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Reduce Sodium and Minimize Labor with Speed-Scratch Food Production
This education session provide information on the benefits of speed-scratch cooking and how its food production can reduce sodium in recipes and in school menus.
Turn Your Planning Spreadsheet into a Digital Menu with Existing Tools
With a couple of scripts, you can turn your menu planning spreadsheet into a live digital menu on websites and in cafeterias! Join this session to learn how.
The Art of Inclusion: Making Menus More Inclusive for Special Diet Populations
In this session, you’ll be introduced to the strategies that IDEA Public Schools (TX), uses when designing menus to be more inclusive to their Special Diet population.
Hairnets to #Hashtags: Quick Tips to Promote Your Program on Social Media
Get quick and easy take home tips and ideas for maintaining a social media presence and learn ways for the social media beginner to create quick content and gain followers.
Utilize Google to Create Free and Easy Organizational Tools for Your Schools
Learn how to create free organizational tools through Google, including websites to organize departments, menu ordering and inventory tools and department resources.
Connect to the Classroom with MyPlate
Discover how you can use MyPlate for a fun, interactive session with students (or as a staff health touch point!). Practice using your own “typical day” of food intake, plot things in MyPlate, set a goal or two and have a little fun, too.
Boosting Morale Through Mission-Driven Experiences
Discover tips for building hands-on learning experiences to better connect cafeteria staff to the mission while enhancing employee health and morale, including examples of field trips and collaborative exercises that allow staff to come together.
All the Cool Kids Eat School Lunch: Using Current Trends to Elevate Your Menus
Discover best practices for gathering and utilizing trendy ideas to create exciting menus that increase participation and elevate the school food experience.
Shared Leadership: How to Let Go and Trust Those Around You
Learn why the traditional hierarchy in a team or organization can be ineffective, as well as how to share the responsibility with others on your team to ease the burden on yourself, create efficiencies and empower those around you as they grow into their own!
A Problem is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Sometimes your best laid plans get thrown off course. Or maybe you feel helpless and are told you cannot do something. Attend this education session to discover the best ways to tackle those “somethings,” that pop up.