Student Engagement Resources

Ensuring your students are excited about your school meal program and actively participating in it is a worthwhile challenge. It is incredibly important that their voices are included and that they feel a sense of ownership in the meals being offered. Creating student buy-in can take time however it is worth the investment. There are ways to strategically engage with your student population in a manner that fosters their involvement, while also creating structure around the type of feedback they are offering.

This resource above has a collection of tools to support Student Engagement. Below are links to each individual resource as well.

• Student Survey for Older than 4th Grade
  • Breakfast Student Survey
  • Lunch Student Survey
  • School Meals Student Survey
  • Voting Option – Identify 4 New Menu Items and add to this survey for students to vote on
• Student Survey for Younger than 4th Grade
• Taste Test Stickers – there are templates from websites such as Avery.com for stickers and you can copy these over into their template for printing
• Recipe Feedback Forms – these may work for younger students, however some of the descriptive words are probably more in line with 2-5th graders.

Along with these resources, we highly recommend checking out these websites below for more amazing tools, ideas, and resources!

• Team Nutrition
• The School Nutrition Association
• Visualz – this website has some free resources, however their stickers are incredible and worth the cost!
• The Lunch Box
• No Kid Hungry – Student Feedback Toolkit