Culinary Teacher Town Hall #6: Back to School Stories and Challenges



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

There were many links shared during the session in Chat which you can view HERE.

Here are a few links mentioned that are great.

Lisa showed us plastic knives which can be used and are childproof.  You can buy it here.

https://www.amazon.com/StarPack-Nylon-Kitchen-Knife-Piece/dp/B0162AI724

LEADFCS was shared with their COVID Response

http://www.leadfcsed.org/covidfcs.html

Valerie offered to help teachers with ZOOM and TEAMS and supplied her contact information and link to documents HERE 

Culinary Teacher Town Hall #7: More Stories from the Field, share your challenges.

September 16, 3 PDT, 4 MDT, 5, CDT, 6 EDT

Continuing our talks on teachers facing new challenges while coming back to school, we share and we come up with ideas and solutions as a group.  Together we are stronger.

REMIND.com: Get your TXT on!

E-mail has been unreliable and many have told me they aren’t getting them so I’m setting up the txt service you are all familiar with, Remind (101).  Don’t miss the next meeting.  This is an opt in service and will ONLY be used to let you know when the next meeting is, the topic and the day of link.  A max of 2 messages will be sent per meeting to minimize SPAM.  I hate SPAM too!

Sign up with the link or text @culmeet to the number 81010

https://www.remind.com/join/culmeet

Or you can sign up using FORMS and hope the email gets through.

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or Eventbrite

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Previous meetings, chat logs and other resources and links mentioned on the meeting.

https://kpcurriculum.blogspot.com/2020/09/culinary-teacher-town-hall-resources.html

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