The School Nutrition Foundation Red Carpet Video Booth was a huge success at ANC 2013, and we are bringing you more video from our time in Kansas City. One of the great benefits of the Annual National Conference is the opportunity to meet fellow school nutrition professionals and exchange ideas; this is the reason why…
Our video blog series from ANC 2013, Kansas City, continues with this set of three videos, featuring stories from the great state of Indiana. Angie, Gina, and Laurie share the school breakfast news from their cafeterias and classrooms, including the students’ favorite breakfast meals, delivery methods, and tips on how to succeed with school breakfast.…
One of our goals here at Beyond Breakfast is to consistently provide our readers with excellent school breakfast resources. To that end, we invite school nutrition professionals to join us for our upcoming Breakfast Learning Series, which will be conducted over the course of five months using Podio, an online work platform designed for collaboration…
We are really excited to begin sharing our video footage from ANC 2013 in Kansas City. Throughout the course of the conference, we invited school nutrition professionals from around the country to step in front of the SNF camera and tell us their school breakfast stories. We heard about participation, delivery methods, menu items, and…
The School Nutrition Foundation is excited to announce that we have released two new Breakfast-in-the-Classroom case studies. Each study details the implementation of universal breakfast-in-the-classroom pilot programs, one in Memphis City Schools and the other in Dallas Public Schools. These pilot programs were funded through the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom; along with SNF,…
Our first full day of sessions at ANC started off with a bang, and it was busy at the SNF booth! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to introduce themselves, talk about breakfast-in-the-classroom, and to mark your location on our “Where in the world are you serving breakfast?” map. We love to find out where…
The Annual National Conference in Kansas City is less than a week away, and the staff at the School Nutrition Foundation are excited to see you there! Whether we are meeting again, or meeting for the first time, we hope you will stop by our booth in the Kansas City Convention Center to say hello. We…
The key to breakfast-in-the-classroom success is right there in the name of our initiative: partners. Collaboration, coalition-building, and stakeholder engagement are a variation on a theme we have explored time and again here at the Beyond Breakfast blog. The Partners for Breakfast-in-the-Classroom—Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESP…
Kim Pankowski is the breakfast-in-the-classroom Field Specialist for School District U-46, Elgin (IL). We sat down with Kim on our recent visit to Harriet Gifford Elementary School to discuss the first year of BIC in Elgin, and what’s next for the program. Thank you for sharing your insights with us, Kim! Beyond Breakfast: Kim, tell us…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Senior Program Manager, Paula Zdanowicz, MPH Last week SNF visited Harriet Gifford Elementary School in Elgin, a suburb of Chicago, for a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom media event. School District U-46 has experienced great success with expanding its school breakfast participation. Since the beginning of BIC, participation…