Chef Coaching

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Chef Coaching

Enhance your school meals program with a personalized 12-session initiative that pairs a JSI chef coach with your school to achieve scratch-cooking goals.

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The Chef Coaching Program is part of CECAP and is designed to advance your school meals program with the expertise and guidance of an experienced chef. This innovative and personalized 12-session program pairs a JSI chef coach with your selected school to work on specific goals towards increasing scratch-cooking. After an initial observation and discussion with the chef coach and culinary consultant from JSI, you will select a SMART goal for the 12 sessions. The chef coach returns weekly to mentor your staff based on your plan while integrating best practices for kitchen efficiencies, teamwork, and advancing culinary skills on-the-go.

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Additional Details:

  • The JSI Chef Coach will work in the same school that was identified in your CECAP survey response for the total of 12 visits (full-day sessions). 
  • Each visit will consist of a full-day with the chef at the school from 7:00am to 2:00pm, with the last 30 minutes reserved for recaps with the kitchen manager and director, and progress note-taking as required by the program. 
  • On the first day of the program, the director and school kitchen manager need to be present for an orientation to the program and discussion with the chef, as well as to select a SMART goal to focus on for the 12 sessions. 
  • In addition, before the first day of the program, staff in the selected school will be required to complete a short anonymous electronic survey as part of CECAP program requirements. (Note: If Wi-Fi is unavailable in the school kitchen, and/or staff do not have access to a smart phone, a paper copy of the survey will be made available). 
  • The total cost of the program is $9,900.  An invoice will be issued at the start of the program. 

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