Schools, Food and CommunityApril 11-12, 2008
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Book Announcement: The School Food Revolution (416 KB pdf)
authored by Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino
Published in September, 2008: Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development. Includes summary, order form and discount.
Empowering consumers: the creative procurement of school meals in Italy and the UK (128 KB pdf)
Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino
Today is not the era of the big state, but a strategic one: empowering, enabling, putting decision-making in the hands of people, not government.
Farm to School Policy and Practice (80 KB pdf)
Prepared by students in Food Policy at The New School
Farm to School programs connect schools with local farms. The programs provide children with nutritious meals in cafeterias, nutrition and agriculture education in the classroom and on farms, while supporting local farmers.
Greening our Event (24 KB pdf)
Kristen Mancinelli, Schools, Food and Community Conference Planning Team
How the planning team "greened" the Schools, Food and Community conference.
School Wellness Policy and Practice (92 KB pdf)
Prepared by students in Food Policy at The New School
In the 2004 reauthorization, the U.S. Congress established a new requirement that all school districts with a federally funded school meals program develop and implement wellness policies that address nutrition and physical activity by the start of the 2006-2007 school year (Section 204). Resources and tools.
School Gardens Policy and Practice (64 KB pdf)
Prepared by students in Food Policy at The New School
Schools gardens are becoming increasingly important to educators and communities because they can achieve many objectives.
What's in School Lunches Brought from Home? A Photo Essay (3.1 MB pdf)
SchoolFood Plus Evaluation: Market Ventures, Inc.; Karp Resources; Center for Health & Publinc Service Research, New York University
As part of the SchoolFood Plus Initiative, researchers visited nine different elementary schools around New York City and took digital photographs of the lunch trays of nearly 1,300 second and fifth graders.
Evaluation Methods for School-Based Health/Wellness Programs (488 KB ppt)
Scott Burg and Frances Montellbaum, Ph. D., Rockman ET AL
Friday's presentation
Havenscourt Middle School Salad Bar Evaluation Study (272 KB ppt)
Scott Burg and Frances Montellbaum, Ph. D., Rockman ET AL
Saturday's presentation
SchoolFood Partnerships: Making the Connection (1.9 MB ppt)
Stephen O'Brien, Manhattan Regional Director, SchoolFood
An introductin to the SchoolFood program
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