2024 ServSafe Training

Watch for 2023-2024 opportunities during the 2023-2024 school year.

ACTE Region III Conference (Representing Iowa. Illinois. Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin) to be held in MN June, 2021.  This conference is only in MN once every 6 years.  More information to come.  Please consider providing a presentation or hosting a tour in the south metro area as the conference may be at Mystic Lake Conference Center.

CTE Works! Virtual Conference

Nov. 3, 2020

Theme: A BOLD Vision Beyond

https://www.cteworksminnesota.org/  Many great sessions and networking activities to participate in!

Out next Family and Consumer Sciences event will be FACS to the Max on Friday, April 17th, 2020.  Our annual meeting will take place in the evening.  The meeting will be held at 4:30 pm with a 5:45 dinner and speaker.  Download the registration form here (Word or PDF) or register online here.

To register for the FACS to the Max conference, please click here.

This is a friendly reminder for Metro area teachers about the Monday, March 16th “Embedding CDA Certification in Early Childhood Education Pathway”   - Registration link closes next Friday, March 13th

If you teach a Child and Human Development course and/or Early Childhood Education Career Pathway,  please try to have at least one person from your department, especially if you are in the metro area. This training will be at MDE and I’m taking the training around the state over the next year.   The Southeast, Southwest and Northwest area (now scheduled for Thursday, May 7th) have expressed interest in this training and I will work with the consortium directors.  If you are in any of these regions but have IMMEDIATE needs and requests from your district, please go ahead and sign up for the metro area training below.

Cost:      Free!  Lunch is on your own.

Registration link:   https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P9CFF38

 This is the future of what the first two levels of Child Development and Early Childhood Education level II  could look like.  In addition to providing life skills and parenting skills needed, we are providing students with a career pathway to enter multiple fields which work with children.  Students take this course, not because they want to learn to parent, they take the course because they love children.  Let’s give them a much needed leg up in starting to pursue this career area and acquire work based experiences in high school doing what they love.  Their future of the opportunities in this field are multiple and varied!

When: Friday, November 1st 2019

Where: Omni Brewing Company, 9462 Deerwood Ln N, Maple Grove, MN

Time: 6pm-9pm

FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS FALL SOCIAL EVENT!

FOOD TRUCKS WILL BE AVAILABLE.

“Revitalize Your Professional Community”

April 6th 2019

Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00

Where: Edina Country Club

Address: 5100 Wooddale Ave Edina, MN 55424

https://www.edinacountryclub.org/club/scripts/view/view_directions.asp?NS=PUBLIC

Sponsored by Minnesota Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

Many organizations are losing membership and commitment needed to continue operating their professional organizations which have been so vital to continuing to provide their members with valuable staff development, collaboration with colleagues, social networking, and other opportunities that enhance the existence of what we do in our professions.   If this is you, please join us for an inspirational day with Michael Brand, renowned speaker) “engaging programs for sustainability.”  To learn more about Michael, go to his website: http://michaelbrand.org/   You may also want to read the following article: http://michaelbrand.org/why-our-service-clubs-are-dying/

This will be an interactive event with Brunch/Lunch being served.  The cost of the event is $25.00.   Our annual meeting will follow the speaker presentation and lunch for those who want to stay.  The deadline for registration will be Monday April 1st so we can get an accurate lunch count. “PDUs & CEUs” will be offered.

Our organization, Minnesota Association of Family and Consumer Sciences is facing not having enough members to continue carrying on the valuable work that we do.  I know other organizations are also facing these types of issues.  Many of us are passionate about what we do.  Let’s keep the pipeline going.  Join us for this event that could give you some tools to make a difference in your professional organization.  You can register for this event the following two ways:

 DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM HERE (PDF) or (Word Doc) or REGISTER ONLINE

For more information please visit the AAFCS website https://www.aafcs.org/fcsday/home

To download the registration form, please click here

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The Good Acre

1790 Larpenteur Ave W

Falcon Heights, MN 55113

https://thegoodacre.org/

The Good Acre was an idea that Pohlad family members turned into a reality. Their intention was to develop a multi-faceted initiative to improve the local food system for diverse, independent farmers and to increase access to healthy produce for all consumers regardless of income. In the fall of 2015 doors opened for learning, training and business.

The evening’s Tour Guide and Presenter will be Emily Paul, Director of Programs at the Good Acre.
At The Good Acre, Emily is responsible for building strategic partnerships, including the Maker to Market program with Lakewinds Food Coop; developing Culinary Training Programs for Farm to School clients, and promoting The Good Acre mission and work to the food community in the Twin Cities and beyond. Emily holds a BA in International Relations and minor in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as a culinary degree from L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, MD.

Our visit will focus on The Good Acre’s work as a nonprofit to advance the local sustainable food system through supporting new/minority/immigrant farmers and food makers in our community.

-A facility tour will showcase the operation’s capabilities.
- Emily will share details on the Good Acre culinary training for K-12 nutrition services and family consumer science, shared commercial kitchen program, and Maker to Market food business accelerator.

- We’ll get a glimpse at future projects and collaborations utilizing Good Acre facility and partnerships answering the needs of evolving local, sustainable food scene.

Schedule:
5:30pm - 5:45pm Registration & Conversation

5:45pm - 6:30pm Learning & exploring The Good Acre facility with Emily Paul.

6:30pm - 7:30pm Supper & Conversation

Menu:

• B-B-Q Pulled Pork on Bun

• Choice of Mac & Cheese or Ginger Glazed Carrots

• Classic Cole Slaw Garden Salad

• Traditional Home-style Apple Pie Ice Water

Register on line at www.fcsprofessionals.org

$30.00 FCS Professional Members

$20.00 FCS Professional Student Members

$24.00 Student Guests

$39.00 Guests

Reservations are due on or before noon Tuesday, October 23. No refunds can be given after October 23rd. To pay by check, make check payable to FCS Professionals and mail to: FCS Professionals, 376 132nd Ave, Houlton, WI 54082

Continuing Education: PDU & CEU credits will be available.

To download this information please click here