Redwood High School
Culinary Arts & Sustainability (CTE)
Email: cbeetleyhagler@seq.org
Phone Ext: 77355, 77246
Rooms: 14 and 16
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Culinary Arts Program
- Master numerous knife skills by adding vegetables, herbs, and protein to meals
- Explore the connection between ingredients, nutrition, and human & environmental health by exploring a Farm to Table food system
- Earn your Food Handlers certificate by demonstrating how to ensure food safety in the kitchen
- Design dishes for multiple-course meals and prepare meals for large groups as a part of our seasonal banquets.
The R.E.A.L. Program
The Redwood Environmental Academy of Leadership [REAL] is a small "school-within-a-school" where students develop close relationships with their classmates, explore the environment through hands-on field trips, investigate and design solutions to real-world issues, and cook in our Culinary Arts room.
In this interdisciplinary academy, students make connections between themes in different subject areas, while earning credits in:
- Environmental Science
- Social Studies [American Government/US History]
- Career Technical Education [CTE: Foods & Nutrition/Culinary Arts]
**Students in REAL are also enrolled in the Culinary Arts Program**
In pursuit of a better understanding of humanity’s relationship with our natural environment, we travel to different outdoor education centers, including:
- Hidden Villa: Investigate the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of a working plant and animal farm.
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: analyze the impact of changing seasons and climate on native plant and animal communities.
- Stanford Farm & The HEAL Project School Farm: create a “Farm to Table” food system by planting, harvesting, cooking, and eating J
- Fitzgerald Marine Reserve: Examine billions of years of plant and animal adaptation by exploring unique tide pool ecosystems.
- Cooley Landing: evaluate the impact of current and future Sea Level Rise on our Bay Area community, and be a part of the solution through habitat restoration.
- Sims Metal Recycling & Recology: witness how “waste” can be turned into new products, and analyze the benefits to the Earth for future generations.
- Oracle Park & Ferry Building Farmers’ Market: explore the foodservice program at the San Francisco Giants’ stadium, and purchase local ingredients at the CUESA Farmers Market to use in a dish prepared back at school.
- Lucky’s supermarket: design a meal of your choice by purchasing ingredients that meet nutritional guidelines, and then preparing that meal in our classroom kitchen.
- Climate Action Projects: Participate in the youth-led movement to create a “resilient community” by taking direct action at demonstrations in the Bay Area.
R.E.A.L. (Redwood Environmental Academy of Leadership)