Assessment is the first step in identifying opportunities for improvement and starting a planning process for making schools even healthier. This page provides a summary of 5 different assessment tools that school food service professionals, school administrators, and program leaders …
Blue Zones® is a health and wellness initiative founded by Dan Buettner. He travelled all over the world researching communities. The areas that he found to be the healthiest with the greatest longevity he named the ‘Blue Zones.’
The Blue …
While evidence about the benefits of eating local food continues to build, farm-to-school endeavors present challenges when considering unique needs of school foodservice operations. Many districts encounter a variety of barriers to incorporating locally grown food in school cafeteria menus. …
Whether you’re doing a 3-minute TV interview or a 30-minute Back-to-School night presentation, creating a simple action plan can mean the difference between communication success and failure. Taking a few minutes to think about your audience and plan your key …
We’ve all grown up hearing, “Eat your veggies!” but many of us never stop to think why, beyond a vague understanding that they are healthy. Most of us would hardly call it a meal without a hearty serving of meat …
With an estimated 55 million students in the US attending schools from preschool to 12th grade, schools are in an ideal position to have a significant impact on the health and well-being of children. The face of school nutrition …
The lunchroom can be viewed as the ‘learning laboratory’ for nutrition and health lessons. For this reason, it is important to know what is going on in the lunchroom to ensure that it does everything it can to support healthy …
Your school’s Student Nutrition Action Committee (SNAC) is a great resource for students interested in nutrition, but how can you make sure students join the club? Spread the word and recruit new members by following these simple tips!
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You’ve begun planning, organizing, and recruiting members for your club, but all school activities usually require a teacher’s supervision. Once you’ve created your Student Nutrition Action Committee (SNAC), how do you go about finding a club moderator? There are a …
A Student Nutrition Action Committee (SNAC) gives students who are interested in promoting healthy habits the opportunity to work within the school to improve eating habits. Students who participate in SNAC can educate their classmates about proper nutrition and work …
