FROM THE BLOG
with Dr. Katie Wilson, SNS
Convictions & Courage in School Meals
Greetings from the beautiful Coulees of Wisconsin! Coulees are large valleys, surrounded by beautiful wooded bluffs along the Mississippi River. These valleys were formed when large glaciers cut through Wisconsin. It seems like the
And just what does that hat of courage look like? I have seen it over the past two years as districts have had to take it day by day to figure out what and how to feed children in their community and they never gave up. I also saw it in the
face of school nutrition professionals that risked their own health to serve their communities in every type of weather and condition. These displays of courage represent a determination like no other. We will need such courage to support school nutrition programs now and in the years ahead. School nutrition programs are at a tipping point where many things must change to ensure their future. Let’s not accept the
summer just started and yet we are looking at the 2022-2023 school year.
I can’t believe it is time to start another school year. After finally seeing a Congressional Bill move through the partisan system we have as our government, the USDA has worked hard to find as many ways possible to find flexibilities and I feel ready to face the new challenges that lie ahead. I hope you do, too, because I believe that 2022-2023 will require many of us to add a new cap to the many we wear each day on the job: the hat of courage.
status quo; instead, let’s band together and learn new processes, doing what is in the best interest
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