We’re just two months away from the biggest school nutrition conference of the year—the School Nutrition Association’s Annual National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. We look forward to seeing new faces and meeting old friends at the Atlanta Convention Center, July 9-12, 2017. Don’t forget that early bird registration ends on Friday, May 12, 2017, after…
Colleen Fillmore (Ph.D, RDN, LD, SNS) has served as USDA Idaho Child Nutrition Director for thirteen years, having got her start in USDA programs in Omaha, Nebraska, in the early 1980s. Over the course of her career, Fillmore says, she “pretty much saw the birth of the [school] breakfast program.” “Breakfast was just barely getting…
Do you work in a Mississippi school or district that struggles with breakfast participation? Are mornings in your school cafeteria chaotic or disruptive? Is your breakfast line too long to accommodate all of the students who want to eat the morning meal at school? Breakfast-in-the-classroom goes beyond increasing access to school breakfast; it’s a proven…
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…
If you’ve never had a kolache, it’s time to visit Texas! The meat-filled pastry is Czech in origin, and a staple of the Texas diet. When we visited Austin ISD in November 2016, we learned that kolaches are a student-favorite breakfast-in-the-classroom menu item that require a labor-intensive, multi-day preparation process. We asked Austin ISD to…
Prince George’s County Public Schools (Md.) was one of the original five districts funded by the first cycle of the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in 2010-11. In the most recent School Breakfast Scorecard released by FRAC, Maryland ranked fifth, achieving a ratio of 64.2 low-income students participating in school breakfast for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
