The SNA call featured eight school
food service directors who described how various HHFKA provisions have negatively impacted their programs.
In the meantime, if you're a current or former SNA member who would like to join the 86
food service directors who've spoken out against SNA's legislative agenda, you can sign this version of the open letter, which has been slightly edited to address the upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
She expresses the same concerns as many
food service directors who would rather not see school lunch become a welfare program.
Winners will also receive technical assistance from AASA staff, and superintendents and
food service directors who have a history of successfully implementing alternative breakfast strategies.
This week you will have the opportunity to read interviews from the teachers, principals, administrators, and
food service directors who work tirelessly and understand the need for increasing participation, decreasing barriers, and raising awareness of school breakfast programs in our nation's schools.
The KSHFP surveyed 489 school nutrition directors from across the country about their implementation of the new standards as of the 2014 - 15 school year, then shared their responses with a panel of 11 expert
food service directors who offered their own insights and recommendations.
I have heard from
food service directors who support the standards, whose schools were early adopters — and are certainly among the 95 % that are in full compliance — that they encounter problems in implementation that interfere with achievement of the underlying goal (healthier food, healthier kids).
KRS 158.852 (2005) requires each school district to appoint
a food service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food service program in the district.
Using the tasting to introduce and build support for «envelop - pushing» school lunches will hopefully mean winning over even the pickiest elementary and middle school kids, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's
food service director who also creates the recipes.
We also were instrumental — along with a newly hired
food services director who shares our views — in removing flavored milk, sugary cereals and breakfast treats like Pop - Tarts and Giant Goldfish Grahams from the menu.
Just the other day I heard a great story about
a food service director who had resisted change for years — and responded angrily and defensively to any criticism of her menus.
Not exact matches
The Salvation Army's
director for community
services, Tony Daniels said: «Staff and volunteers at our churches and social centres across the UK have seen growing numbers of individuals and families on low incomes
who are struggling to put
food on the table or keep a roof over their heads.
By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school
food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students
who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more
One of the 19 past SNA presidents
who signed the letter is Dora Rivas, MS, RDN, SNS and Executive
Director of Dallas ISD's
Food & Child Nutrition
Services.
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Who qualifies: K - 12 school
food service directors or school administrators Application deadline: March 11, 2018 Full details, criteria, and application [external link]
MSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school
food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students
who come through the lunch line without the ability to pay.
Ron Patera,
who oversees
food services as the school system's finance
director, said in a statement, «Ms. Heaps and I are both in support of providing nutritious and safe meals to Elizabeth's students so they have every opportunity to enhance their academic performance.
Around that same time, D.C. Public Schools hired a new
food services director, Jeffrey Mills,
who scoured the entire Chartwells menu item - by - item, removing the flavored milk and processed treats and replacing many of the familiar re-heated lunch items.
«After breakfast, some of them will just get back in line and wait two hours for lunch,» said Francine Washington, a Stateway Gardens resident
who is
director of the CHA's summer
food service program.
I recently spent 90 minutes in a meeting discussing
food allergies and how it impacts students at DU with the Vice Chancellor of Campus Life, Dr. Lili Rodriguez, Dining
Services Resident District Manager, Ira Simon, and the DU Communications
Director, Elise Chester (
who has a two year old son with severe peanut allergies!)
«They (students) do n`t seem to care for the casserole - type
foods any more, the hearty meals, so we have to cater to those needs, «says Phillips,
who recently was named acting
director of
food services for Chicago Public Schools.
Although they aren't known as great tippers, students
who participate in the district's innovative lunch program give high marks to
food services director Judy Donofrio and her staff of 55.
«It's excluding a group of students
who need
services we're providing,» said Toni Fisher,
food service director for Evanston Township High School.
side district) as a head cook, so my boss, the district's
food service director, deals with more of the suggestions and changes, but I do assist with menu planning and have served on district committees, and do encounter the suggestions from parents
who might be eating with a child (may I admit I cringe most of all when the sentence starts with «I don't know why you don't just...»)?
Readers
who are new to this blog may not be aware of a unique
service offered by TLT — «Ask the Mystery
Food Services Director.»
By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school
food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students
who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more
«Studies show that students
who eat breakfast at school also have a better attendance rate and tend to behave better,» said Scott Wolfe
Food Service Director, at Southern.
Hunger Free Vermont works closely with
food service directors throughout the state
who often cite the limited time allowed for students to eat as the biggest contributor to
food waste.
I just came home from a meeting with our
food service advisory board — a group of parents and teachers
who are working with our
food service director to improve what our kids are eating.
In this post from the Let's Move Blog, author Jennifer Seymour talks about Chef Tim Cipriano, the Executive
Director of
Food Services at New Haven Public Schools
who was able to get salad bars into almost all of his schools this year.
Nancy Weiss
Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA) Public Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave cam
Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA) Public Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy
food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave cam
food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students
who otherwise might leave campus.
Oneida County Youth Bureau
Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community
service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children
who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting
food, preparing and serving meals at local
food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.
Members of the coordinated school health teams include an administrator, guidance counselor, school psychologist, social worker, physical education teacher, school nurse, school engineer,
food service manager /
director, health teacher or other health
services provider, student (where age - appropriate), community partner representative, parent / guardian, student support staff, and those
who are involved in other Wellness and Prevention Office programs.
We expect more than 1,400 education leaders to attend, including superintendents; assistant superintendents;
directors of special education, finance, pupil personnel,
food service, communications, curriculum and assessment; principals; assistant principals; counselors; and other public education leaders
who play a key role in shaping education policy and preparing our students for college and careers in today's world.
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food bank customers and customers
who have lost pets.
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