Donna Martin (Ed.S, RD, LD, SNS) is an active SNA member, and recently completed a three-year term on the School Nutrition Foundation’s Board of Directors. In February 2016, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics announced that Martin was selected to serve as president-elect of their Board of Directors, including a year as president of the…
On Wednesday, June 12, 2014, the School Nutrition Foundation attended the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom Virginia School Breakfast Summit to explore the need to connect more children in Virginia to breakfast. Among the more than fifty attendees was Virginia’s first lady Dorothy McAuliffe, who spoke on the importance of a healthy breakfast for…
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…
Although National School Breakfast Week is behind us, National Nutrition Month continues with a full calendar of awareness-raising nutrition highlights! We want to express our thanks and appreciation to everyone who participated in our National School Breakfast Week celebration. On the blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter, we made new friends and new connections to…
We recently sat down with Amy Dennes, Regional Assistant Superintendent, Jefferson County Public Schools (KY), to discuss what breakfast-in-the-classroom means from an administrative perspective. As we continue to celebrate National School Breakfast Week, we hope you will continue to check back with us here at Beyond Breakfast—and connect with us on Facebook and Twitter—to help spread…
Click here to read part one of our interview with Claudie, which focuses on her marketing and promotional efforts for breakfast-in-the-classroom. BB: Give us an overview of your program, and your marketing approach as a whole. We have an extensive marketing program. We also…
The assessment process is an important part of the breakfast-in-the-classroom journey. Every school is unique, with a different set of needs based on factors like enrollment, school size and layout, equipment needs, and of course, stakeholder engagement. We sat down with Nadine Doetterl, SNS of NMD School Food Service, who has extensive experience implementing breakfast-in-the-classroom,…
We invite you to join us on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 for an important webinar exploring the ways in which teamwork can help you develop successful food allergy management in your school. The School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) will be presenting this webinar in partnership with the National Peanut Board. The webinar is entitled “Teamwork is…
One of the biggest challenges we face when we are introducing the concept of breakfast-in-the-classroom is dispelling commonly-held misconceptions about the program. Addressing these misconceptions opens up the channels of communication between potential stakeholders; helps build relationships and coalitions, and results in the implementation of successful breakfast-in-the-classroom programs. Some of the misconceptions we hear most…
Part Two of our interview with Memphis City Schools’ Coordinator of Nutrition Services Alexsis Caston. Don’t miss Part One to learn about how breakfast-in-the-classroom got started in Memphis! BB: Now you are moving into an expansion phase. What is that going to entail for you? How many schools are involved in the breakfast-in-the-classroom expansion? AC:…