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…
No matter how many blog posts we write, we can never seem to fit everything in when it comes to National School Breakfast Week! For this reason, we’re going to whip up today’s bonus blog for you, which includes two super-yummy school breakfast recipes from Windham Raymond School District RSU #14. Earlier in March we…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
If there’s one thing we have learned about school breakfast, it’s that there is no such thing as “one size fits all.” Not only is this very true—it’s one of the greatest strengths of school breakfast. “Whenever I’m meeting with folks about breakfast-in-the-classroom, I give them all the same piece of advice,” said Partners for…
You guys—it’s almost National School Breakfast Week! Are you ready?! We are absolutely thrilled to celebrate our FAVORITE school breakfast campaign of the year with you! The NSBW theme for 2015 is “Make the Grade,” and for the last month we’ve been talking with school nutrition professionals, principals, teachers, and other stakeholders about the school…
It won’t come as a surprise to our longtime readers—we love breakfast around here! The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are on a mission to bring breakfast to every student in the country because we know that breakfast translates into a better-nourished student who is ready to learn! Arriving on the heels of National…
