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2025-02-07 Meeting notes

2025-02-07 Meeting notes

 Date

Feb 7, 2025

 Participants

  • @Erin Soward

  • @Stephanie, @Lara, @Kari, @Amy, @Adriana Threet @Becca, @Emily, @Sarah, @Zexi, @Elizabeth, @Maud Morgan @Dayne

 Goals

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 Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

15 mins

Research Ramping Up

Amy

  • Honors Student (Katie)- Gentle parenting questionnaire (no consent form)

  • Jeff Lockman Fine Motor Study - we will need help getting consent forms back (its a long form). This study will be pulling student out of class.

  • Maria Arredondo - Amy will keep you posted

  • Katherine Tillman - Counterfactual reasoning study continued from past years

1 hr 15 mins

Eating Together at School - Family Style Dining

Marissa Epstein

  • Slides will be linked here for more specific data

  • What are family style meals and why are they important?

    • Family meals are one of the most effective ways to decrease picky eating

    • Caregiver stress to child stress cycle caused by parenting style

    • Positive attitudes towards food and dining

  • Family Meal Times Study

  • Supper Club!

  • Setting up the environment for success

  • Division of Responsibility - Ellyn Satter

    • Caregivers: What, where, when, environment

    • Kids: Whether to eat, how much

  • Use specific, accurate adjectives to describe food (List linked here)

  • Teacher script document with sentence stems and conversation ideas

  • Idea to add daily snack to Pecan lunch

  • We can modify Marissa’s place setting mat and use for snack or house dramatic play

  • Idea for family education session - possibility for fall community seminar

  • Feel empowered as an educator to call out and educate parents around problematic behaviors with eating

  • Idea to Include Marissa in Science of the Lab School

 Action items

 Decisions

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