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Pre-Conference Sessions

SAT. JULY 15

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lights! Camera! With Visual Merchandising
Presenter: Nancy Lane, Account Manager, Hubert Company

Regardless of the size of your budget, in this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use visual merchandising techniques to inspire healthy eating choices and improve sales. This session will include an opportunity to work in groups to exercise your newly learned visual skills.

Cost: $75.00 
CEUs:Audience: Employee, Manager, Director


Greatest Assets
Presenters: Gertrude Applebaum, Julie Boettger and Dot Pannell-Martin, inTEAM Associates

An effective leader knows that employees are an organization’s most important assets. In this interactive workshop you will learn how to select, train, lead and discipline employees using techniques that will build a great team. Case studies, role-playing and skits will be used to demonstrate lessons.

Cost: $95.00 
CEUs:Audience: Manager, Director, Industry, State Agency


Implementing a Food Defense Plan
Presenter: Theresa Stretch, National Food Service Management Institute

The National Food Service Management Institute, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has developed specific food defense resources to instruct school nutrition professionals. You will polish your own food safety skills and learn what other school districts are doing to protect their food supply. 

Cost: $95.00 
CEUs: 8 Audience: Manager, Director, Industry, State Agency


Moving up to Manager? You Need a Play Book!
Presenters: Nancy Barlow-Alford, Jill Eagan, MPH, RD, Region 4 Education Service Center

Managing a school cafeteria is like managing a baseball team—it requires time, thinking, consistent feedback. To guide you through this process, you can consult the New Manager’s Course Playbook, a CD-ROM-based training program. This training will guide participants through the seven sections of the course: Objectives, Managing Operations, Developing Team Performance and more. Also, you can receive up to 24 additional SNA CEUs by completing worksheets back home and submitting them for certification.

Cost: $95.00 
CEUs:Audience: Manager, Director


Special Needs Nutrition in the Child Nutrition Program
Presenters: Teresa Carithers, The University of Mississippi; Linda Godfrey, Shelby County Board of Education; and Ensley Howell, National Food Service Management Institute

This session will feature in-depth information on selected special diets and provide problem-based learning opportunities through the use of case studies. You also will get an overview of the 2006 Breakfast Lunch Training manual—information related to federal laws, guidance for menu modifications and management of special diets. 

Cost: $95.00 
CEUs:Audience: Manager, Director, State Agency


Keys to Success: Writing and Implementing an Effective School Food Safety Program Based on HACCP Principles
Presenters: Chuck Ainsworth, Divisional Manager, SFSPac Food Service Sanitation System; Jeannie Sneed, PhD, RD, SFNS, CSFP, Editor, The Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, Iowa State University

In keeping with the provisions of the 2004 Reauthorization, school food authorities are required to develop and implement their own overall food safety programs before the end of the 2005-06 school year. Food safety programs must be based on the new HACCP principles. This special session will teach you the Process Approach to HACCP.

Cost: $75.00 
CEUs:Audience: Manager, Director, State Agency


1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Selling to the School Nutrition Market
Presenter: Tami Cline, Cline Consulting

Designed for industry, this workshop provides an overview of the multi-billion-dollar school foodservice market. Arm your sales and marketing staff with the information and resources to match your company's strengths with growing opportunities created through expanding feeding occasions, local wellness initiatives and food-safety concerns. Accounts of "what works" and "what doesn't work" from savvy school foodservice operators will be shared and discussed.

To attend, please use this form to register.

Selling to the School Nutrition Market Registration Form

Cost: $95
CEUs: 4


8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Healthy Edge: Building Healthy School Meals
Presenter: Kathleen A. Burrill, SFNS

This three-part session will cover such topics as the latest dietary guidelines, including portions, variety and essential nutrients; ensuring that menus are planned and prepared properly; marketing to students; and making a long-term impact on student health through nutrition education. The session will emphasize group work and creative thinking to provide participants with ideas to take back and implement in their local schools.

Cost: $150.00 (includes workshop study guide)
CEUs: 10  Audience: Employee, Manager, Director, Industry, State Agency


SUN. JULY 16

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Healthy Edge: Building Healthy School Meals
Presenter: Kathleen A. Burrill, SFNS

This three-part session will cover such topics as the latest dietary guidelines, including portions, variety and essential nutrients; ensuring that menus are planned and prepared properly; marketing to students; and making a long-term impact on student health through nutrition education. The session will emphasize group work and creative thinking to provide participants with ideas to take back and implement in their local schools.

Cost: $150.00 (includes workshop study guide)
CEUs: 10  Audience: Employee, Manager, Director, Industry, State Agency

 

 

 
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