• "The Sickness in Our Food Supply" by Michael Pollan
• "Dancing With Systems" by Donella Meadows

• "The Farm Bill Drove Me Insane" by Marion Nestle
• "USDA’s case studies on front-of-package labeling" by Marion Nestle

• Marketing Exposed: A Global Public Health Threat for Food Policy

• COVID-19 and the crisis in food systems: Symptoms, causes, and potential solutions
• Food Ethics: a Wide Field in Need of Dialogue

• "The Pleasures of Eating", by Wendell Berry
• "The Food System was Designed to Fail" from the Food x Design podcast

In this session, Edible Schoolyard Project founder Alice Waters, founding Edible Schoolyard principal Neil Smith, and Senior Chef Teacher Esther Cook  share stories from the beginning of the Edible Schoolyard program and offer their vision for the future of edible education.

Establishing community partners is one of the keys to creating a dynamic community program. This session explores ways to create programming with community partners whose mission and goals align with yours. Participants learn tips and strategies for how to choose the right partners and build a stronger, more unified community.

• View the slide deck here.
• Learn more about Edible Schoolyard Stockton here.

In this session, participants learn approaches and strategies for involving families in edible education. Chef teachers Griselda Cooney and Patricia Mok share an overview of ESYP's family engagement programming and provide a cooking class demonstration based on our Family Nights Out events.

• View the slide deck here.
• View the fried rice lesson and recipe here.
• View the padlet here.
• View the knife safety lesson here.
• View the Family Nights In Digital Cookbook here.

While applying the lifelong learning skill of reflection, participants will contemplate the undeniable power of food to indelibly connect us to a person, place, or time. This session, led by Senior Chef Teacher Esther Cook, is for anyone interested in examining the role food plays in their life.

• View the Food Memories lesson plan here.

This session explores a new resource titled Student Engagement in Edible Education: A Workbook for Teachers. In this training, participants learn about the three pillars of student engagement and explore resources from the workbook.

• View the slide deck here.
• View the Student Engagement Workbook.
• View the student engagement scenario padlet here.