3 simple strategies K-12 operators should try to get buy-in from skeptical district leadership K-12 foodservice directors shared their best practices on collaborating with district officials during a session at this year’s Annual National Conference.
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they wouldn’t be able to get their district leadership to sign off on whatever initiative they wanted to start, whether that be breakfast in the classroom or expanding farm to school. Seeing that this was a recurrent problem throughout the K-12 seg- ment, Perkins joined fellow Wiscon - sin K-12 nutrition directors Bobbie Guyette at School District of New Richmond and Kaitlin Tauriainen at Ashwaubenon School District, at this year’s ANC in Boston to lead a
presentation on how to approach district leadership. During their session, which took place earlier this month, the direc- tors discussed the results of a proj- ect in which they interviewed prin- cipals at their own districts about their thoughts on their respective district’s school nutrition program. The results from the interviews revealed certain pitfalls that K-12 operators could find themselves in when speaking with district leader - ship. Here are three things shared
BY BENITA GINGERELLA
D uring the School Nutrition As- sociation’s (SNA) 2023 Annu - al National Conference held last July in Denver, attendee and Food Service Director for Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin Josh Perkins, kept hearing over and over from fellow attendees that while they were inspired by many of the sessions they attended, they knew
Josh Perkins, Bobbie Guyette and Kaitlin Tauriainen speak during their session at ANC 2024.
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