Andrea O’Bannon has a Bachelor of Arts in Fiction Writing and Russian History from Sarah Lawrence College. She also has an Associates in Occupational Studies from The Culinary Institute of America. She was the Executive Chef for seven years at Dharma Blue in Pensacola Florida. In addition, she has worked in various other positions in the kitchen such as head baker, prep cook, line cook and kitchen manager. She has worked in restaurants as large as 900 seats (The Flying Bridge in Falmouth, Mass) to as small as 50 seats (Curtis and Schwartz Café in Northampton, Mass). She has worked independent establishments like Dharma and corporate establishments like Bonefish Grill.
Her alma mater has the motto of “Preparation is Everything”. She has carried that with her throughout her career in restaurants and into her second career as a chef instructor. She teaches her students how important it is to be prepared. It doesn’t matter what you are going to do just be PREPARED. Do the research, the leg work, and the planning. |
Nora Hill is Park Hill High School’s ProStart teacher. Nora has taught ProStart for thirteen of the fifteen years she has been employed with the Park Hill District. In the summer of 2006, she attended the MoEFACS summer conference as a new public-school teacher. At the conference, Nora was introduced to the ProStart program, and she instantly knew her students needed this program. As she continued researching the program, she became even more enthused that it aligned perfectly with Park Hill’s Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP). Nora collaborated with Missouri’s ProStart Director to introduce ProStart to Park Hill’s administrators. She demonstrated the alignment of the program with the employability skills component of the District’s CSIP. Nora was also very excited about the additional opportunities that were offered through the ProStart culinary competitions and the National Certificate of Achievement. Park Hill High School and Park Hill School District enthusiastically agreed to begin implementing the program in the 2007-2008 school year becoming among the first ProStart program in Missouri.
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Missouri ProStart is proud to announce Ms. Jody Fowler as the 2019 Missouri ProStart Educator of the Year. For 15 years of Jody’s 19-year teaching career, she has taught ProStart. Currently Jody is teaching at Liberty North High School in Liberty Missouri.
Throughout her career Jody has valued continually developing her skills to be able to give her students the best educational experience possible. She has attended National Restaurant Association Summer Institutes, ServSafe training, fall and spring Missouri ProStart workshops, MoEFACS Summer Conference trainings and summer workshops at The Art Institute and Johnson & Wales. |
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