March is all about school breakfast! Up first is National School Breakfast Week (March 1-6) celebrations in cafeterias around the country, so make sure you check in with us for great photos, stories, and scratch recipes from some of our favorite breakfast-in-the-classroom programs. March is also home to some excellent new school breakfast webinars from…
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…
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…
It was still dark when we arrived at J.J. “Jake” Pickle Elementary in Austin, Texas at 6:30 on a Monday morning. We were greeted by Pickle Elementary cafeteria manager Oleydis Padilla and her staff, already hard at work organizing and packing breakfast-in-the-classroom for the school’s more than 600 students. Soft-sided bags and coolers were set…
Attention school breakfast fans! It’s time to register for our Tuesday, November 1 webinar, “Cycle 4 Breakfast-in-the-Classroom Funding Available” to learn more about how to apply for grant funds from the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom. With generous funding from the Walmart Foundation, we have $7.5 million in grant money to distribute in the…
With National School Lunch Week in the rearview mirror, we’re turning our attention back to all things breakfast-in-the-classroom! We have opened up the application period for Cycle 4 of the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant, and many of you have already reached out to us about implementing BIC in your school or district.…
