FACS teacher friends, this commercial was made for us! I don't know about you, but I have seen my kids do everything in this video (well...

After every cooking lab I have always thought to myself "Next time I need to remember/change/etc." Usually I even jotted reminders...

A couple weeks ago I wrote about a few of my first year mistakes , #1 being that I assumed my students knew more than they did. Flipping thr...

Here's another tip from the department of the obvious, yet took me a while to figure out that I actually needed to implement this proced...

Piggy-backing on earlier posts about organizing your ingredients table and making egg cartons more manageable , here's a tip for milk: ...

So if you'll remember all the way back to August , when I arrived to begin arranging my new classroom the stand mixers looked like this:...

You know the kids who loudly declare "Ugh, nasty!" every time they see a generic-brand-whatever on the ingredient table? Yeah, tha...

Another colorful addition to the kitchens: transparent pockets for lab plans! These are "Write and Wipe Pockets...

So we all know that a key component of a successful cooking lab is to get kids to and from the center ingredient table quickly - hence the e...

I'm frequently asked where I find all of my color-coded kitchen equipment, and the simple answer is this: EVERYWHERE! WalMart, Target, D...

One common workplace item that I frequent scavenge are the box lids to the copy paper. They truly come in handy for SO many things! Here i...

I don't know about you, but I think this semester just flashed by! Finals are next week already!  Egg cartons can take up a lot of spa...

A year and a half ago or so I posted about a job wheel I created to assign miscellaneous tasks that need to be completed after each cooking...

Over the summer I posted about trying out pie bags , and today was my first opportunity to see them in action in the classroom. Epic success...

Okay, I get that this is becoming borderline psychotic, but here's my latest classroom kitchen upgrade: And now for the close-ups: ...

So I've been putting a lot of time into deep-cleaning my new kitchens (again), and I thought I'd share a few insights. Yesterday I p...

The last time I worked at my new school, I used grant money to purchase brand new KitchenAid stand mixers for all of the kitchens (did the s...

A little advice for people teaching Foods for the first time. Whenever you have a new package, carton, box, bag, jar, etc that you will be u...

Pies. I love 'em. I love getting to teach pie-making in foods class - if there's anything 'retro' about Family & Consume...

One of my pet peeves is when measuring cups and spoons are thrown pell-mell into a drawer; it's messy and it takes the kids about ten ti...