Learn strategies to boost student selection of food items, enhance student dining experience by improving the cafeteria atmosphere, and how to cultivate positive interactions between staff and students.

Learn about special events, hosting a student advisory committee, and ways to receive student feedback.

Learn how to determine your school meals brand, discover ways to use social and non-social media methods to promote your school meals, and strategies to market and promote your program.

Learn about identifying your customers, evaluation customer satisfaction, and skills to provide excellent customer service.

Learn about the different types of communications, personal communication styles, sending effective messages, barriers to communication, and communicating with confidence are topics explored in this course. This course applies these topics to relatable school nutrition-specific scenarios.

The Nutritious, Delicious, Wisconsin videos were developed to promote the Harvest of the Month program . Each video features one Wisconsin produced food, highlighting the agricultural history, nutrition information, and other fun facts about the product. The videos can be used in the classroom; however, they were specifically developed for …

These culinary training lesson plans can be used by school food service directors or managers to train staff on knife skills, standardized recipes, mise en place, measuring techniques, and yield tests. Each lesson plan includes a video designed to help users better understand each process.

These posters can be used to promote your Harvest of the Month program to school staff, families, and students. The posters each feature a Wisconsin agricultural product and can be used to promote local produce in the serving line, cafeteria, or classroom. They could also be used as images on …

These menu images can be used to promote your Harvest of the Month program to school staff, families, and students. The images can be used on your printed menu, social media posts, newsletter, or website.

These taste test ballots may be used to collect feedback from students. Each ballot is designed specifically for the intended age group.

The Nutritious, Delicious, Wisconsin Toolkit provides information to help school nutrition professionals implement a Wisconsin Harvest of the Month program at their school. The toolkit contains recipes featuring Wisconsin agricultural products, information on local procurement, promotional materials, and educational resources. The Wisconsin Harvest of the Month program is intended to …

The local food learning activity sheets can be used to educate students about foods that are found in school lunch and breakfast menus. The learning activity sheets provide physical activities, learning activities and taste testing activities that can be implemented in classrooms to teach students about 12 different foods.

The food fact sheet posters can be used to educate students about foods that are used in the school lunch and breakfast program. Food fact sheet posters can be on display in the cafeteria or anywhere throughout the school building.

The menu posters were designed for school food service directors and managers to be utilized as menu posters to assist students in selecting meal choices that make a reimbursable meal. In particular, the Build a Healthy Breakfast menu poster is designed to encourage school food service staff to print and …

The guide to procuring local foods will help school food service directors procure local food for their school nutrition program. The guide will help determine where and when to purchase local foods, the amount to purchase, food safety practices to consider when using local foods and how to apply the …

These lesson plans are intended for food service directors or managers who want to train staff on how to prepare twelve different recipes. Each lesson plan contains tips on preparing the recipe, suggestions on training school nutrition staff to make the recipe, and evaluation questions to consider when incorporating the …

The benefits of family meals include: the development of positive eating habits, creation of stronger parent-child bonds, and better school performance. EAT Family Style supports child care providers with quick, easy, and fun ways to make mealtimes healthy, enjoyable and less stressful for everyone. Together we can all create memorable …

The USDA Recipe Standardization Process module on School Nutrition Toolbox is designed to help School Nutrition Programs, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program operators to develop standardized recipes. Learning Objectives Participants will: 1. Define “standardized recipe.” 2. Identify benefits of using standardized recipes. 3. Recognize …

This toolkit provides resources and support for agriculture education, nutrition education, food systems, hands-on applications, and community engagement within the Agriculture & Nutrition Education pillar of farm to school.

The school gardens toolkit is a resource that provides support and information for ways to use school gardens, build support, determine school garden readiness, incorporate outdoor & indoor gardens, when and how to harvest, garden maintenance, benefits of school gardens, and more!

This toolkit provides a general introduction to local procurement, which includes the benefits of local procurement and local foods, an overview of Indiana Grown for Schools, and definitions to more easily understand the technicalities and logistics of procurement. Broken up into four different chapters, the Buyer and Grower sections discuss …

Harvesting Montana Recipes toolkit provides 6 recipes which feature locally grown foods to Montana schools and communities. Recipes are provided in 6, 50, and 100 servings to allow for use in both early childhood education and K12 school food service. Target audience is School Food Service Directors, teachers and community …

Montana's Harvest of the Month Recipe Cards. Six recipes which feature Montana grown foods. Nutrition education for classroom teachers, after school programs, and early childhood education programs. Target audience is teachers.