Menu Close

Teachers

 Your role in expanding school breakfast

Teachers can sense when kids are hungry, tired, and can’t focus. That’s why they dig into their pockets to pay for snacks and food for students during the day. Making breakfast a seamless part of the day with alternative breakfast models can have a huge positive impact on classrooms and schools. Learn more about how breakfast can impact your classroom.

Key Resources

Fact Sheet for Teachers

Nebraska-specific information for teachers including common concerns and solutions that have proven useful in other districts.

Nebraska School Breakfast Playbook

Everything you need to know to implement an alternative school breakfast model in your school or district. Get answers to common questions, tips and timelines, and great examples from right here in Nebraska.

Nebraska Appleseed Breakfast Webpage

Nebraska Appleseed's breakfast webpage offers breakfast models options, tools for schools and more that can help you evaluate and improve your school nutrition programs today.

 Why Alternative Breakfast Models?

  • Alternative Breakfast Models don’t cut into required instructional time. When breakfast is served in the classroom, many teachers use the time to take attendance, collect homework, make announcements, or eat along with their kids.

  • More breakfast participation leads to calmer classrooms. Fewer referrals, increased respect, and better behavior mean more instruction time for teachers.

  • Cleanup is simple and quick. Schools can develop collaborative cleanup plans with custodians, teachers, and kids that give responsibility to students and work for your school.

  • School breakfasts are nutritious and healthy. Students who eat breakfast at school are more likely to have a balanced diet and do better in classes.

Teacher-Specific Resources

Alternative Breakfast Models 101 Webinar: Geared towards teachers and administrators, this FRAC webinar outlines how Breakfast After the Bell benefits students and classrooms, and how it can be a seamless part of the instructional day.

Breakfast after the Bell Myths: This easy-to-read document addresses common myths and about Breakfast in the Classroom and provides information to dispel concerns you or your staff may have.

School Breakfast – Healthier Than You Think: School breakfast often gets a bad rap for being unhealthy, when in reality the food options served at breakfast must adhere to strict nutritional guidelines and are often much healthier than store-bought breakfast.

How School Meals Reach Students: This resource traces the path of the funding that supports school breakfast and lunch from Congress to cafeteria. It also answers common questions that educators have about how the programs work.

Classroom Set Up and Clean Up: This resource outlines how classrooms can be affected by Breakfast After the Bell, and shares best practices on how to create a plan for classroom set-up and clean up where breakfast is served or eaten.

Grab and Go Rollout Timeline: The Grab and Go Rollout Timeline outlines action steps school stakeholders can take to help prepare for the launch of an alternative breakfast model. The rollout timelines span both long-term action steps and short-term action steps — starting at 8 weeks before implementation and counting down each week until launch. 

National School Breakfast Resources