Cooking together again!

It has been a long time!  But we have some exciting news to share as we get deeper into fall and winter: We are able to cook together again while at John O’Connell’s campus! This is a hybrid version of our regular class(3 days a week we travel down to the kitchen classroom), but being […]

Ida B Wells at JOC week 3

I’m not sure who painted this, but it is my favorite rendition of Ida B. Wells.  Someone was smart enough to bring our Ida B. Wells posters and this painting here to John O’Connell High School, to decorate our hallways. Here in week 3, we are still getting used to things. Two schools in one […]

Planitudes on moving

I’ve spent the last few months preparing to move out of Ida B.Wells worrying about how to teach a culinary arts class without cooking.  “Well, it’s not really a culinary arts class,” I’ve always told people. It is a work simulation class using culinary as a theme.  Um, and that culinary part?  It is a […]