It’s only January, but that doesn’t mean you should wait to begin planning your National School Breakfast Week 2018 celebration. We look forward to NSBW every year; it gives us the opportunity to celebrate our favorite school meal of the day, and connect with other school breakfast fans from around the country. This year’s National…
When it comes to moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom, there are a lot of moving parts—literally and figuratively! In addition to working out the delivery method for getting food to the classroom (Line service to-go? Grab-and-Go kiosks? Direct delivery?), it’s important to gather stakeholder support for the program–this means engaging teachers, administrators,…
Dollars and Cents: Budgeting for BIC In 2016, Livingston Parish Public Schools Foodservice Director Sommer Purvis sat in the audience at SNA’s Annual National Conference for a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom presentation called “A Director, a Teacher, and a Principal Walk into a Bar.” She loved the idea of serving her students universal…
Attention, Ohio schools—the Ohio School Breakfast Challenge has been issued! Win recognition for your school or district by demonstrating your collaborative efforts to create, enhance, or expand your School Breakfast Program. Did you know only 36.3 percent of Ohio teens report eating breakfast every day? When it comes to improving school breakfast participation, breakfast-in-the-classroom is…
What do superintendents say about breakfast-in-the-classroom? Here’s a round-up of some of our favorite quotes from the blog–and links to the original articles, of course. “I wanted to explore breakfast-in-the-classroom because I thought we were wasting time in the morning, and even though we were already serving universal breakfast district-wide, a lot of kids weren’t…
“CEP opened up a lot more options for us in terms of breakfast-in-the-classroom. In some places the combination of CEP and BIC helped us go from 20-30 percent participation to 80-90 percent—that’s just a huge, huge difference. One of my schools was even serving more breakfasts than lunch for awhile!” [Read more] Craig Hodge, Clarke County School…
A common refrain we hear when talking about breakfast-in-the-classroom is, “If only there were more freshly-prepared foods!” It’s true that scratch and speed-scratch cooking can be a challenge when menuing for breakfast-in-the-classroom, but it’s not impossible. Looking for more information on scratch and speed-scratch cooking at school breakfast, we registered for a USDA FNS webinar…
Are you attending the School Nutrition Association’s Annual National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia? The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom will be there! If you are interested in learning more about alternative delivery school breakfast models, look for us in Atlanta—we can’t wait to connect with you. Education Sessions Peruse the list of ANC education…
Do you work in a Nebraska school or district with a high free-and-reduced rate student population, but you’re struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast? We can help! The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are currently offering breakfast-in-the-classroom grants in ten target states, including Nebraska and the application period is now OPEN. In…
If you work in a North Carolina 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 North Carolina and the application period is OPEN.…
