Do you work in a Missouri school or district with a high free-and-reduced rate student population, but you’re struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast? The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom can help! We are currently offering breakfast-in-the-classroom grants in ten target states, including Missouri. Missouri ranks 14th in the country according to…
Joseph Pettit came to Charleston County School District three years ago, moving back to his native South Carolina from Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in restaurants. Although there were plenty of foodservice opportunities to be had in the Cleveland suburbs, Joseph felt a real desire to return to his roots. “I have a real passion…
If you work in an Oklahoma school or district and you are struggling with school breakfast participation, the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom have great news! We are currently offering breakfast-in-the-classroom grants in ten states, including Oklahoma. In FRAC’s most recent School Breakfast Scorecard Oklahoma is 18th in the country, reaching 58.7 free/reduced-priced students…
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…
If you work in a Utah school or district that struggles with breakfast participation, we’ve got some news for you: Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are now offering breakfast-in-the-classroom grants in your state. According to FRAC’s most recent School Breakfast Scorecard, Utah has increased breakfast participation by 7.7 percent, but it’s not enough; they…
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…
In honor of National School Breakfast Week 2017 we are sharing some of our favorite scratch-made school breakfast recipes from around the country! Today’s recipes for muffins come to us courtesy of Jeanne Reilly, director of school nutrition at Windham Raymond School District in Maine. Follow the Windham Raymond school nutrition program on Facebook for more…
Happy National Nutrition Month and happy National School Breakfast Week! It’s only fitting that #NSBW17 kicks off at the beginning of #NationalNutritionMonth; just as breakfast is the best way to start your day, celebrating breakfast is the best way to start a month-long nutrition celebration! National School Breakfast Week We are right in the middle…
