Tom Horne
Superintendent of
Public Instruction

Providing the latest dish on School Health and Nutrition News and Information
Volume 3, August 2005

“Scoops”
is published quarterly by
the Arizona Department of
Education, School Health
and Nutrition Team
2005 North Central Ave
Phoenix, Arizona
(602) 542-8700
ade.az.gov/health-safety/
cnp/

Mary Szafranski
Deputy AssociateSuperintendent
Holly Mueller MPH RD SFNS
Program Director
School Health & Nutrition
Patricia Johnson RD SFNS
Scoops Editor
Professional Development
Coordinator
Katrina Klatt RD SFNS
CRE Coordinator
Kacey Frey RD SFNS
SMI Coordinator
Traci Grgich RD
FSMC/ School Breakfast
Coordinator
Lynn Ladd RD SFNS
STEPS Grant Coordinator
Nicholas Dunford
NSLP Training Coordinator
Crystal Kalahar
Welcome AssistanceCoordinator
Afterschool Snack Program
Mat McCarty RD
Team Nutrition Grant
Coordinator
Cara Peczkowski RD
HACCP/Food Safety Coordinator
Nicole Anderson
Special Assistance Coordinator
Erin Yde, RD
Well Street Journal Editor
Fruit & Vegetable Program
Coordinator
Jackie Wilson
Administrative Assistant

Welcome back! This school year the Arizona Department of Education is excited about increasing
our partnership with the School Nutrition Association of Arizona (SNAAZ) to provide the optimal
nutritional environment for Arizona’s children. Not only are the two organizations working hand in
hand to bring you, our sponsors, a terrific fall SNAAZ conference, but also in creating a united front
in our efforts to make Arizona a shining example of the best in school health and nutrition.
As the new SNAAZ president, I look forward to developing partnerships with local and national
organizations. I invite you to join us in our efforts to provide opportunities to improve our child
nutrition food service programs by becoming a member of SNAAZ. Visit the SNAAZ website at:
http://www.snaaz.org to join.
The Arizona Department of Education is committed to providing the best in educational
opportunities to our sponsors in order to help them achieve their professional goals. We are offering
a new format for our school lunch trainings now titled: A+ School Lunch Workshops. Various topics
are broken up into seven separate modules that you may attend. You no longer need to spend two
whole days at trainings if you only need instruction in one area. Just sign up for the modules that
best fit your individual training needs.
ADE has also been proactive in providing the most up to date HACCP instructions. A series of
HACCP classes were offered this past spring and a follow-up series will continue into the fall. We
have taken the mystery out of HACCP and enabled you to understand and implement this new
requirement into your school food service operation.
In addition to the new HACCP trainings, ADE will also be bringing you a series of Wellness
seminars titled Tools for Healthy Schools, which is designed to help prepare you for the new Wellness
Policy requirement that will take effect next summer. Come join us for these informative and helpful
trainings and you will be right on track for the 2007 school year.
What an exciting time to be a part of the school nutrition profession. With the combined efforts
of the Arizona Department of Education and the School Nutrition Association of Arizona, this year
could prove to be one of the most successful years for promoting optimal school health and nutrition.
Best of luck to each of you and we hope to see you all at the many training opportunities offered by
both ADE and SNAAZ.

Mary Szafranski
Deputy Associate Superintendent
Arizona Department of Education

Circulate to:

❑ Principal

Michelle Burkhart
President
School Nutrition Association of Arizona

❑ School Nurse

❑ Business Manager

❑ Health Teacher

❑ Kitchen staff

❑ Secretary/Bookkeeper

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Free On-Site

New HB2544 Arizona Nutrition Standards for
K - 8 Schools

Training!
Is your school nutrition
staff in need of training, yet
you cannot make it to one
of the ADE sponsored
trainings? Well, we have
some exciting news for those
of you who fall into this
category. The Health and
Nutrition team at the
Arizona Department of
Education is now offering
on-site trainings to qualified
sponsors. These FREE
trainings will be made
available with the following
conditions:
•

20 attendees minimum

•

30 days advance notice

•

Classroom setting
location provided

Come learn the most
current information from
the experts who regulate the
National School Lunch
Program. Best of all, these
trainings are FREE to you,
our sponsors. Just let us
know what area you need us
to cover:
Introduction to NSLP
Certifying Eligible
Students
Verifying Students
Eligibility
Counting and
Claiming
Component Menus
NuMenus
Provision 2 & 3
Just give us a call at
(602) 542-8700, ask for a
Health and Nutrition
Specialist and let us help you
make your food service
operation the best it can be.
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The Arizona Department of Education has a team of Registered Dietitians that will be releasing
The Arizona Nutrition Standards, required by House Bill 2544. The bill was passed in April 2005 and
will require all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to implement
the guidelines before the start of the 2006-2007 school year.
The Arizona Nutrition Standards will be designed to assist schools, parents, and communities in
providing a healthy model of living. As a result, we hope to see a reduction in the overwhelming
numbers of childhood obesity, pre-diabetes and premature heart related diseases that plague our
children.
The bases of the “Arizona Nutrition Standards” will be derived from the US Dietary Guidelines
for Americans and policies that other states have implemented.
These new standards will affect all foods sold in vending machines, snack bars, and the school
stores which operate during school hours.
The “Arizona Nutrition Standards” will be posted on www.ade.az.gov/health-safety and sent out
to all Local Education Agencies (LEAs) on August 15th for a 60 day comment period. Comments
maybe written or e-mailed to the Department of Education. For further information please visit the
web site www.ade.az.gov/cnp or call 602-542-8700.

Slow Food, Slow Schools- A New Twist to School Lunch
Chef Alice Walters, restaurateur, declared a ‘Delicious Revolution’ last month that calls for a
school lunch program that connects schools to farms with an end result of getting children to eat
better and understand agriculture. While the farm to cafeteria movement is not a new concept, Chef
Walters wants to take it one step further, promoting a ‘slow school’ eco-gastronomic movement that
celebrates diversity, tradition, and promotes their community by allowing room for discovery and
room for paying attention to the details during their meals at school.
In her testimonial, ‘Slow Food, Slow Schools’ Chef Walters stated the way to turn public schools
into ‘slow schools’ can be done, as proved by The Edible Schoolyard at the Martin Luther King Jr.
Middle School in Berkeley, California. The public middle school with 1,000 students had no cafeteria,
as it had been shut down due to lack of space to accommodate the large group. It also had a large
schoolyard covered completely with asphalt. Members of the community and the school decided to
create an edible landscape. The students are responsible for planting and caring for the garden plants.
Once the fruits of their labor are ready for the picking, the students prepare, serve and eat together
the produce they had grown. All these activities are woven into the curriculum and are part of the
school day. “Learning is supposed to be a pleasure, and food-centered curriculum is a way to reach
kids in a way that is truly pleasurable.”
Chef Walters believes that if every school had a lunch
program that served students only locally grown products
that had been sustainably farmed, she can only imagine
what positive outcomes it would have for agriculture. In
addition, in an effort to combat the skyrocketing rate of
childhood obesity, she states schools need to respond by
bringing locally and organically grown nutritious food
back into the cafeteria and into the classroom. She states
“when the hearts and minds of our children are captured
by school a school lunch curriculum, enriched with
experience in the garden, sustainability will become the
lens through which they see the world.”
To view Chef Walters ‘Slow Food, Slow Schools’ in
its entirety, view www.edibleschoolyard.org/
alice_message.html.

The Arizona Department of Education is proud to announce the following sponsors for the 2004-2005 School Meal
Initiative (SMI) and Coordinated Review Effort (CRE) awards. We have seen a substantial increase in nominees this
year as our schools continue to improve in compliance with regulations. Congratulations and good luck.

SMI AWARD NOMINEES

CRE AWARD NOMINEES

Amphitheater Unified School District
Arizona Child Home
Benson Unified School District
Casa Grande Elementary District
Cottonwood Day School
Immaculate Conception School
Lukachukai Community School
Paloma Elementary District
Paradise Valley Unified School District
Peoria Unified School District
Prescott Unified School District
Somerton School District
Washington Elementary District

Agua Fria Union High School District
Amphitheater Unified District
Arizona Children’s Home
Benson Unified District
Bouse Elementary District
Casa Grande Elementary District
Cottonwood Day School
Eloy Elementary District
Fowler Elementary District
Humboldt Unified District
Littleton Elementary District
Lukachukai Community School
Mesa Unified District
Paradise Valley Unified District
Peoria Unified District
Prescott Unified District
Washington Elementary District

Please visit www.ade.az.gov/health-safety/cnp/nslp/ to view the award winners and nominees from the
past two years.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Date

Health & Nutrition Services Trainings

Location

Time

A+ School Lunch Workshops (NSLP)
9/21& 11/9/05
9/21& 11/9/05
9/21& 11/9/05
9/21& 11/9/05
9/22&11/10/05
9/22&11/10/05
9/22&11/10/05
9/13/05
9/13/05
9/13/05
9/13/05
9/14/05
9/14/05
9/14/05
8/31/05
8/31/05
8/31/05
8/31/05
9/1/05
9/1/05
9/1/05
8/30/05
11/10/05
9/30/05
10/13/05
10/27/05

Introduction to NSLP: Module 1
Certifying Eligible Students: Module 2
Verifying Students Eligibility: Module 3
Counting and Claiming: Module 4
Commodity Foods
Component Menus
NuMenus
Introduction to NSLP: Module 1
Certifying Eligible Students: Module 2
Verifying Students Eligibility: Module 3
Counting and Claiming: Module 4
Commodity Foods
Component Menus
NuMenus
Introduction to NSLP: Module 1
Certifying Eligible Students: Module 2
Verifying Students Eligibility: Module 3
Counting and Claiming: Module 4
Commodity Foods
Component Menus
NuMenus
Provision 2 & 3
Contracting with FSMC
Provision 2 & 3
Contracting with FSMC
Contracting with FSMC

8/25/05
10/18/05
9/14/05
10/19-20/05
10/28-29/05

Preparing for your NSLP Review
Preparing for your NSLP Review
SUCCESS
Serving it Safe
SNAAZ Fall Conference

Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Tucson
Phoenix
Phoenix
Flagstaff

8:00-10:00
10:15-12:15
8:30-11:30
3:45-5:00
8:00-11:00
12:15-2:30
2:45-5:00
8:00-10:00
10:15-12:15
8:30-11:30
3:45-5:00
8:00-11:00
12:15-2:30
2:45-5:00
8:00-10:00
10:15-12:15
8:30-11:30
3:45-5:00
8:00-11:00
12:15-2:30
2:45-5:00
1:00-4:30
8:30-12:00
1:00-4:30
8:30-12:00
1:00-4:30

Professional Development Opportunites
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix
Phoenix

9:00-12:00
8:00-12:30
8:30-12:30
9:00-3:00 both days
www.snaaz.org

Register on line for all ADE Classes at: http://www.ade.az.gov/onlineregistration

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Food Distribution would
like to welcome all NSLP
sponsors to the 2006 school
year! As the school year begins,
ADE would like to welcome
Barbara Lado as the new
member of the Food
Distribution Team. Barbara
comes with 16 years experience
as a Food Service Coordinator
at schools in Arizona! Barbara
will be handling all allocations,
monthly verification reports,
losses and surplus. Her vast
background in the National
School Lunch Program and
with USDA commodities will
be a wonderful addition to the
Food Distribution Team.
As each sponsor is approved
on the NSLP, a Welcome Back
Packet will be mailed to explain
the procedure for getting started
on the Food Distribution
Program. If your school is new
to the Food Distribution
Program, you will be required
to attend a Food Distribution
overview training. In addition,
new individuals who will be
ordering commodities for their
school must attend a Food
Distribution web-based training
in order to gain access to the online ordering system. Every
individual who will be using the
on-line system must have their
own user-id and password. The
Welcome Back packet will
provide sponsors with on-line
registration information.
Each sponsor has been
allocated their “fair share” of
entitlement to use for the 2006
SY. The “fair share” entitlement
will be what sponsors use to
order commodities. Sponsors
can view their fair share on-line
at www.ade.az.gov/cnp2000.
Trucks are already being
delivered and approved
sponsors on the Food
Distribution Program should
begin looking at their
allocations as soon as possible.
We look forward to working
with you this school year to help
you receive delicious and
nutritious commodities to
supplement your NSLP!

HACCP Update
Coming this fall is ADE’s
HACCP Training Phase 2,
“The New HACCP
Requirements, Are You On
Track?” This training is
designed to assist LEAs with
implementing their food
safety program based on the
Process Approach to
HACCP Principles. If you
were unable to attend Phase
1 training, “The New
HACCP Requirements”,
please visit the NSLP
Website under “What’s
New”,
to
review
information and handouts
from
the
training:
www.ade.az.gov/healthsafety/cnp/nslp/
newmandate.asp
Also on June 10, 2005,
USDA sent all LEAs copies
of their new resource called
Guidance for SFAs:
Developing a Food Safety
Program based on the
Process Approach to
HACCP Principles. This
new guidance is also
available on the NSLP
website.
The following is a
schedule for Phase 2
Training, for which you
may register online at
w w w. a d e . a z . g ov /
onlineregistration.
Date
October 26
October 31
November 8
November 10
November 15

Location
Phoenix
Phoenix
Yuma
Tucson
Flagstaff

FINANCE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. When are claims due?
A. Claims are due on the 10th of the month following the claim
month. If the 10th falls on a weekend or State holiday, the claim
is due the first working day after the 10th.
Q. What happens if I cannot submit my claim by the 10th of the
month?
A. If you are experiencing computer related problems, submit your claim as soon as
possible after the 10th, the payment will be processed in the next payment processing.
Q. Are there any other options instead of submitting claims online?
A. The Health & Nutrition Office does not accept claims in any form other than online. If you
are experiencing problems submitting your claim, contact the Health & Nutrition office at
(602) 542-8700 and ask to be connected to the Finance Department of NSLP.
Q. When will I receive my payment?
A. Payments are mailed within 10-15 days after the “Submitted to Accounting” date on the claims
index page. Call the Payment Information line at (602) 542-5300 to find out the actual mail
date of claims.
Q. How much is my payment?
A. To determine the amount of the check and the claim month(s) included, click the “View
Payment Summary” link and then click the month and year the check was issued.
Q. How can my organization receive direct deposits?
A. Direct deposit, also known as ACH payments can be requested by contacting the Health &
Nutrition office to obtain the required form or by going to the General Accounting Offices
website at http://www.gao.state.az.us/vendor/ and downloading the ACH form. If you go
directly to the GAO website, please notify the Health & Nutrition office of the request for
ACH.
Q. When do reimbursement rates change?
A. Reimbursement rates change annually on July 1st. The Health & Nutrition office is notified
of the new reimbursement amounts during the second week of July. The new rates are posted
on the Department of Education website.
Q. How do I obtain a Common Logon account?
A. Common Logon accounts can be requested through the Health & Nutrition Office. You
must complete a Common Logon User Agreement and it must be signed by an authorizing
official. Food Service Management Company employees and consultants cannot have a
common logon account issued to them.

Arizona Department of Education
Tom Horne, Superintendent of Public Instruction

MENU
MUST be detailed and include exact items that will be served for the day.
PRODUCTION RECORDS
MUST maintain for every meal served and include:
• Menu items and recipes used
• Projected number of portions and serving sizes for each grade group
and adults
• Total amount of food prepared
• Actual number of reimbursable meals served for each grade group
• Actual number of non-reimbursable meals served
STANDARDIZED RECIPES
MUST maintain for all multi-ingredient menu items and include:
• Yield: Include serving size and number of servings
• All ingredients including form (fresh or frozen)
• Specific ingredient information such as: Low fat, fat free, % fat and low sodium
• Correct measures, weights, and/or pack size
• Preparation procedures
NUTRITION FACTS LABELS
MUST maintain for all non-scratch cooked items.
Academic Achievement Division
Health and Nutrition Services Unit
School Health and Nutrition Programs
602-542-8700
July 2005
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its
programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age,
disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation and marital or family status. Persons with
disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille,
large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600
(voice and TDD).
To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room
326-W, Whitten Building, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 202509410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and
employer.
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