FRAC President Jim Weill cites breakfast - in - the - classroom specifically as one strategy that can
help increase breakfast participation; Community Eligibility Provision expansion is another.
If you are looking for ways to
increase breakfast participation at your school, we invite you to try these new «Fuel Up to Play 60 Breakfast Plays,» which are brought to you through a partnership between the School Nutrition Association and our friends at the National Dairy Council.
American Dairy Association Mideast offered a Fuel Up to Play 60 grant for every school that I wanted to apply for a salad bar for, so I tried to think of a way I could
increase breakfast participation using FUTP60 money at the same time.
A proven way to get more students to eat breakfast, the Breakfast in the Classroom Play charges students with creating a system to
increase breakfast participation by delivering reimbursable meals to classrooms for students before or during class.
Havelock Middle School has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program, served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to
increase breakfast participation in schools.
Developed specifically to instruct teachers and other school professionals about the impact hunger has on learning, the NEA Healthy Futures Breakfast in the Classroom Toolkit will help you communicate how BIC can
help increase breakfast participation and address hunger in schools, which in turn can improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students.
According to FRAC's most recent School Breakfast Scorecard, Utah has
increased breakfast participation by 7.7 percent, but it's not enough; they are still 51st in the country, reaching 38 low - income students at breakfast for every 100 at lunch.
After consulting with food services, principals and superintendents, Children's Hunger Alliance recommends best practices to
increase breakfast participation, including:
While there has been a great deal of progress in
increasing breakfast participation, there is still room for improvement.
Check out the Ohio School Breakfast Challenge website for ideas and resources to help you customize your school breakfast program to the needs of your school and
increase breakfast participation, including:
Increasing breakfast participation is an important aspect of school breakfast, and one that we are frequently asked to address here at Beyond Breakfast.
Many of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District, San Antonio Independent School District, Newburgh Enlarged City School District, Newark Public Schools, and Boise School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households because they have broadly implemented the proven strategies to
increase breakfast participation.
Increasing breakfast participation is a goal for many SNA members.
Check out the Ohio School Breakfast Challenge website for ideas and resources to help you customize your school breakfast program to the needs of your school and
increase breakfast participation, including: