Lisa Bradley is the Site Coordinator at Mount Baker Middle School in Mount Vernon.
She is excited to be doing what she loves, working with middle school students and supporting them during this exciting and often challenging time of life. For the past twenty years, Lisa has been a passionate and caring health educator for students from fifth grade up to the university level. Most recently she worked as a substance use prevention coordinator for a middle school in Rhode Island. She strongly believes building positive relationships sets the foundation for a place where people can grow and learn and that all students need to feel loved and supported in order to reach their full potential.
In her free time, Lisa enjoys reading, listening to music, watching movies, puzzles, cooking and spending time with her family and her dog, Rascal.
Cooking Club Success
Lisa shares her thoughts and feelings about the cooking club at Mount Baker Middle School.
A Tier II I am proud of is our cooking club offered to our caseloads. This year we are providing a cooking club to more students and teaching more lessons along with the cooking experience than in the past. Having the donated supplies from SNAP-Ed and the gift cards from Fred Meyer really made it possible. I am so grateful to be able to bring this experience to our 6-8th grade students. The kids are having a lot of fun and learning important skills that will last their lifetime. I am having a lot of fun too. I know I have shared this before but I miss being a teacher in the classroom a lot.
“This brings me back to why I became a health teacher and just fills me with a lot of joy seeing kids make connections and take lessons home to use on their own.”
Lisa Bradley, March 2026
I’m also remembering how much work it is!!! I knew it was going to be a big undertaking since we don’t have the SNAP-ed educators doing all the planning, shopping, prepping and cleaning. It really does take a lot more time than it might seem. Ivett and I have been able to make it happen and are working on figuring out ways to make it run smoothly. The first year of new support is always the hardest. We are taking lots of notes and really working on prepping everything so that it can be used again next year and we can spend a lot less time on it. For me, it’s been worth the stress and time put in. Connecting kids to food and cooking skills is such a passion for me that it makes it all worthwhile. I’m looking forward to the next four weeks.
-Sourced from March 2026 Monthly Reflection