Research Topic: How are other schools implementing and marketing (USDA) school breakfast programs? Annotated Bibliography, Group 2 Action for Healthy Kids. (2010). School Breakfast Expansion Grants 2009-2010. Retrieved from http://actionfor HealthyKids.org The above document gives you statistics in multiple states on the School Breakfast Program. With the help of Kellogg s Corporate Citizenship Fund, Action for healthy Kids awarded 41 school in 17 states. To be eligible for funding, schools have to have at least 50% if their student population eligible for free reduced price meals. Action for Healthy Kids. (2009). New grants to help schools boost breakfast program participation. Retrieved from http://www.actionforhealthykids.org The following source covers percentages in the increase of participation in the School Breakfast Program. According to FRAC, 8.5 million low-income children participated in the national School Breakfast Program last school year. While that s an increase of four percent over the previous school year, the program still misses more than half of America s eligible low-income children. California Department of Education. (2009, 15 October). Feed More Kids: Improve Program Participation, Fees More Kids for School Breakfast Success. Retrieved from http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/he/documents/feedmorebrkfst.pdf
Portable document format that shows the research the department of Education in California has done. It lists why breakfast is important and how to make it a priority, as well as offering ways to increase participation. Each section gives a myth and a fact about breakfast and one being that fewer students do to the nurse s office during the day when breakfast is provided at the school. Resources are also given with contact information. California Food Policy Advocates. (2009). School Breakfast = Brain Power. Strategies to Increase Participation. Retrieved from http://eatbettermovemore.org/sa/documents/csnabreakfastpresentation- January2009.pdf The following document gives you strategies and statistics on children participating in the School Breakfast Program. Nationally 44.6% of low-income students eat breakfast at school. The increase in participation of kids eating breakfast has increased. Department of Agriculture. (2009). State and National agriculture officials celebrate school breakfast week. Retrieved from http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/news/press/2009/approved/press090305/html In Newark, NJ, Harriet Tubman Blue Ribbons School celebrates National School Breakfast Week. The state of New Jersey provides cash subsidies for each meal served at the schools. Harriet Tubman has a 97% participation rate. The national percentage is only 10%. The provide students with free breakfasts that give a quarter of the recommended dietary allowance for protein, vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, and calories.
Cornwell, Lisa. (2009, 4 February) US schools pushing breakfast programs. The Associated Press. Retrieved from LexisNexis Academic database. This article is about how many schools are using different kinds of incentives to try to get more students to participate in the breakfast program. The Cincinnati district holds raffles, giving away gift cards and ipods, and the Milwaukee district is now offering breakfast foods in their school vending machines. As for Cleveland, the number of students they ve had participate has gone from 150 to 900 students since November because they are delivering bagged meals to the classrooms. Free breakfast plans go unused. Most qualified pupils miss out. (2010, January 3). Birmingham News (Alabama), p. 13-A 122 295. Retrieved February 15, 2010, from LexisNexis Academic database. In this article, it says that in Alabama, about 179,000 students received free or reduced-price breakfast last year, about 49 percent of those in the lunch program. Through the federal School Breakfast Program, the children of families living on 130 percent of the poverty rate or less are eligible for free breakfast at school. Many schools send information home to parents and even call them individually to ensure they are aware of the breakfast program. Howard Weiss-Tisman. (2009, December 7). Free school breakfast rates jump. Retrieved from LexisNexis Academic database. Article that provides information on Vermont s participation increase in school breakfast participation. They saw the largest participation increase last year and moved from 9 th to3rd on
the national participation list. The schools have worked to increase participation by putting more resources in their breakfast menus but the biggest cause of the increased participation on the article states, is because of an appropriation approved in 2008 by their legislature. Kids Count. (2009) Children Participating in School Breakfast. Retrieved from http://www.rikidscount.org/matriarch/documents/09_factbook_indicator15.pdf The following source gives you statistics, percentages, and the significance of the School Breakfast Program in the state of Rhode Island. Rhode Island is ranked 37 th in the country for participation in school breakfast. Their state law requires all public schools to provide students with access to school breakfast. Maine Department of Education. (2006, October 07). National school breakfast program. Retrieved from http://www.maine.gov/education/sfs/nsbp.htm. This is the portion of Maine s education site that is designated to the National School Breakfast Program. Maine does not charge for breakfast to reduced students and private schools cannot charge more than $.30. The site continues down to give more information about the success that Maine has had. Participation in the program doubled in the last ten years. The site provides a chart that gives the minimum serving sizes for all ages that participate in the program. The site also answers some questions that have been asked by parents and displayed on the site for helpful information to other people that are seeking advice.
Maryland State Department of Education. Grab n Go Breakfast Programs. Retrieved from http://www.mdhungersolutions.org/pdf/grab-n-go_breakfast_factsheet.pdf This document explains the Grab n Go Program of Maryland, the benefits, and how it has increased participation for their schools. They have bags of breakfast foods for kids to grab quickly and eat before or even in class. One success story is also given stating that the average number of breakfasts served daily, increased from 41 per day in 2005, to 175 per day in 2008. Clean up is also easy because they have special trash containers for the kids to put their trash in when eating in class or on the go. National Food Service Management Institute, the University of Mississippi. (n.d.). Promoting the School Breakfast Program. Retrieved from http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/nfsmi/education/satellite/ss34/partic.pdf The following source gives you information on how to increase children taking part in the school breakfast program. Things such as a cereal box contest, backwards day, and story time are ideas of increasing kids to eat breakfast. The reason for the ideas is because they want to make the cafeteria a place to be. New Jersey Department of Agriculture. (2006). School breakfast program. Retrieved from http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/fn/childadult/school_breakfast.html. The site provides the reader with the objective that New Jersey has in order to get breakfast to students. It also gives thorough instructions on what the requirements are and how to get into the program. This is helpful for there are some people that do not know much about the program that
could be eligible. New Jersey also keeps record and vouchers that are filed once a month and are available for administrative review. Robinson, D.W. (2008, April 23). Breakfast in Schools Being Cut. Palm Beach Post (Florida), p.4a. News; Local. Retrieved February 15, 2010, from LexisNexis Academic database. In this article, it says that some counties in Florida already offer school-wide free breakfast in schools. 80% or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced price-meals. The state does match federal dollars for free lunch programs, but if a school district opts to provide breakfast, the state doesn t intend to pay for it. School Nutrition Association, General Mills Foodservice, National Dairy Council. Fuel Your Imagination. Retrieved from http://docs.schoolnutrition.org/meetingsandevents/nsbw2008/fuel%20toolkit.pdf This is a creative document that is a toolkit for National School Breakfast Week. The document explains the Fuel Your Imagination Campaign, what Breakfast week is, the facts, why breakfast is important, and gives many ideas as to how to increase participation. They use a space theme to help the kids learn about nutrition. There are activities that can be printed off for the kids to do. There was also a creative writing contest for the students, grades 1-12, that they could participate in, and the 3 winners had their stories illustrated and put on the official website for all to see. Scott Waldman. (2009, May 26). Food For Thought in School Breakfast Study. Retrieved from LexisNexis Academic database.
Composition on Troy elementary schools in New York increasing participation in their breakfast program and the benefits it creates. Breakfast is an important meal for it keeps students more alert during the day. Waldman states that participation has increased because of offering the meal in high traffic areas like the lobby. They use the grab and go system as well, which is a loaded cart of food that kids can take from into their classrooms. United States Department of Agriculture. (2009, 6 April). School Breakfast Program. Retrieved from http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/breakfast/expansion/expansionstrategies.htm. Composition by the Food and Nutrition Service giving a variety of ways to expand participation in the School Breakfast Programs. The article lists and explains 5 different ways: Provision 2, eliminating reduced price charges for breakfast, direct certification, creative menu ideas, and alternative service methods. Provision 2 is just allowing any child to have breakfast at no cost. United States Department of Agriculture. School Success Stories. Retrieved from http://teamnutrition.usda.gov/success.html This web page gives a list of 23 different states that you can click on to read their success stories on how they increased participation in some parts. An elementary school in Oregon has poster contests every season for a featured item. Prices are awarded to each entry and the posters hung in the cafeteria, but when the item is served during lunch, their participation usually increases. Valero, M. (2007, September 20). School Breakfast Grows in Student Popularity. Highlands Today (FL). Retrieved from Newspaper Source database. Discourse of Highlands County Schools in Florida and their breakfast programs. Valero comments in the article that Avon Park School had created new ways to increase participation by
bringing breakfast to places were the kids like to congregate, like the patio. Also bringing breakfast to kids in the classroom has worked as well for the schools, improving student s performances every day. Wisconsin Department of Public Ins. (2009, December 20). Wisconsin School Breakfast Challenge SY 2008-2009. Retrieved from http://dpi.wi.gov/fns/brkchlng.html. Article page on Wisconsin s breakfast challenge to increase participation. The article give the winners of the challenge and answers questions about the challenge. The goal was to start a breakfast program, if not already done so, or increase participation by 50% in existing programs. Six schools/districts did very well and increased participation by at least 59% or higher.