Last July we brought you the inside scoop from the 2013 Fuel Up to Play 60 Ambassador Summit, held in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sixty-seven student ambassadors and fifty program advisors from across the country gathered together, where for five days they participated in fun, team-building exercises, leadership activities, and brainstorming sessions on how to keep…
Fuel Up to Play 60 is getting the New Year off to a healthy start with their new “Team Up!” contest for Program Advisors and Ambassadors. The best part—the contest is as easy as taking a photograph! Simply snap a creative photo and include a catchy caption to enter! The contest is currently open, and…
Each month, our staff reads hundreds of media reports on the subject of school nutrition. We curate our favorites in a monthly blog post we call, “In the News.” Highlighting positive stories about the great things going on in school cafeterias helps us in many ways: providing inspiration, connecting school nutrition professionals from across the…
Part Two “A Wellness Wake-up Call,” originally appeared, as one article, in the November 2013 issue of School Nutrition Magazine. Beyond Breakfast blogger Christina Uticone authored the piece, which is presented here in two parts. Read part one here. Strategies & Solutions When it comes to implementing any wellness policy, stakeholder engagement is crucial, which…
Part One “A Wellness Wake-up Call,” originally appeared, as one article, in the November 2013 issue of School Nutrition Magazine. Beyond Breakfast blogger Christina Uticone authored the piece, which is presented here in two parts. “Serving school breakfast—especially through alternative options such as breakfast in the classroom and grab ‘n’ go—is possibly the easiest, most…
Here at Beyond Breakfast we are always on the lookout for great school breakfast resources, and we love to share them with our readers. In recent weeks we have written about The Wellness Impact Report, SNF’s Webinar Wednesdays® series, and the SNF/National Dairy Council School Breakfast Case Study collaboration. Today we are going to highlight…
We love to share school breakfast news with you on our Facebook and Twitter feeds, but this week there were just too many great stories to share to do it one at a time—we had to round them up in one place! First, we heard from FRAC and NAESPF, who reported that principals across the…
By now our readers know how much we love a great Fuel Up to Play 60 contest—they are so much fun, and the prizes are always so amazing! The latest collaboration between Fuel Up to Play 60 and Quaker is called “Make Your Move,” and the prize for this one will make you sit up…
In the months since the Wellness Impact Report was released, we have been even more keenly aware of some of the exciting, creative things school nutrition professionals are doing to help the students in their schools make “the learning connection.” The learning connection is a central tenet of the report, which posits that healthy school…
It’s hard to believe that September has already passed us by! Now that the 2013-14 school year is in full swing we are seeing so many positive, exciting stories about what’s going on in schools around the country—we had to share a few with you! First, we want to remind you that there are funding…
