Serving breakfast during the regular school day increases the number of students that can participate. WHERE is the best place to serve breakfast?
• Breakfast in the classroom after the first bell eliminates the stigma often associated with school breakfast and gives all students the opportunity to eat a healthy morning meal. • Classroom teachers can take attendance, collect homework, and accomplish other administrative tasks during breakfast without interfering with “time on learning”. • Students can also use this 10-15 minutes time period to work on homework or reading assignments. • Student representatives from each class can pick up pre-packed meals from the cafeteria and deliver them to the classroom in carts, crates, and/or coolers. • Teachers can invite students to take their breakfast from the cooler or have one student distribute the meals to the rest of the class. • Teachers can record the meals taken while taking attendance. Student representatives can then bring the empty carts, along with the attendance sheet with meal information, back to the cafeteria. • Students can be responsible for cleaning their eating area an
