Equipment can make all the difference to the success of a breakfast-in-the-classroom program, from menu development to delivery method. Your kitchen equipment is a big factor in determining the types of foods you can prepare, hold, deliver, and serve to the classroom. As you plan what your BIC program will look like, you may find…
This is the second in a multi-part series about our visit to DeSoto ISD to observe breakfast in the classroom. Don’t forget to follow our friends in DeSoto on Facebook and Twitter, and check back soon for the third part in this ongoing series. If you read the first part in our series about breakfast-in-the-classroom…
Happy New Year everyone! We’re getting a jump start with a short round-up of school breakfast-related news for January 2018! Do you have school breakfast goals for the New Year? Bookmark us to read stakeholder stories and testimonials, find resources, and connect with colleagues from around the country. January is National Oatmeal Month It’s cold…
The School Nutrition Foundation will begin accepting online applications for two equipment grants on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 11 a.m. ET. Why are we telling you this now? To give you time to prepare your application, because only the first fifty online applications will be considered for each grant! Let’s take a closer look…
Increasing capacity and improving infrastructure are often necessary when implementing breakfast-in-the-classroom, but those upgrades can be prohibitively expensive. That’s when a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant can come in pretty handy. Just before Thanksgiving, we received an email from Alexandria City Public Schools grant officer Greg Tardieu about progress being made on construction…
When we asked Hernando County Schools’ Foodservice Director Lori Drenth, MS, RD, SNS, about the impact her new Winston kitchen equipment would have on her district’s nutrition program, she paused for a moment to consider her answer. “Pride,” she replied. “It always feels like Christmas for a manager to get a new piece of equipment.…
If you joined us last week for SNA’s Webinar Wednesday—Operating a Breakfast in the Classroom Program: Everything You Want to Know about Implementation—you will remember Lawrence Whiting, Coordinator of Operations at Franklin City Schools in Virginia, as one of our guest presenters. A few days after the webinar we sat down to chat with Lawrence…
When Assistant Superintendent Olivia Zepeda took over the Nutrition Services department in Gadsden Elementary School District #32 she noticed something right away about her schools’ breakfast—students weren’t eating it. “I saw lots—and lots, and LOTS—of students going out to the playground when they could be going to the cafeteria to eat,” said Olivia, who has…
