National School Breakfast Week is right around the corner (March 3-7, 2014) and we can’t wait to see photos from your celebrations around the country! Each year, we have seen the social media coverage of NSBW grow—make sure you “Take Time for School Breakfast,” and make sure you take time to tag your photos on…
Each month, our staff reads hundreds of media reports on the subject of school nutrition. We curate our favorites in a monthly blog post we call, “In the News.” Highlighting positive stories about the great things going on in school cafeterias helps us in many ways: providing inspiration, connecting school nutrition professionals from across the…
We love to share school breakfast news with you on our Facebook and Twitter feeds, but this week there were just too many great stories to share to do it one at a time—we had to round them up in one place! First, we heard from FRAC and NAESPF, who reported that principals across the…
In the months since the Wellness Impact Report was released, we have been even more keenly aware of some of the exciting, creative things school nutrition professionals are doing to help the students in their schools make “the learning connection.” The learning connection is a central tenet of the report, which posits that healthy school…
It’s hard to believe that September has already passed us by! Now that the 2013-14 school year is in full swing we are seeing so many positive, exciting stories about what’s going on in schools around the country—we had to share a few with you! First, we want to remind you that there are funding…
This year the School Nutrition Foundation is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and we invite you to celebrate with us! We are thrilled to commemorate this achievement, and look forward to continuing our mission to advance school nutrition programs by providing resources to school nutrition professionals. Our dedication is driven by our passion for the important…
With Memorial Day weekend behind us, many school districts are in the final stretch before summer vacation begins. As our school nutrition professionals know, many students that they serve rely on school meals; they are, for many, the only meals school children can rely on. Every year we see a growing need for summer feeding…
The key to breakfast-in-the-classroom success is right there in the name of our initiative: partners. Collaboration, coalition-building, and stakeholder engagement are a variation on a theme we have explored time and again here at the Beyond Breakfast blog. The Partners for Breakfast-in-the-Classroom—Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESP…
It was another big year for school nutrition—and school breakfast, specifically—with lots of exciting changes in cafeterias across America. From school breakfast expansion in ten new districts through Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, to the recent announcement that the USDA will lift the protein and grain limits, school nutrition has stayed in the headlines.…
It may feel like the school year has just started, but National School Lunch Week is already just around the corner! This year’s theme—“School Lunch—What’s Cooking?”—is celebrating the positive changes made in cafeterias around the country. School lunch programs (and breakfast programs!) have demonstrated dedication and creativity in school kitchens, meeting the new meal pattern…
