When students are hungry, they can’t learn! And when students eat breakfast, the results are pretty spectacular: Improved academic performance on standardized tests Improved concentration and memory Better math scores Better attendance and fewer tardies Fewer trips to the nurse’s office, and fewer behavioral referalls to the front office And that’s just for starters. Fewer…
March is all about school breakfast! Up first is National School Breakfast Week (March 1-6) celebrations in cafeterias around the country, so make sure you check in with us for great photos, stories, and scratch recipes from some of our favorite breakfast-in-the-classroom programs. March is also home to some excellent new school breakfast webinars from…
More kids are eating school breakfast than ever before according to our partners at the Food Research & Action Center. FRAC’s latest School Breakfast Scorecard report was released earlier this week, along with their annual School Breakfast: Making it Work in Large School Districts report. Let’s take a closer look at the state of school…
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for all of us, but for growing children it’s a critical part of physical and educational growth—hungry kids can’t learn! That’s why we’re so passionate about breakfast-in-the-classroom—it’s proven to increase participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP). The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are excited…
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…
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for all of us, but for growing children it’s a critical part of physical and educational growth—hungry kids can’t learn! That’s why we’re so passionate about breakfast-in-the-classroom—it’s proven to increase participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP). The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are excited…
In case you missed it, the application period for the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant is officially open! If you live in Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Utah, Texas, Idaho, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, or Nebraska, we’re ready to help you implement breakfast-in-the-classroom in your school or district. With generous funding from the Walmart Foundation,…
You’ve heard it from principals. You’ve heard it from superintendents. You’ve heard it from teachers, from school nutrition directors, from the PTA and the dietitian—breakfast-in-the-classroom works! That’s why we are so excited to announce that the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom has received $7.5 million in new funding to distribute breakfast-in-the-classroom grants in ten…
When it comes to the success of a breakfast-in-the-classroom program a supportive principal is crucial. Managers and directors tell us time and again, ‘I would love to do breakfast-in-the-classroom, but first you have to help me convince my principal!’ When the principal is on board, they can act as a champion to rally other stakeholders…
