The Case For Healthy Lunch
25 Sep 2011 6 Comments
This past Friday, I had the pleasure of spending time with a few of our students at the park, and then offered to provide a ride home for two of them. During my conversation with one student on the way home, something miraculous happened. The student told me he had gone to Burger King recently and, to his surprise, he wasn’t as interested in the burger as he once was. In fact, he said, it kind of made him a little sick. Now, I don’t mean to pick on Burger King, but there is a good reason this was a miraculous statement. More
A New Journey Begins
04 Sep 2011 2 Comments
What better way to signal the start of a new journey than with an 8 mile hike through a canyon?
Last week, One Spark Academy opened its doors to a handful of bright, creative and motivated students…and equally motivated and excited teachers! Four days of lessons and, in a sense, what seemed like private tutoring, was combined with downtime in the game room playing pool and in the gym playing dodgeball. For lunch, we sat down together and enjoyed a healthy meal each day courtesy of Laura’s amazing menu planning and culinary prepping skills. The productivity was so high, the concentration so apparent, that very little independent work (if any!) was needed to be done at home. More
