What’s Right With Our Schools: Battle Academy Students at Honey Seed
CHATTANOOGA, TN (WDEF) – Cooking Up Learning is a program at Battle Academy that teams students up with community partners for lessons in real world readiness. The kids recently paid a visit to Honey Seed for a tasty example of what’s right with our schools.
Tarah Kemp is the Culinary Integration Specialist at Battle Academy.
She remembers, “Robert from Honey Seed came over to talk with our students. It was a way to introduce the model of how to run a business and that entrepreneurial mindset for the fourth grade students.
Kemp continues,”So, it was a way to really understand the foundation of how to start a business; what they would need, what to think about, as they start to develop their own concept for a food truck to expand Honey Seed. As they start to think about the new creation, to really step up their, you know, creative thinking and critical thinking game that we expect in the real life.
According to Kemp, “The biggest thing is creating that realism. We don’t want them to just see these problems as a word problem on a page. We want them to actually be able to see it in action. So, today here we are at Honey Seed, we are specifically working in this location because, they not only get a chance to work in the real-life space that a functioning business would have, but it’s also to apply all of the creative thought process that they were expected in the design thinking skills that we had in our culinary lab. So, they have taken the time to develop their own bagel flavors, as they are going to develop their own cream cheese flavors within a chopped challenge competition. In order to focus on the four C’s: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication.”
4th grader Drekell Yates chips in, “I learned how to like roll the dough, down on the bagels, and how to make the bagels, wrap it around.”
Ms. Kemp concludes, “Cooking Up Learning is the program that we, I’ve started, and it really has the foundation of bringing Community Partners into the building, and also coming into the space that they are in as well, and we could not do it without community partners. It is heavily reliant on their expertise, what they know, to run a successful business and their skill sets and how we can apply that into our educational system, and how as educators that we can merge those two together, because nothing is mutually exclusive anymore. In order to prepare our kids for the real-world readiness that we are expecting in our Hamilton County. We want to give them those opportunities and exposure as often as possible.”
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