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Five Ways to Prepare for National School Breakfast Week (March 6-10, 2017)

Are you ready to celebrate National School Breakfast Week? It’s right around the corner! With just three weeks left, you’ll want to make sure to get organized and ready to promote your school breakfast program. Are you serving breakfast-in-the-classroom? NSBW is the perfect time to share the many benefits of moving breakfast from the cafeteria…

Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom Chat, #NSBW16 Edition: Meredith Potter and Lauren Koff, Houston County Schools, Georgia

To close out National School Breakfast Week here at Beyond Breakfast, we sat down to chat with Meredith Potter, Director of School Nutrition, and Kauren Koff, Dietitian, from Houston County Schools in Georgia. Houston County was the recipient of a substantial grant from the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom which, when paired with Community…

Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom Chat, #NSBW16 Edition: Cleta Long, School Nutrition Director, Bibb County School District, Georgia

Between SNA’s 2016 Legislative Action Conference and the FRAC/Feeding America National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference we stayed very busy during our too-brief visit to Washington, D.C. In between LAC sessions at the Marquis Marriott we sat down with Cleta Long (EdD, SNS) to discuss the upcoming roll-out of breakfast-in-the-classroom at three of her Bibb County School…

Celebrating National School Breakfast Week 2016: March 7-11

At Partners for Breakfast at the Classroom, we love school breakfast 365 days a year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get extra excited for National School Breakfast Week! Held annually, this year’s National School Breakfast Week theme is “Wake Up! to School Breakfast” and will be celebrated March 7-11. Are you ready? We have…

Best of National School Breakfast Week 2015: Our ‘Final Four’ Top Picks!

Once we finally had the chance to take a deep breath and look around, National School Breakfast Week 2015 was over! We hope you enjoyed our NSBW 2015 coverage here at Beyond Breakfast—check out our archive for any stories you may have missed! Speaking of stories missed, that’s what today’s blog post is all about—we’re…

NSBW 2015 School Breakfast Q&A: Heather Wellings, Nutrition Specialist, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Florida

Wrapping up an exciting week of National School Breakfast Week coverage, we bring you today’s question-and-answer session with Heather Wellings from Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Florida. Back in February we ran across HCPS’s Student Nutrition Service Facebook page and fell in love with their photos; we reached out, and Heather was kind enough…

NSBW 2015 Breakfast-in-the-Classroom Spotlight: McMinnville School District Principals Champion Program’s Positive Impact

This is Part Two of a two-part series on breakfast-in-the-classroom at McMinnville School District in Oregon. Today we will hear from principals at two McMinnville Schools—Margie Johnson from Grandhaven Elementary and Kourtney Ferrua of Wascher Elementary—on why they believe breakfast-in-the-classroom is the perfect fit for their schools. Don’t miss Part One of our McMinnville series,…

NSBW 2015 Breakfast-in-the-Classroom Spotlight: McMinnville School District, McMinnville, Oregon

This is Part One of a two-part series on breakfast-in-the-classroom at McMinnville School District in Oregon. Check back tomorrow to hear from principals at two McMinnville Schools—Margie Johnson from Grandhaven Elementary and Kourtney Ferrua of Wascher Elementary—on why they believe breakfast-in-the-classroom is the perfect fit for their schools. Regular readers of Beyond Breakfast might remember…

NSBW 2015: Des Moines Public Schools Growing Breakfast-in-the-Classroom Program

Our National School Breakfast Week 2015 coverage continues today with an update from Sandy Huisman, Director of Food & Nutrition Management at Des Moines Public Schools. The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom funded the Des Moines school district’s breakfast-in-the-classroom project in the 2012-13 SY. The last time we spoke with Sandy she had just finished…

Erie, Pennsylvania Sets the Stage for Breakfast-in-the-Classroom

This blog post originally appeared on the NEA Health Information Network blog as part of the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom’s National School Breakfast Week coverage. Visit the Partners page via the link below for more information on breakfast-in-the-classroom! As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) initiative enters its third round of funding,…