Caldwell, Idaho Destination Education, 23 Apr 2022

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From YouTube: Destination Education 4/23/22

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In this week's #DestinationEducation episode, we highlight community members giving their time to support students and our hard working Child Nutrition Team.

Please email jwatts@caldwellschools.org if you have any fun and exciting news stories you think would be a good addition to this series.

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Hello and welcome back to another destination education episode where the students and staff are the stars, and this week's episode brings me here to the caldwell high school library. Recently the library was gifted up cycle benches with charging stations which were homemade by volunteers, doug, russell and james greenbanal.

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The benches are made from materials that were stored in the back room of the library and were converted into a comfortable and useful sitting area. One.

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Of my main goals is to make the area welcoming for them and have them want to come in, and so I'm always thinking about what the kids will want and what might bring more people in.

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Miss green banal says it's very meaningful when community members give their time and expertise to support our students, the library also added new lights to their comfy corner, allowing the space to feel more. Inviting and welcoming. My next story leads me to our school lunch heroes. Our child nutrition team is a vital part to the school day each day they prepare and serve meals for over 5 500 students across the 10 schools in our district.

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They are also tasked with following detailed nutrition standards: strict food safety requirements all while balancing the needs of students such as food allergies, special dietary restrictions and tastes and preferences, food.

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Shortages have been a common occurrence, so if you go to the grocery store, just imagine that times 10 for food service, because we have over 5 600 kids, we have to feed. So everything is just amplified and what's interesting about child nutrition. Is that we're playing you know eight months to a year in advance because we have everything planned the year prior, what we're going to serve? So, if we're shorted hot dogs that day that not only impacts us that day, but it impacts everything else that we plan for the menu.

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So we've really had to be flexible and adaptive and creative in ways that we're going to service our students and provide meals that they're going to like. So our staff have been wonderful and they've, been really great to pivot and adjust as needed and they're all well versed in child nutrition. So they've been able to. You know, change their menu on a short notice and they're really great about it and they're able to just pick up right where they left off, like nothing ever happened.

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Our kitchen staff proudly known as lunch ladies, are building lasting relationships with their students they serve, which is evident by the excitement and joy in both the students and staff's faces. Thank you for serving the students of the caldwell school district and, lastly, make sure to mark your calendars. For friday april, 29th seringa middle school will be hosting their seventh annual stem fair from 5 30 to 7 p.m.

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In the gymnasium science, fair projects will be on display, so friends and families of all ages are invited to attend now make sure to tune in next week to see where the highlights will take me. Thank you for watching and have a great week.