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Students at Nathanael Greene Elementary School will have a special guest on Thursday, April 11. U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, M.D., will visit Nathanael Greene and meet with teachers, parents and local education organizations, including Healthy Schools Campaign, the Kitchen [Community], Common Threads, Urban Initiatives and Openlands.
Health in Mind, a new report from Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America’s Health, details immediate solutions that can help close the achievement gap and create a healthy future for all children.
Student chefs, celebrity judges and hundreds of hungry guests will gather for Healthy Schools Campaign’s Cooking up Change 2012, a sizzling cooking competition aimed at transforming the future of school food.
Healthy Schools Campaign is pleased to announce the release of the updated fourth edition of the highly-regarded Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning in Schools and recognize the team whose support has made the impact of this guide and the related Green Clean Schools initiative so significant.
Chicago Public Schools and Healthy Schools Campaign are pleased to announce that 37 CPS schools will be recognized this year for meeting high standards for student health and wellness.
Healthy Schools Campaign and Trust for America’s Health today released actionable policy recommendations focused on supporting schools in addressing health and wellness in order to improve student learning and achievement. The recommendations were presented to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.
Ellen Richard Career Academy High School took the top prize at last week’s Cooking up Change healthy lunch contest with a menu of Afro-Caribe plancha, vegetable “Soup of Sunshine” and Caribbean citrus crunch relish.
Healthy Schools Campaign is excited to announce Through Your Lens, a photo exhibit highlighting what’s great and what’s troubling about our nation’s public school facilities.
When Karen Duncan was growing up in Australia, her lunch was a Vegemite sandwich brought from home. Today, as the wife of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, she’s heading an effort to spice up—and add nutrition to—the menu for American schoolchildren.
She’s had a few lessons to learn along the way.
“In Australia, schools don’t provide lunches, so the whole school-lunch concept was new to me in some respects,” Duncan said.
But when she came to the U.S. and started teaching physical education, she realized the connection between a healthy lunch and a healthy mind.
Students from Valley High School discuss Cooking up Change with anchors and demonstrate one of their recipes.
Chronicling Surgeon General Regina Benjamin’s visit to Greene Elementary School in Chicago.
Students from Valley High School discuss Cooking up Change with anchors and demonstrate one of their recipes.
Student chefs from Beaumont High School and Clyde C. Miller Career Academy competed today for a place in the national school cooking competition Cooking Up Change.
HSC’s Lindsay Eanet and Sara Porter discuss the St. Louis regional Cooking up Change competition for this alt-weekly’s food section.
Mark Bishop, Vice President of Policy and Communications at the Healthy Schools Campaign, explains how the non-profit organization can make a difference, helping students to feel safe, proud of their schools and invested in their education by making schools a healthier environment.
Kid Healthy and Northgate Gonzalez Markets present Cooking up Change -a healthy cooking contest. Students from Santa Ana Valley, High School Inc. culinary arts program compete to create a nutritious, great-tasting school lunch. This is a culinary competition and celebration of student talent.
