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K-12 FOODSERVICE DIRECTORS SHARED THEIR BEST PRACTICES ON COLLABORATING WITH DISTRICT OFFICIALS DURING A SESSION AT THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE. 3 SIMPLE STRATEGIES K-12 OPERATORS SHOULD TRY TO GET BUY-IN FROM SKEPTICAL DISTRICT LEADERSHIP
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 attend- ed, they knew they wouldn’t be able to BY BENITA GINGERELLA
place earlier this month, the directors discussed the results of a project in which they interviewed principals at their own districts about their thoughts on their respective district’s school nu- trition program. The results from the interviews re- vealed certain pitfalls that K-12 oper- ators could find themselves in when speaking with district leadership. Here are three things shared during the ses- sion to help operators make their next conversation with district leadership a beneficial one.
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 segment, Perkins joined fellow Wisconsin 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
Josh Perkins, Bobbie Guyette and Kaitlin Tauriainen speak during their session at ANC 2024.
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