Want to give students something to look forward to? Feed them something good.
Today was Fall Festival at North High, which translates to clubs on the quad at lunch, with a myriad of foods on display for all to enjoy. And pay for. If you didn’t know, or haven’t been reading my posts, our students don’t eat. They have the prospect of almost-free food, if they claim it, but they choose not to. Today, they chose to pay over ten dollars for a variety of items.
North High clubs brought Korean bbq, In-n-Out, lumpia, Hawaiian chicken, bacon fried rice, pozole, fry bread, manapua, Spam musubi, and so on. I repped TED-Ed Club and was less than creative–we sold donuts. 80 of them. Gone. Yes, to 30 bucks going into our account.
It’s so funny to watch students the day previous with their phones, taking pictures of the menus for today’s cuisine. The food’s not even that great, it’s a bit overpriced, but kids chomp at the bit to get out to that quad for the food frenzy.
To me, that’s DATA. Remember data? I keep hearing how we’re going to be looking at it, but all I remember looking at this year was our Smarter Balanced data in math and English which only applied to last year’s juniors, and was glossed over quickly during a before-school-started meeting. There’s so much more out there, and today added even more, albeit food data.
Look–at Stover High School, good food would translate to better students. Dip Day was already a “win” for APN, and Fall Festival seals the deal. So, grab a non-plastic utensil, an actual plate, and bring on the fixings. After a home-cooked meal, maybe an extended time period for lunch, perhaps some music in the background . . . who wouldn’t want to power through some data?