We have a winner! The School Nutrition Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 recipient of the SNF/Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant is the Warrior Run School District, located in Turbotville, Pennsylvania. You are going to get to know the staff at Warrior Run, including their School Food Service Supervisor, Renee Frederick. We will…
Kim Pankowski is the breakfast-in-the-classroom Field Specialist for School District U-46, Elgin (IL). We sat down with Kim on our recent visit to Harriet Gifford Elementary School to discuss the first year of BIC in Elgin, and what’s next for the program. Thank you for sharing your insights with us, Kim! Beyond Breakfast: Kim, tell us…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Senior Program Manager, Paula Zdanowicz, MPH Last week SNF visited Harriet Gifford Elementary School in Elgin, a suburb of Chicago, for a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom media event. School District U-46 has experienced great success with expanding its school breakfast participation. Since the beginning of BIC, participation…
Yesterday SNF was back in Charleston, SC to see school breakfast in action. The last time we were here, we visited Angel Oak Elementary for our media event in November 2012. We met up with Walter Campbell, director of foodservice, to visit Garrett Academy and EB Ellington Elementary. Our first stop was Garrett Academy, one…
We recently drove down to Guilford County, NC to check in with our PBIC school sites. Together with food service director Jim Faggione, we visited Sedgefield Elementary School, Welborn Middle School, Parkview Elementary School and Smith High School. Parkview Elementary – coffee house chill in the AM The first thing we noticed at Parkview was…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Senior Program Manager, Paula Zdanowicz, MPH On December 11, 2012 SNF joined Denver Public Schools (CO) for the eighth PBIC media event celebrating Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC). We gathered at Ellis Elementary School with fellow hunger, nutrition and education advocates to highlight how BIC has been benefiting…
Back in November, School Nutrition Foundation Director Julie Abrera visited Angel Oak Elementary in Charleston County, SC to witness breakfast-in-the-classroom in action. You can read Julie’s account here, and check out some video from our visit here. We also wanted to share some of the wonderful local media coverage our breakfast-in-the-classroom event received. Both the local…
Our friends at the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC)—in partnership with the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance—will be hosting the Arkansas Afterschool Meals Summit on Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Little Rock, AR. The Arkansas Out of School Network and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families are also co-hosting the summit; register online today! The…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Director Julie Abrera. Friday, November 9: Cochran Elementary School What a beautiful morning in Louisville! We arrived at Cochran Elementary in Louisville, KY, and were greeted by this sign: Once inside, Principal Tim Foster, and Julia Bauscher, Director of Community Nutrition Services, were working with school staff to…
Bright and early this past Monday morning we pulled up to Mooreland Heights Elementary School in Knoxville, TN. The sky was still dark, but the smiles on the faces of the students immediately brightened the day! As children arrived to start their school day we were led to Mrs. Hovater’s second-grade classroom to observe breakfast-in-the-classroom…
