Chefs Move to Schools - Success Stories

Success Story Highlights

Highlights feature successful chef and school partner stories from around the country. Do you have a success story to share? Submit your story and it may be published on the Chefs Move to Schools site! Each month four partnership stories are selected from chef and school submissions and featured in this highlight section. Contact us to submit your story.

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Healthy pizza camp teaches students about local foods through a Chefs Move to Schools Grant

The Health, Wellness & Environmental Studies Magnet School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, a Chefs Move to Schools 2012 grant recipient, recently hosted a two-day hands-on Pizza Camp.

Daycare gets a head start on nutrition education by partnering with a chef

Trinity Daycare made the move and got a head start promoting healthy eating to their students by partnering with a chef through the Chefs Move to Schools website. Located in Rockford, Ill., the daycare signed up for the program and found a local chef and business owner

Georgia teachers dig into Farm to School resources with a little help from a chef

Recently over 150 attendees enjoyed the “How Does Your Garden Grow?” a learning garden workshop that took place at Ford Elementary School in Cobb County, Ga.

NYC Wellness in the Schools program and chefs work together to feed victims of Hurricane Sandy

On Veteran's Day chefs and team members from Wellness in the Schools (WITS), a NYC-based non-profit focused on fighting childhood obesity through healthy food and fitness programming in public schools, partnered with Chefs Move to Schools volunteers to create an early Thanksgiving for hundreds of Staten Island residents affected by Hurricane Sandy.