DeSoto ISD’s Resident Dietitian Jeffrey Caguioa was convinced breakfast-in-the-classroom would be a good fit for his district, but other stakeholders weren’t so sure. Caguioa set out to change minds, one at a time. During a recent visit to Woodbridge Elementary we met with Caguioa, school nutrition staff, and school stakeholders to learn more about how…
We loved following the #NSBW18 hashtag and seeing all of your school breakfast celebrations from around the country during National School Breakfast Week 2018! This year’s theme –“I Heart School Breakfast” – was extra-fun for social media, and your creative use of emojis, clip art, and funny GIFs kept us smiling all week long. …
Happy National Nutrition Month! We’re excited to celebrate the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits this month along with our friends at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics! This year’s National Nutrition Month theme is “Go Further with Food” because: “[W]hether it’s starting the day off right…
Guilford County Schools received a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant during our second funding cycle in the 2012-13 school year. The North Carolina district is home to approximately 77,000 students across 126 schools; at the time the district applied for the grant, breakfast participation was low and school nutrition staff was seeking solutions.…
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…
When it comes to moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom, there are a lot of moving parts—literally and figuratively! In addition to working out the delivery method for getting food to the classroom (Line service to-go? Grab-and-Go kiosks? Direct delivery?), it’s important to gather stakeholder support for the program–this means engaging teachers, administrators,…
Dollars and Cents: Budgeting for BIC In 2016, Livingston Parish Public Schools Foodservice Director Sommer Purvis sat in the audience at SNA’s Annual National Conference for a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom presentation called “A Director, a Teacher, and a Principal Walk into a Bar.” She loved the idea of serving her students universal…
What do superintendents say about breakfast-in-the-classroom? Here’s a round-up of some of our favorite quotes from the blog–and links to the original articles, of course. “I wanted to explore breakfast-in-the-classroom because I thought we were wasting time in the morning, and even though we were already serving universal breakfast district-wide, a lot of kids weren’t…
“CEP opened up a lot more options for us in terms of breakfast-in-the-classroom. In some places the combination of CEP and BIC helped us go from 20-30 percent participation to 80-90 percent—that’s just a huge, huge difference. One of my schools was even serving more breakfasts than lunch for awhile!” [Read more] Craig Hodge, Clarke County School…
One of the most frequently asked questions we hear about breakfast-in-the-classroom is in regard to the different delivery models. Stakeholders want to know the difference between “breakfast in the classroom” versus “Grab-n-Go” versus “Breakfast After the Bell” versus “direct delivery.” The terminology can get confusing, so we are going to break down what these terms…
