Our CAFÉTalks Podcasts can be great learning opportunities for your students. We recently received a note from Maureen LaSalle, with Southern Maine Community College. She gave her students an assignment to listen to a hospitality podcast. She provided them with a list of choices including the CAFÉTalks Podcasts.

One of her students chose CAFÉTalks Podcast and listened to episode #63 – Chefs as Diplomats, featuring, Christopher Weissberg, Member of French Parliament. Maureen wanted to share her student’s response with us.

Student Response: “I would definitely listen to this podcast again to learn new information about the culinary and hospitality world. I found this episode to be extremely informative and I will hold on to the information given for future use. I am now considering traveling the world to learn new ways to cook and eat!”

Maureen also wrote:

“Thank you for providing great learning opportunities for my students.”

Have you thought about using our Podcast as part of your classroom assignments? We have a few podcasts that have lesson plans already created for them. If you would like to help us create lesson plans for any of our podcasts and share them please reach out to us. It takes a village to teach and your students would benefit.

To view our podcast selections please go to www.cafemeetingplace.com/cafe-podcasts.

Call for Presenters/Presentations

CAFÉ devotes one day of its annual Leadership Conference to Educational Best Practices. These one-hour peer presentations are quite important and are very much appreciated by those in attendance.

What do we hope to get?

An outline of something that you have introduced to your classes which could benefit others in how they reach out and cover the necessary guidance that students are looking for.

Next year’s theme will be “Invent the Future.” 

What have you done that you could pass on to other instructors…whether secondary or postsecondary applications.

We would like to hear from you: a title, a brief outline, and your contact details, including a short bio.

Please send your submissions toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with "Educational Best Practices" in the subject line.

Deadline for submission is October 16^th. Presenters receive a $100 discount on their conference registration.

Thank you!

Mary Petersen, Executive Editor, GMC