The Teaching Resources Portal

 If you have ever put together a class or workshop, especially one with food and health, you know what it takes to create and test recipes, develop the workshop outline, create all the materials and then take on the experience of sharing it with others.

This is the on ramp to ease the way. We’re making this easier for you.
 

It is time to save yourself from:

• hundreds of hours to research
• creating recipes, testing them, and the creating them again
• developing your logistics plan
• making shopping lists, prep lists and of course checking those lists off
• then comes the promotional piece and actually filling your classes

You should be out in the world sharing all you know (and continue to learn) about culinary nutrition, not drowning in all tedious details of planning.

It’s now your turn to become the teacher and we want to help.

The Teaching Resources Portal is a unique, information-packed resource portal that makes teaching cooking classes and workshops easy - whether you're doing it in person or online.

Registration is now open to everyone.

(Payment plan available)

Introducing The Teaching Resources Portal

The Teaching Resources Portal is your go-to hub for everything you need to start teaching classes in person and live online straight away just as Meghan and our Culinary Nutrition Experts have done for more than a decade.

The Teaching Resources Portal is a hub of information, videos, guides, and intellectual property you can use to teach nine carefully designed classes.

Based on over a decade of experience, and thousands of planning and teaching hours, we have chosen class topics that have far reach, are in demand and suitable to teach by both recent graduates of our program and seasoned pros who have been out in the world teaching for years.

Cooking Class / Workshop Topics Included:

• Inspired Anti-Inflammatory Eating
• Allergen-Friendly Cooking
• Best Healthy Breakfasts
• Cooking for Great Digestion
• Eating for Awesome Energy
• Family Favourites
• Meal Prep Made Easy
• Smoothie and Elixir Magic
• Fearless Fermentation

The Resources We Provide For Each Class

For each of the above cooking class themes, we provide the following detailed resources to support your success in sharing these classes and empowering those who seek your guidance to make health happen in their own lives.

For each of the nine classes outlined above, you receive:

1. Promotional Copy: You’ll receive a word document with promotional copy that you can add to emails, social media posts or blog posts to help you share and promote your classes.
2. Promotional Flyer: A professionally designed promotional flyer using original photography that can be sent as an email or printed and shared in local businesses to help promote your classes.
3. Promotional Images: You’ll have gorgeous professionally styled and shot images (one per class) in various sizes and formats to use across social media to help you support your efforts in getting the word out about your classes.

4. Original Recipes: A packet of original recipes specially created to support the class topic.
5. Logistics Plan for a Cooking Class*: This logistics plan is to help you get set and ready for success. It includes your prep schedule, equipment list, and time blocking for a hands on cooking class.

6. Logistics Plan for a Workshop: Prefer a demonstration-style workshop? We also include a logistics plan for a workshop that includes a prep schedule, equipment list and time blocking chart for a demonstration-style class.
7. Teaching Manual and Talking Points: Consider this your cheat sheet. For each class you receive a fully researched and referenced guide to sharing your nutritional knowledge while teaching. This guide includes all of the recipes, outlining specific key health tips and culinary tips for key ingredients in each recipe. There is also space provided to add your own notes.

8. Student Handout: Enable your students to follow along and leave them empowered with a handout that includes the key takeaways from the class guides, tips, strategies, all of the recipes made in class along with all of the references for the research.
9. Shopping List: Finally, we also include your class shopping list in an editable document so you can add and remove items as needed based on any specifications you need for your class.

*There is no logistics plan for a cooking class for the Smoothie and Elixir class. We’re hopeful people know how to blend stuff, so this class topic is best suited as a demo-style workshop where you can wow your crew with knowledge.

We Have Videos, Too!

In the Teaching Resources Portal you’ll find 30+ tutorial videos that answer some of the most common questions our graduates have when you get out in the world and start teaching. You’ll learn how to get your home ready for teaching, waivers and insurance, how to handle cancellations, food allergies, as well as how to fill your classes, how to set up your bench for confident teaching live or online and more.

Video Modules

Module 1: How To Use Class Resources

This module walks you through the Teaching Resources Portal and what to expect.

Module 2: Getting Your Ducks In A Row

Topics covered include:

• Teaching In Your Home
• Teaching Out of Your Home
• Insurance and Liability
• Food Handling Safety (this is not a food handling safety class, but more on if you need one and where to find one)

Module 3:  Best Practices for Registration

Topics covered include:

• Getting Set-Up For Registration
• Preparing Your Guests In Advance Of The Class
• Addressing Food Allergies
• Cancellations/ Terms and Conditions

Module 4: Filling Your Classes

Topics covered include:

• Using Your Mailing List To Fill Classes
• Using Social Media To Fill Classes
• Using Local Business To Fill Classes

Module 5: Pricing and Selling Stuff

Topics covered include:

• Your Class Costs
• Pricing and Packaging Classes
• Selling Products and Upselling
• Creating More Value For Guests
• Turning Classes Into Full Day Events

Module 6: Making Your Class a Success

Topics covered include:

• Hands-On versus Demonstration-Style
• Class Preparation
• Substitutions
• Serving
• All About Your Audience
• Ice Breakers for Family Style Classes
• Follow-Up with Participants
• Getting Over Your Fear and Going With The Flow
• Making Your Class A Success

Module 7: Best Practices For Teaching Cooking Classes and Workshops Live Online

Topics covered include:

• How to prepare your audience for an online learning experience
• Basic tech checks to do in advance of your class
• Best tools to use to make it simple for you and your audience
• How to prep your cooking bench or ‘set’ for online teaching
• What to prep in advance, what to have ready for the class
• How to teach to a camera
• Tips of keeping your audience interacting and engaged

Registration is now open to everyone.

(Payment plan available)

Return On Investment

Our expectation is that you will be charging attendees for these classes, making your investment in the Teaching Resources Portal incredibly cost-efficient. Let’s do some math!

Time Needed To Create A Cooking Class

To create a class from start to finish including recipe creation and testing, promotional images, promotional copy,  your prep schedule, teaching plan, research, speaking notes and student handout.

• Time needed per class to do on your own: 40+ hours per class
• Time needed using the Teaching Portal Resources: 1 hour (mainly updating your shopping list)

>> Total time savings: 360 hours!

The time it takes to prepare classes is not billable time. It’s time that takes you away from teaching, working with clients, and limits your free time. The Teaching Resources Portal allows you to save time getting your classes ready, and more time for family, friends, and the other aspects of your life.

Earnings Per Class

Depending on where you live and what others in your area are charging, most classes and workshops can sell for $60 – $110 per person, per in-person class. For a live, online class, you could start at $35 per person, per online class.

Let’s break down your profitable possibilities.

>> Sample Earnings:

• Two classes for six people at $75/person: You will earn $900. Teach 4 classes you’ll have earned back your investment in the portal, and cover your hard costs for your class. Basically, you could break even after teaching just four classes.
• Teaching a 4-week cooking program: Choose four of the eight classes to sell as a 4-part cooking series. Let’s say you have room for eight people and package this up and sell it for $400 for the 4-week series. That works out to $3,200!
• Teaching one class a month to ten people for eight months: Let’s say you are doing this as a side hustle and want to teach a different class on the first Saturday of the month from September through to May (taking December off!). If you have ten people register at $100/class for all eight Saturdays, you would earn $8,000 per year! Over 5 times your investment and a sweet little bonus income.

The Teaching Resources Portal is the investment in your business to potentially save you hundreds of hours of your time. And earn you thousands of dollars in your pocket.

Start sharing what you know.

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