New GMC stories focus on ideas and activities geared toward active learning instructing.

By Lisa Parrish, GMC Editor

Instructors know culinary students understand foodservice economics when the class shakes their heads in disbelief at the profit earned for $100 in sales. Students must understand the bottom line.

By Adam Weiner, JD, CFSE

From uncertainty comes opportunity for those willing to learn from the past and cut new trails toward a bright future.

By Paul Sorgule, MS, AAC

Chef Instructor Amanda Miller mentors female students on finding their kitchen voice by standing up and standing out.

By Amanda N. Miller, CC, CPC

EDITOR'S LETTER

Dear Educators and CAFÉ Partners, 

Traditionally, the December Gold Medal Classroom (GMC) edition has a culminating year-in-review air to it. And, like everything else, the year 2020 has changed even this traditional issue. 

Stop. What is your immediate reaction to the sentence: 2020 has changed everything? Are you smiling at the thought of the changes? Are you cringing at what has transpired? Are you ambivalent? (And, if you are the latter, I’d like to know as I have not interacted with anyone who is so-so about 2020.) Remember your reaction as I will return to it.