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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
While this module focuses primarily on reasonable modifications in the NSLP and SBP, the information also applies to the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP), the Special Milk Program (SMP), the afterschool snack component of the NSLP, and the Seamless Summer Option (SSO). Although the school food service is specifically responsible for providing the necessary meal modifications for children participating in the School Meal Programs, the overall responsibility for accommodating children with disabilities rests with the local education agency (LEA).
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
This course will educate and inspire the user to implement or expand a School Breakfast Program. Topics include the benefits of school breakfast, alternative delivery systems (e.g. Breakfast in the Classroom, Grab 'n Go Breakfast), promoting school breakfast, and overcoming school breakfast challenges.
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
This course will teach users how to properly credit foods used in menus to ensure that meals meet the reimbursable meal pattern requirements. Topics include CN labels, whole grain-rich requirements, allowable forms of foods, and minimum serving sizes.
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit (Two certificates each worth 1.0 hours.) |
This course teaches the user how to minimize the risks in Farm to School programs. This includes not just sourcing food from local producers, but also school gardens, nutrition and agriculture classroom lessons, field trips to local farms, and taste testing of local products. Most of the information in this lesson is based on recommendations from the USDA's Produce Safety University.
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1.0 Hour of Continuing Education Credit |
This course teaches the user how to forecast in order to efficiently procure items for the school meal program. The importance of cycle menus, standardized recipes, production records, and recording current inventory is stressed and exercises are included which help the user accurately predict what goods are needed in a given program.
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
This course teaches users about Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in Pennsylvania. Topics include the selection criteria for acceptance into the program, requirements for compliance with the program, and strategies for success. It is intended for use by Pennsylvania schools that have been awarded Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program grants, as well as schools which may be interested in applying for the program.
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1.0 Hour of Continuing Education Credit |
Today's School Nutrition Program faces a lot of competition. This course will teach the user how to succeed in the face of this competition by identifying and overcoming obstacles with effective marketing strategies.
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1.0 Hour of Continuing Education Credit |
This course teaches users the requirements of The National School Lunch Afterschool Snack Program (ASP). This is an extension of The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) which provides reimbursement for nutritious snacks served to students in afterschool programs that include enrichment and learning activities. Topics include eligibility, meal pattern, and monitoring/recordkeeping.
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1.0 Hour of Continuing Education Credit |
Nonprogram foods are foods and beverages purchased with funds from the Nonprofit School Food Service Account (NSFSA), then sold in participating schools other than reimbursable meals.
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
OVS is an effective means of combating food waste. This course teaches the user the requirements of OVS and how to ensure that students choose the components needed to constitute a reimbursable school meal, at breakfast or lunch, at all age levels.
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1.0 Hour of Continuing Education Credit |
This course gives the user an overview of School Nutrition Programs, including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), School Breakfast Program (SBP), Afterschool Snack Program (ASP), Special Milk Program (SMP), Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP), and Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
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1.5 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
This course will teach the user about Procurement in the School Nutrition Program in order to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations. Topics include the necessity of full and open competition, the need for a separate fund for the SNP, types of procurement (e.g. micro-purchase, informal bid, formal bid), local procurement, and much more.
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
Production Records are the bedrock upon which a sound school meal program is based. They are required for effective forecasting as well as to ensure your program receives reimbursement for meals served. This course teaches the benefits and requirements of Production Records, using Standardized Recipes and Usage Recipes and includes hands-on activities to help the user become familiar with how to keep accurate Production Records.
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1.5 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
This course will teach the user the requirements for a reimbursable school breakfast. Topics include general meal pattern requirements, the limits on offering juice, the options for offering meat and meat alternates, how components credit in smoothies at breakfast, grain and milk requirements, and more. In addition to this, the user will learn the Offer Versus Serve (OVS) and Nutrition Standard requirements of school breakfast.
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2.0 Hours of Continuing Education Credit |
This course explains the nutrition standards imposed upon all foods and beverages sold outside of the federal child nutrition programs in schools. The user will learn the situations under which Smart Snacks regulations do and do not apply, as well as regulations for school fundraisers.