The SNA call featured eight
school food service directors who described how various HHFKA provisions have negatively impacted their programs.
Not exact matches
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
She expresses the same concerns as many
food service directors who would rather not see
school lunch become a welfare program.
«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.
«It's excluding a group of students
who need
services we're providing,» said Toni Fisher,
food service director for Evanston Township High
School.
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.
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 thi
Schools who was able to get salad bars into almost all of his
schools thi
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
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
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.