations. Don’t’ forget to ask for a Certificate of Participation T here were many links shared during the session in Chat which you can view HERE . Here are a few links mentioned...

Valerie Fry-Ramirez was nice enough to offer her help to any teacher wanting to use ZOOM or TEAMS more effectively.  Here's her message. Hi Everyone,   I created a Google Drive and uploaded the documents I created. I hope this helps. Please feel free to give me feedback. Constructive criticism is welcome. I would like to make this as helpful as possible.   https://drive.google.com/ drive/folders/ 1TtQ6gBE27N2EBQD6b4impFUSJYDOV IRE?usp=sharing   Sincerely,   Valerie Fry-Ramirez Business Liaison, Career Technical Education Center (CTEC) 3501 Portland Rd NE, Salem, OR, 97301 Salem Area Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Salem-Keizer School District Cell Phone: 971-240-3845 valerie@salemchamber.org  

This post will be updated weekly with resources from our Town Hall meetings.   Sharing Ideas in one Document of Best Practices https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e6LHGAxy5Jxw_bHCJQgAURG3ooIvExueayK5KflVcgo/edit?usp=sharing This document contains dozens of tidbits of helpful ideas shared by you.  If you have an idea, please contribute your success stories! Sharing Forms From Teachers Teachers have created forms and are sharing them.  Why recreate a form when someone else has.  Here's some forms shared and please upload your own. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NvjdToNAHPehqacVlz9754Vrg2ZGcPg6?usp=sharing Teacher Community Creating Free Lessons Using Bitmoji! Teachers from all over the country are creating and sharing lessons in this GROUP !  Join, use and share your own creations! Using Video Games to build a motivation profile for your students. I use a video games to build learner profiles.  There is a site that students take a survey and it ...