No Kid Hungry’s Center for Best Practices has resources that can help you and your district or organization transition smoothly back to school and make sure meals are reaching students.
This resource showcases practical, district-tested strategies to increase breakfast participation among high school students. It highlights successful approaches shared by school nutrition directors from across the country. The resource reflects the real-world challenges and solutions districts are navigating today.
We pulled together some of No Kid Hungry’s most useful school breakfast resources in one place, including tools to promote breakfast, strengthen implementation, engage students, and increase participation.
Making sure your students, families, teachers, community, and staff know about your district’s transition to Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is critical to its success. This toolkit provides school nutrition departments with strategies and tips to effectively communicate about CEP and the availability of free school meals for all students. The toolkit also has downloadable and customizable social media graphics, banners, posters and more for you to use to spread the word about free school meals for all students in your district. If your state requires alternative income forms, check out No Kid Hungry’s Alternative Income Forms: What They Are, Why They’re Important, and How They’re Collected.
Marketing is one of the most effective tools for increasing participation in school meals. This toolkit was created to help you get the word out to students and families about school meals. It includes both ready to use and customizable social media assets to help you quickly and easily communicate with students and families. No social media? No problem! The graphics and sample language can also be used in newsletters, on flyers, or in emails.
Visit our School Meals Design Guide website to access tools that school food and nutrition teams can use to make meal programs more student-centered.
After all, when it comes to school supplies, nutritious school meals are as important to students’ learning as notebooks and pencils.
