School Breakfast
UDIM is committed to assisting schools with promoting and expanding their breakfast programs. State Superintendent Mike Flanagan has issued a challenge to all Michigan Schools to increase their breakfast participation district-wide by 50% by May 2010.
Click here to view the Breakfast Challenge podcast
Click here to view the 2009-10 Michigan School Breakfast Challenge
Learn from school administrators, teachers and foodservice personnel how eating a nutritious school breakfast is helping Michigan kids improve their academic achievement and behavior in school. Video supports MI Dept of Education's Breakfast Challenge which aims to increase by 50% the number of school breakfasts served in Michigan. Click here to view the Michigan School Breakfast Success Stories video.
The Michigan School Breakfast Challenge Award: click here to see the 2008-09 Honor Roll and read the Gold and Silver Award Winning Success Stories. Get started today increasing your breakfast participation for Year 2 of the Challenge.
Use the links below to find information that will help you increase your breakfast participation and maximize federal reimbursement dollars.
Expanding Your School Breakfast Program
Expanding Your School Breakfast Program provides a step-by-step guide to create a breakfast-focused team, explore alternative service methods, design and implement an action plan, and market the program effectively to improve participation and positively impact student health and academic potential. The resource includes downloadable letters to principals, teachers, and parents, a PowerPoint presentation, and other materials to build community support and encourage more students to eat School Breakfast.
Access the Expanding Your School Breakfast Program site at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/Breakfast/expansion/default.htm
Project PA School Breakfast Resources: this link will give you video clips highlighting “creative strategies” used by foodservice directors to improve breakfast participation, links to grab-n-go and breakfast in the classroom resources, Food Research and Action Center, “Got Breakfast Foundation and more. Click here for more breakfast ideas and information.
Expanding Breakfast Program from Nutrition Explorations: Find out how to capture those breakfast skippers by Expanding Breakfast out of the cafeteria and provide more of them with the required one-fourth of the nutrients children should be getting each day.
Breakfast Boost Brainpower Brochure: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This brochure explains why breakfast improves student learning and behavior includes breakfast tips and ideas. For ordering information please call United Dairy Industry of Michigan, 1-800-241-6455 (MILK). Available to Michigan residents only.
Michigan School Breakfast Success Stories: Read what other Michigan schools are doing to increase breakfast participation in their school, find out how they have overcome barriers, costs involved and more. Click here to get started http://mihealthtools.org/schoolsuccess/default.asp?tab=selectstories.
Want to see breakfast in the classroom in action? Click here to see what some Michigan Schools are doing to increase their breakfast participation.