Davenport Community School District

Serving alongside a nutrition educator with Davenport's Community School District, the FoodCorps service member is teaching Pick a Better Snack and Act lessons in eleven different elementary schools, to all first grade classes. In total, the Pick a Better Snack program in Davenport reaches approximately 2,400 kids every month, in kindergarten, first grade, and third grade. In addition to nutrition lessons, the FoodCorps service member helps to build garden projects within the school district and increase access to local, healthy food in the cafeteria.