Fellowship Seeks Next Cohort of School Food Changemakers
August 28, 2023 | By
The Healthy School Food Pathway Fellowship empowers school food operators to run successful scratch-cook operations that benefit students, staff, and the environment.
What does the Fellowship entail?
The Fellowship is an intensive 55-week program designed for school food operators to complete alongside their full-time work, offering them the opportunity to apply their new learnings for the benefit of their own school district. The Fellowship provides rich experiences that cultivate learning, skills development, and networking, including:
Weekly virtual live learning sessions with experts across 11 content areas;
Asynchronous online learning about school food and the food system, including five School Food Institute courses of each Fellow’s choosing;
Two four-day site visits to exemplary districts;
Two on-site learning experiences with the Culinary Institute of Child Nutrition;
Small-group policy project researching and presenting a policy topic of the group’s choosing;
Individual implementation-based capstone project with coaching and support from CAF and content leads;
In-person capstone presentations and closing celebration;
And ongoing alumni engagement.
What does the Fellowship entail?
The Fellowship is an intensive 55-week program designed for school food operators to complete alongside their full-time work, offering them the opportunity to apply their new learnings for the benefit of their own school district. The Fellowship provides rich experiences that cultivate learning, skills development, and networking, including:
Weekly virtual live learning sessions with experts across 11 content areas;
Asynchronous online learning about school food and the food system, including five School Food Institute courses of each Fellow’s choosing;
Two four-day site visits to exemplary districts;
Two on-site learning experiences with the Culinary Institute of Child Nutrition;
Small-group policy project researching and presenting a policy topic of the group’s choosing;
Individual implementation-based capstone project with coaching and support from CAF and content leads;
In-person capstone presentations and closing celebration;
And ongoing alumni engagement.
“Although I have extensive experience in traditional food service, I am still relatively new to school food. Joining the Fellowship group was a great way for me to accelerate my knowledge base in a short period of time.” - Nick Dramis, Supervisor of Culinary Operations - Marysville Joint Unified School District (California)
“Although I have extensive experience in traditional food service, I am still relatively new to school food. Joining the Fellowship group was a great way for me to accelerate my knowledge base in a short period of time.” - Nick Dramis, Supervisor of Culinary Operations - Marysville Joint Unified School District (California)
In order for this transformation to be possible, though, the field needs a deep and diverse bench of leaders who can inspire, drive, and sustain positive change. The Fellowship aims to empower school food operators to do exactly that. At no expense to individual participants or districts, Fellows are provided with the training, education, resources, and professional network to foster the leadership skills needed to operate successful scratch-cook meal programs.
In order for this transformation to be possible, though, the field needs a deep and diverse bench of leaders who can inspire, drive, and sustain positive change. The Fellowship aims to empower school food operators to do exactly that. At no expense to individual participants or districts, Fellows are provided with the training, education, resources, and professional network to foster the leadership skills needed to operate successful scratch-cook meal programs.
