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Maximize Summer School Build a relationship with the district personnel responsible for coordinating summer school in your district so you can be involved in the selection of school locations and have access to the information as early as possible. This allows you to plan early and maximize school buildings that are already operating in the summer. • At elementary sites it is usually a given that you will be feeding the students attending summer school; maximize these locations by promoting that they are open to all children in the neighborhood. If you are able to serve hot meals, that is a great way to increase community participation and we always found hot meals to be less labor intensive, cost effective and more appealing to students! In my former district we liked serving hot meals so much that we started opening schools just for community feeding sites in key neighborhoods with high needs that were walkable to the school. • Secondary schools are less likely to have students on campus all day for classes.. As a result, they may not think they need to offer meals. Older students that struggle with food insecurity are less likely to participate at summer meal locations, so please consider providing meals at these schools whenever possible! To make it efficient consider using these kitchens as preparation hubs for other community meal locations or mobile feeding sites. It makes sense anyway because they are probably your larger kitchens with ample storage space! These two ideas are just the beginning, who can you collaborate with to serve more kids?!
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Did you catch the first episode of the Next UP four- part series, The 4C’s behind the Business of Child Nutrition? Episode 1 focused on Collaboration and I can’t think of a better time to collaborate than summer! Short on Labor? Many districts built relationships with other district departments like transportation, custodial and others during pandemic shut downs. Sustain those relationships throughout the summer and put them to work! • Use buses for mobile feeding sites or have bus drivers drive your vehicles to free up your staff to focus on food preparation. • Summer school locations as preparation hubs: load meals into the bus after morning drop off and send them out to community locations that have known transportation issues; making several stops before returning for afternoon pickup. • Shannon Solomon shared on Next UP how they are hiring high school students to work afternoon shifts in kitchens. Why didn’t I think of that for summer meals! Students can do prep work, load meals for distribution and would be perfect for mobile sites; they can engage younger children with activities to increase participation and make it so much fun!
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