School Meals Training
2025 School Meals Foodservice Training
Information about SY2025-26 Summer Training Opportunities
2025 School Food Service Annual Training Flyer
Registration Instructions for the Annual School Food Service Training
2025 Bookkeeper Training Flyer
2025 Bookkeeper update
Process the determining Meal Eligibility-Direct Certification
Process the determining Meal Eligibility-Free and Reduced-price Meal Application
Other Topics: Civil Rights-USDA Foods, and Record Retention
2025 School Meals Foodservice Training
Handout Packet School Meals Training 2025
2024 School Meals Foodservice Training
Part 1
Section 1 Video: Introduction, Lunch Meal Pattern and Meal Components
Section 2 Video: Calculating Grains, Lunch Meal Pattern ( continued) and Breakfast Meal Pattern
Part 2
Section 1 Video : Introduction and Production Records
Section 2 Video: Required Signage, Offer vs Serve, Point of Service Meal Counting, Preschool Meal Pattern and Other Program Requirements
2024 Bookkeeper Training
The slide deck and handouts are for the full training are linked below:
Recorded New Bookkeeper Training
The recordings below are derived from the full bookkeeper training webinar:
- Navigating the Nutrition Services website & Completing the annual School Nutrition Programs Application
- Process for determining Meal Eligibility – Direct Certification
- Process for determining Meal Eligibility – Free and Reduced-price Meal Application
- Point of Service Meal Counting and Submitting the Claim for Reimbursement
- Other Topics: On-site reviews, Civil Rights, USDA Foods, Meal Agreements, Supply Chain Assistance Funds, and Record Retention
Town Hall Meetings
School Lunch Program Training
- Child Nutrition Training Academy – Information for the summer 2025 Academy will be available in February 2025.
- Direct Certification and Direct Verification
- Outline of Civil Rights Guidance to be in Compliance
- USDA Civil Rights Requirements and Child Nutrition Programs (recorded training video)
- PowerPoint Slides and Transcript
- after opening double click on comment icon in upper left corner to open transcript.
- if opening in desktop version of Adobe you can also go to View, Tools, Comment, Open to display the transcript.
- PowerPoint Slides and Transcript
- ICN Civil Rights in Child Nutrition Programs Training
- Order Form for And Justice For All Poster
NDE is awaiting the most current version of the ‘And Justice for All’ Poster with the updated non-discrimination statement. Once it is available, we will communicate this with all School Food Authorities (SFAs)
- Institute of Child Nutrition E-Learning Portal – list of online training on a broad range of topics for child nutrition professionals working in school nutrition
- ICN Food Safety in Schools Training
- ICN Culture of Food Safety Training
- ICN Norovirus for Schools Training
- Diabetes in the School and Carbohydrate Control
- Food Waste Infographic.pdf
- Reducing Food Waste Tips & Resources.