We have a winner! The School Nutrition Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 recipient of the SNF/Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant is the Warrior Run School District, located in Turbotville, Pennsylvania. You are going to get to know the staff at Warrior Run, including their School Food Service Supervisor, Renee Frederick. We will…
Kim Pankowski is the breakfast-in-the-classroom Field Specialist for School District U-46, Elgin (IL). We sat down with Kim on our recent visit to Harriet Gifford Elementary School to discuss the first year of BIC in Elgin, and what’s next for the program. Thank you for sharing your insights with us, Kim! Beyond Breakfast: Kim, tell us…
A guest post by School Nutrition Foundation Senior Program Manager, Paula Zdanowicz, MPH Last week SNF visited Harriet Gifford Elementary School in Elgin, a suburb of Chicago, for a Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom media event. School District U-46 has experienced great success with expanding its school breakfast participation. Since the beginning of BIC, participation…
We are all rested up from the March whirlwind that was National School Breakfast Week, and we are ready to embark upon another celebration—two, in fact! We have two upcoming opportunities to celebrate the special school nutrition professionals in your life: School Nutrition Employee Week, which runs May 6-10, and School Lunch Superhero Day which…
Yesterday SNF was back in Charleston, SC to see school breakfast in action. The last time we were here, we visited Angel Oak Elementary for our media event in November 2012. We met up with Walter Campbell, director of foodservice, to visit Garrett Academy and EB Ellington Elementary. Our first stop was Garrett Academy, one…
We recently drove down to Guilford County, NC to check in with our PBIC school sites. Together with food service director Jim Faggione, we visited Sedgefield Elementary School, Welborn Middle School, Parkview Elementary School and Smith High School. Parkview Elementary – coffee house chill in the AM The first thing we noticed at Parkview was…
Did you miss our recent blog post on the Winston Industries Equipment Award Grant? The application period is OPEN and we urge you to apply to recieve ten new pieces of equipment for your school kitchen facility. We recently sat down to talk with Deborah Taylor (RD/LD, SNS), the Director of Shawnee School Nutrition Services at…
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…
Breakfast-in-the-classroom is both a solution to problems (like hunger and obesity) and a way to enhance the school day through a shared meal with teachers and classmates. During our National School Breakfast Week celebration we have heard from so many of you–through the blog, on Facebook, and on Twitter–about all the varied reasons you support…
Today we are talking to Sandy Huisman, Director of Food & Nutrition Management in Des Moines Public Schools (IA). Des Moines joined the Partners for Breakfast-in-the-Classroom project in SY2012-13, rolling out the program in twelve elementary schools at the beginning of the school year. We asked Sandy some of the questions we hear the most from…
