National School Breakfast week was celebrated with new breakfast menu items and a Friday raffle at schools throughout Cherry Creek School District. New menu items include: an omelet, yogurt parfait (favorite of the students) and an English Muffin Breakfast Sandwich. It was my honor to participate in Cherry Creek’s activities through a breakfast visit to Holly Ridge [...]
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
Cynthia Baucom knows the importance of getting breakfast to children. As the Food Service Director for Fremont Re-2 School District, she spends her days ensuring all children in Fremont have access to balanced meals while at school. Both elementaries (Fremont and Penrose) and Fremont Middle School serve Breakfast in the Classroom.While their systems are not [...]
Four Corners Breakfast
Posted by Amy Hartline, Breakfast Consultant in Mancos, Co. For kids like Douglas, starting the day with breakfast at school makes all the difference! Six year old Douglas began his morning at Mancos Elementary School with two sandwiches, two cartons of milk and two servings of fruit. He could hardly hold a conversation because he [...]
DPS Kicks Off National School Breakfast Week
As a Child Nutrition Associate specializing in school breakfast program expansion, I don’t typically see others who are more aflutter about school breakfast successes than I am. However, Friday was an exciting day for me as I witnessed a crowded cafeteria bellow boisterous cheers and perform lively dances to celebrate such a success. The assemblage [...]
Minimizing Challenges to Serving Breakfast in the Classroom
The Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) program remains a beneficial method to increase attendance and academic performance, build school community, decrease tardiness and lower the number of visits to the nurse before lunch, but it is not without its challenges. For six weeks now I have been learning the ropes of the School Breakfast Program [...]
Food for Thought: Breakfast is Part of a Healthy Lifestyle
While doing research on school breakfast programs, I came across some “food for thought.” I always assumed that everyone understood the importance of breakfast, but, as with most of my assumptions, I was wrong. My assumption comes from health officials and good ol’ mom who call breakfast the most important meal of the day. I grew-up with this [...]
Project Citizen: Students Study Smart Start Funding
When asked to develop a project for Project Citizen, a civic engagement competition, Mr. Diehl’s class at Fairview Elementary School in Denver, decided to look at Smart Start Funding. They called in a number of experts, including Leo Lesh from DPS Food and Nutrition Services and Rich Jones from the Bell Policy Center. I was [...]
