H1N1 News
Alief ISD has received the first batch of H1N1 vaccines for students and staff. For those interested, vaccination will be given on a first-come-first-serve basis. Students have received information sheets to bring home, forms are posted online, and they are available at campuses.
Consistent with the district's infection control program, school nurses are still monitoring student illness and teachers are stressing the importance of good hygiene practices, such as hand washing and covering coughs and sneezes. To help prevent the spread of the flu viruses, the CDC still recommends that students exhibiting flu-like symptoms (fever with a cough or sore throat) should not attend school for at least 24 hours after fever is gone.
Alief Food Production Program gets recognized by the CIA
Alief instructor Kathy Meisenheimer and the Alief Food Production Program have just received word from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) that the program is certified to fulfill the CIA experience requirement for admission. Each student who completes the Alief program will automatically meet the field experience requirement for admittance into the Culinary Institute of America.
A recent hands-on opportunity that students received included having Chef Aaron Jenkins, the kitchen manager for Pappadeux Restaurant at Intercontinental Airport, visit the Food Production II class for advanced students to give a garnish demonstration. Jenkins worked along side the students to teach them several garnishing techniques. He also explained how simple decorative additions are useful in food presentation at the professional level.
Pappadeux Restaurant's Chef Aaron Jenkins demonstrates
how to make potato and lemon garnishes to advanced culinary students.
Alief Food Production II students practice
making decorative garnishes in the food lab.