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Expanding Breakfast
Studies have shown that students who eat a nutritious breakfast are likely to improve performance in the classroom and have reduced behavioral problems. Breakfast also helps to combat childhood obesity and encourages healthy eating. In fact, children who don't eat breakfast miss 25 percent of their daily nutrition.
The key to increasing breakfast consumption is to make the morning meal more convenient with Breakfast in the Classroom, Grab and Go Breakfast or Breakfast After First Period.
Breakfast in the Classroom is the most popular Expanding Breakfast program, with participation levels at 95 percent of enrollment. Grab and Go Breakfast provides meals as children get off the bus, or places meal carts in strategic locations. Breakfast After First Period provides a health snack after the day starts. Click here for ideas on incorporating a breakfast program.
Read what Expanding Breakfast program participants are saying...
- In Itawamba County, Miss., principals at three schools reported that their discipline problems dropped 50 percent after their schools started Breakfast in the Classroom. The district's food service manager initially started the program in one elementary school and it grew to three schools as meal participation increased 27 percent - all without having to increase school nutrition staff.
- In Newberry County, S.C., a food service director opted to try Breakfast in the Classroom. Over two school years, breakfast participation at 11 schools jumped 64 percent, from 2,552 to 4,191 breakfasts. Two out of three students in Newberry County now eat breakfast at school.
- At Marietta City Schools in Georgia, a school nutrition director has seen breakfast participation increase 27 percent over two years using a combination of Breakfast in the Classroom and Grab and Go Breakfast. Additionally, teachers have noticed a big improvement in students' attentiveness and classroom participation.
Like what you see? View more success stories and key findings on school nutrition.
For more information on Expanding Breakfast programs and increasing your school's breakfast participation, view our resources page.
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