Readers, I am so excited that I can barely contain myself! This post is brought to you LIVE from Washington, D.C. where I am going to attend the School Nutrition Foundation’s Legislative Action Conference (March 6-9). I haven’t been to D.C. since my 8th grade class trip plus I get to visit with no fewer…
Wow! If you were one of the 180 attendees on Wednesday’s “Coalition Building: How to Build & Strengthen Partnerships within your School Community” Webinar call, I have to believe you were as completely blown away as I was by the information our experts shared with us on how they have successfully created partnerships to help…
One of our partners in Breakfast in the Classroom is the Food Research and Action Center. FRAC is the leading national nonprofit organization working in the area of hunger and malnutrition in the United States today. In addition to our upcoming webinar on coalition building, we wanted to let you know that FRAC also has…
Hey all, did you know that the School Nutrition Foundation holds Webinar Wednesdays? On Wednesday February 23 yours truly (Christina!) will be moderating! If you are interested in joining me for the SNF/Walmart Foundation sponsored webinar “Coalition Building: How to Build and Strengthen Partnerships within your School Community” I hope you will click through to…
Jill Kidd is the Director of Food Services of Pueblo City Schools in Pueblo, CO. Universal breakfast is served in all 38 of the district’s schools; 24 of those schools have in-classroom universal breakfast. In 2009 the Pueblo City School district was recognized with an award by the Colorado Legacy Foundation and the Colorado Department…
The first lady’s “Let’s Move” program just celebrated its one year anniversary. Launched in February of 2010, the program was designed in response to rising childhood obesity rates in the United States. Mrs. Obama is currently on a press tour, speaking about the progress made in the first year of the program and what’s next…
School breakfast—and school nutrition in general—have stayed in the headlines over the last few weeks. The stories run the gamut from simple press releases to heated op-eds on the pros and cons of any number of issues surrounding food in schools: nutritional value, funding, USDA guidelines, education, etc. Here are a few that caught my…
I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, smack in-between Buffalo and Syracuse. I enjoyed my fair share of snow days and then some. To me “snow days” meant sleeping in and lunches of grilled cheese sandwiches and Campbell’s soup with my mom (a teacher) and my younger brother. My mom…
With so much going on in the world of school food and nutrition I thought I’d share some of the headlines from the past few weeks that jumped out at me. If you have a news item you would like to share, please leave it in the comments section! New Dietary Guidelines: Enjoy Food, Eat…
Recently I sat down for a chat with Willie Gentry, Director of Food and Nutrition Services for the Peoria Unified School District. After successfully developing and implementing an in-classroom breakfast program at Alta Loma Elementary School, Willie’s district will be expanding the program into two more schools: Ira A. Murphy Elementary and Sun Valley Elementary.…