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2025

Nourishing Indigenous Foods and Foodways in Schools: School Food Solutions

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Throughout the 2024/25 school year Farm to Cafeteria Canada hosted School Food Solutions, a monthly working group hosted by Scott Hall to discuss how to build and strengthen school food programs in Indigenous communities, and how to bring more Indigenous foods and foodways into schools. These conversations took place as a part of our Nourishing Indigenous Foods and Foodways in Schools initiative.

PART 1:

For the first session on Building Your Team (October 2024), Scott highlighted the importance of having the right people rooted in relational leadership roles, such as the school food champion, principal, and superintendent.

PART 2:

In the second session, Operational Planning, Scott explained the difference between strategic and operational plans. Explaining that strategic plans are broad, high-level documents with long-term objectives (3-5 years), while operational plans are more detailed, aligned with the mission and vision, and are done yearly with budget requests.

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In Session Three, Implementation Models for School Food Programs, Scott discussed various ways to deliver school food programs. The decentralized model consists of site-specific programs, where the schools are primarily responsible. The semi-decentralized model emphasizes regional coordination with local delivery.

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