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JB 43 graduates! JB 44 keeps trucking on their ManageFirst studies.
Delicate Balance
JB 43 Kitchen with Bee! It’s the final stretch… the second to last week of the program is just about over and we have learned some important lessons while working the straight dough method. One of them has been maintaining a delicate balance when...
Sweet Smells, Appreciation, and JB 44 Enters!
This week you get to hear from both of the Just Bakery worlds! We will start out with a peek at what our JB 43 bakers been doing in the kitchen this week and then we'll finish it off with an intro and summary from Marlene in JB 44 about how the...
Turning Up the Heat!
JB 43 had their first kitchen only week this week and it went swell! Here is Bee to fill you in! "We are three weeks from finishing the program and it is a big production week in the kitchen. We have gotten speedier and more practiced in our pie...
Messy Measuring and Mixing Ahead
Bee and Jazmine just finished their last week of the classroom and are moving on to the ktichen only portion! No more long reading assignments, now they get to focus on the dough! Here is Bee to tell you about the week! "Well…. it was the final...
Tests and Presentations!
We'll start things off this week with Bee's summary of the week, and end with a couple of pictures from the youth's baking experiments this week! "It has been a busy and productive week in the classroom and the kitchen! Can’t wait for next week,...
Keeping Busy!
This week was JB 43’s second week in the kitchen and the youth cohort’s second week total! We’ll start with Bee and JB 43, and then we’ll check in with Zack and Justin, our youth cohort instructors, on what they have been up to over there! Bee:...
JB 43 Enters the Kitchen
JB 43 made it through the grueling first month of classroom only and finally started in the kitchen! The first day is a lot like the first day in the classroom where they are presented with a bunch of information as they prepare to get baking, and...
JB 42: Moving On, JB 43: Moving In
Today is a happy yet sad day as we say "Congratulations" to Nathan and Tom on their JB Graduation. They have been super flexible with everything that changed when Covid-19 popped up their third week of class, and they have killed it the whole time!...
Getting Situated
"What did we do this week? Well, there was math: multiplying, dividing (ugh, long division), and learning how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions- very important for when we get into the kitchen. We also learned a lot in Nutrition...
Kicking Off Week 1
Wow-what an exciting, yet education filled week! The new class got to learn about each other through various team-building exercises such as Solve The Puzzle (taking a picture and having them each draw one section and then place them together) and...
The Final Stretch!
Wow, JB 41 has made it to the end goal: one week away from the final tests! Just one more week remains after this and then its all kitchen and on to the next class! JB 41 has been having lots of fun experimenting with new and different recipes, and...
Self-Love, Nutrition Presentations, and Large Orders!
"It was an eventful week here at Just Bakery. We ended last week with a grief group and some intense, deep grief counseling. To offset that, we packed this week with many fun activities. For our Wellness group on Wednesday, we made lists of our top...