Show of hands – who is starting the new school year with breakfast-in-the-classroom? Whether you’re launching a pilot program, or you’re adding schools to your thriving BIC program, we wanted to share some of the latest news and resources we love to help you plan, implement, and manage your breakfast after the bell program. As…
Where does your state rank in school breakfast performance? Find out in the most recent School Breakfast Scorecard from our partners at Food Research & Action Center. Use the scorecard to track school breakfast trends nationally and to compare school breakfast participation and service by state. Here is a quick summary of key data points…
Are you ready for National School Breakfast Week? It’s time to “Start Your Engines” and prepare to celebrate all the great things about school breakfast, March 4-8, 2019. We look forward to #NSBW every year, because it gives us the opportunity to celebrate and elevate an important program that feeds more than fourteen million students…
One big lesson we took from Attendance Matters Month was the importance of supporting data. When you are trying to bring stakeholders on board to support your effort—whether it’s improving attendance or implementing breakfast-in-the-classroom—data-driven arguments are crucial to your success. Each stakeholder group has their own lens through which to view your program, and each…
When it comes to marketing breakfast-in-the-classroom, we recommend listening to the experts—in this case, two Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant recipients. Today we’re going to share some of the simple, effective marketing strategies our BIC grantees swear by for breakfast-in-the-classroom success. Incentivize It! Contests, prizes, limited time offers, exclusive opportunities—get students excited about…
We’re so excited to celebrate National School Lunch Week! This year’s #NSLW18 theme is “Lots 2 Love” and we’ll be spending the week of October 15-19, talking all things #SchoolLunch. There is #Lots2Love about school lunch and we want to know: How is your school celebrating NSLW 2018? We have a few suggestions, plus resources…
Here is something you might not know about chronic absenteeism in the United States: in school year 2013-14 seven million students were chronically absent nationwide. “Chronic absence” is defined as missing ten percent or more days of school for any reason; both excused and unexcused absences and suspensions. According to Attendance Works: Children living in…
With just a few weeks until the end of the school year, it’s time to start thinking about “what’s next” for your school nutrition program. Whether you want to implement summer feeding, plan a breakfast-in-the-classroom pilot for next fall, or catch up on your school nutrition reading we have resources to keep you busy all…
Happy National Nutrition Month! We’re excited to celebrate the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits this month along with our friends at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics! This year’s National Nutrition Month theme is “Go Further with Food” because: “[W]hether it’s starting the day off right…
Our partners at the Food Research and Action Center have released their latest School Breakfast Scorecard for school year 2016-17, just in time for National School Breakfast Week, March 5-9. While the data shows school breakfast participation continues to grow, the rate of growth has slowed which means there is plenty of room for improvement.…
