School Breakfast

[Joyce Peters]

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Only One Oakland, Calif. School Offers In-Classroom Breakfast
(New Media America, January 7, 2010)

Melrose Leadership Academy is the only school in the Oakland Unified School District that offers free, in-classroom breakfast. Before the program started, only five or six of the nearly 200 students, the majority of whom are Latino and low-income, took advantage of the morning meal, and 90 percent weren't eating breakfast at all, according to Melrose principal Myra Contreras. Offering in-classroom breakfast has boosted the participation to 85 to 90 percent of students. FRAC's recent School Breakfast Scorecard found that California's low-income school children underutilize the School Breakfast Program, ranking the state 33rd in the nation compared to low-income participation in other states, and Oakland's school district is particularly problematic. In a companion report which examined twenty-five urban school districts, including San Diego, Los Angeles and Oakland, Oakland had the fewest breakfast participants of the three urban areas and was the only district which experienced a decline in numbers. Most public schools in Oakland, many say, don't offer alternatives for early morning breakfast, like in-classroom or second-chance breakfast. "In California, where they've started to offer breakfast in the classroom or second-chance breakfast, you do see a dramatic increase in participation," said Tia Shimada, nutrition policy advocate with California Food Policy Advocates. "This happens for a number of reasons. The main thing is, you are not asking kids to get to school early. If the family has a tight schedule or the child has to ride the bus, they don't necessarily have 10 minutes to spare."

 

Here is a video showing how San Diego’s program works http://old.sandi.net/food/video/breakfast.html

 

 

Joyce Peters, M.S., R.D.

CNN Registered Dietician

Nutrition Services

Oakland Unified School District

900 High Street

Oakland, CA  94601

510.879.1854 Fax 510.879.1779

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Thanks for passing on this article.

I am a big believer in thinking of how we can serve our kids better with school food, whether it's the type of food or the way we serve it.

I've heard of other districts that serve breakfast everyday to every student in the elementary grades - gets everyone off to a wonderful start of the day. Kids can't focus when they've got growling tummies....

I've also heard of districts that swap lunch and recess time - have the kids start out by playing for 15-20 minutes, then the other 15-20 is spent eating their lunch in a more leisurely fashion. This reduces the need for kids to try to hurry up to eat so they can be outside playing or being able to get to certain playground equipment first and ensures that they are more likely to finish their entire meal.

I would love to see if Oakland could turn the traditional models of feeding kids on it's head so that we are doing what is best for the kids, especially in schools with high free /reduced lunch percentages, instead of doing what has just always been done.

Thank you for what everyone has been doing in all facets, though!

jamie @ Cleveland Elem.

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Subject: School Breakfast

[Nancy Deming]

I have heard similar info on the lunch/recess swap.  I would like my daughters elementary, Sequoia, to try this.  The principal says we could try for next year.  She is wondering how to get the kids in from recess to eat...any ideas???  Do we know of other schools that have this in place to see how they wrangle them in?

Nancy Deming
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[tracy tingle]

In answer to Nancy's question about wrangling kids in from recess to lunch, they do this at John Muir Elementary in Berkeley. They have a really great set up and process there where they walk the kids down this path where they are meant to come to silence, wash their hands, walk through the garden, and kitchen into the cafeteria.  They also seem pretty open to having people come and watch the process.  I can't remember the size of the school, but I seem to recall it's fairly small.  Good luck! Tracy Tracy Tingle tracy....@yahoo.com home: 510.528.0508 cell: 510-332-7977 --- On Mon, 1/25/10, Nancy Deming <nancyda...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[Shan]

Hi Nancy,

When my son was at Delta View Elementary in Contra Costa they just rang the bell and they all went into the auditorium to eat lunch; as if they were going back to class.  You might also check with the Berkeley School District for more ideas.

 

Shannon

Chabot mom