This coming June, CAFÉ, the Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education, will again present the CAFÉ Leadership Conference with an exciting program focusing on both best practices in education and best practices in the industry. This year, we are celebrating our tenth anniversary of the CAFÉ Leadership Conference, and we are writing to invite you to submit a proposal for a workshop, lecture, or round table discussion for the Friday sessions on Best Practices in Education. The Leadership Conference will take place June 19 to June 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and you can make a contribution by sharing something special you are doing in education.
Last year, there were a range of interesting Best Practices in Education programs, including
- Demonstration Dilemma: How to Take Your Demonstrations to the Next Level
- How to Create an Edible Garden
- Guiding Followership and Team Dynamics in the Classroom
- Using Blog Platforms to Create Student Electronic Portfolios
- What Good is Sitting Alone in your Room: Teaching the Why and How of Real Networking
- You can Lead Students to the Classroom, but can You Make them Think?
- Food Styling/ Presentation and Technology with a Modern Twist
- The Professional Project: Results from One Year of Teaching and Measuring Learning
- Transfer of Technical Skills
- How Establishing a Food Academy in Secondary Institutions can Benefit Postsecondary Schools
This year, we are looking for your ideas about presentations and inviting you to consider making a proposal to present some new teaching strategy, new thoughts about curriculum, new practices using social media, and new ways to develop critical thinking, new teaching ideas for developing creativity, and new menu teaching practice. Do not feel limited to these topics; please suggest ones that you are excited about and want to share with your colleagues. If you have an idea or a proposal, please send it to me at Mayoconsulting@aol.com or Frederic.b.mayo@gmail.com by the first week in November. The Committee will review your proposal and get back to you in late November so that you have plenty of time to plan.
Each proposal should contain the following information:
- Your name
- Your current title or position
- Your institutional affiliation
- A proposed title for your presentation
- A description (approximately two paragraphs) of what you will present and reasons it is significant
- Your audiovisual, computer or demonstration needs
- Any supporting information you want the Committee to review
Each session will be approximately 60 to 90 minutes in length although that may change depending on the proposals we receive.
The day will begin with a short plenary session, we will have roundtables at lunch, and we will end with a plenary session. Most of the morning and afternoon will be filled with simultaneous presentations. Thanks for proposing one.
On behalf of the Planning Committee, I look forward to hearing from you in the next month and seeing you in Salt Lake City in June 2013.
If you have any questions, please send me an email note or call me at 845/255-7181 (o) or 845/258=8363 (m).
Fred Mayo
For the CAFÉ Leadership Conference Planning Committee for Best Practices in Education (Colin Roche, Johnson and Wales; Daryl Nosek, Westchester Community College; Mary Petersen, CAFÉ)
