Health-e Pro Webinars
Expert-led school nutrition webinars for K-12 professionals
AI in School Nutrition
AI is everywhere right now, and school nutrition teams are understandably wondering what it actually means for their work. Can it build a compliant menu? Can it write standardized recipes that credit correctly? Can it really save time, or does it introduce new risks?
Food Photography: Photo Fitness
Photo Fitness is all about small steps that add up over time. With a little practice (and the tools you already have), you can capture photos that make your meals look their best and help tell the real story of your program.
The Gift of Feedback
Feedback is happening all day in school nutrition. It shows up in the rush of the serving line, in quick comments between staff, in a student’s reaction to a new meal, and in those small moments when something misses the mark and you need to address it without making it personal.
Conflict Resolution: Part 2
No matter how experienced you are, some conversations just make your stomach drop. You know the ones, where tempers flare, trust is shaky, or someone simply refuses to change. Those are the moments that test your leadership, and the ones that make mastering conflict resolution worth it.
New Sodium and Sugar Regulations
This webinar featured Joe Urban and Lauren Couchois from School Food Rocks as they broke down the new USDA sodium and sugar regulations. The session compared current and upcoming standards, explored best practices for compliance, and shared actionable strategies to help school nutrition teams plan with confidence.
Creating a Food Culture
Stephanie Enjaian explored what “food culture” really means and why it matters in early childhood. The webinar session covered key influences like the food environment, adult role modeling, and meaningful, age-appropriate ways to talk with children about food.
A Guide to Allergy-Friendly Menus
This webinar featured Leeza Woodbury, MDA, RDN, and Angela Gomez, RDN, SNS, from Nourish Partners as they shared guidance for creating allergy-friendly menus. The session covered practical tips for reviewing medical statements, strategies for building inclusive menus that reflect what other students are eating, and helpful resources for supporting students with food allergies.
Key Communication Concepts
This webinar promises to provide resources to transform the way you lead and communicate within your organization’s food service program. You will gain confidence in handling challenging discussions, turning potential conflicts into opportunities for growth and improvement. You will elevate your ability to communicate effectively with staff, leading to better teamwork and smoother implementation of new initiatives.
Telling Your Story with Joe Urban
During this webinar you will learn why you need to take control of your story, who your audience is, what elements you want to highlight, and when and how to make it compelling. We will also provide you the tools you need to be confident when taking the next step–including a document template that you can populate with your key data points for clear and professional presentation to your leadership team.
Menu Engineering Made Simple
Are you on a mission to create an outstanding school food program? The answer lies in mastering Menu Optimization, and we’ve got the perfect guide! Health-e Pro is excited to invite you to a webinar featuring *the* trailblazer in school food innovation, Joe Urban of School Food Rocks. Discover the secrets behind crafting a menu that’s both appealing to students and profitable for schools.
Financial Fitness 2024
This engaging session is designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary for efficient financial planning and management in Child Nutrition. You’ll learn how to take your program’s financial health to the next level as we dive into the essentials of financial planning, akin to balancing a healthy diet. Our presentation will guide you through evaluating costs, leveraging technology, and making informed decisions for your program’s financial well-being.
What I Wish I’d Known When I Started
The road to professional excellence is often paved with lessons learned the hard way. How valuable would it be to learn those lessons now? We invite you to a special webinar with Anna Apoian, the 2021 SNA Food Service Director of the year, as she shares her wealth of knowledge with us.
Recipes Galore
Culinary creativity is the cornerstone of K-12 menu development. Yet, occasionally, we encounter a chef’s block. How do we jumpstart our innovative spirit again? Get ready to embark on a culinary journey designed especially with K-12 FSDs and menu planners in mind. We invite you to join us for an upcoming webinar with Melissa Manning of My School RD, where we will dive deep into the world of school menu planning and recipe sourcing to reignite your creative spark.
How To Re-Invest In Your Program
Ron Jones shared his wealth of knowledge and experience from decades in foodservice. Learn how Ron and his team turned the Spartanburg District program around to be profitable using data. Access the full webinar recording, presentation slides, and more!
DateCodeGenie
We’ll discuss how label printing can help you save time, money, and simplify your processes. We’ll cover the seamless integration between Health-e Pro and DateCodeGenie, so you can see how labels can be printed in seconds–directly from your Health-e Pro menu!
Marketing Your Program
See what tips and tricks Pisanick Partners and Health-e Pro share to market your program, from learning why foodservice directors are the best-kept secret in food service, to finding an overlooked way to increase participation.
Rise Vision Digital Signage
Learn from Rise Vision and Health-e Pro how quickly and easily you can get set up with Digital Signage, with easy-to-use templates and software built for the non-technical user.
Preparing For Anministrative Review
In this webinar with two former state reviewers, you’ll learn tips and tricks to pass an Administrative Review, including specific ways to prepare yourself, your program, and your data for a Review.
Become A Crediting Wizard
Learn more with the full recording and presentation of slides from the webinar. We discussed how crediting can be one of the most challenging parts of child nutrition–but it’s also essential.
Meal Crediting in the SBP & NSLP
From the experts at ProTeam, you can learn the nitty gritty details of meal crediting, from the methodology behind the USDA school meal programs, to crediting best practices such as what to keep in mind when making substitutions.
Preparing For Your Virtual Site Visit
After watching this webinar with the experts at LunchAssist, you’ll know the answers to some key questions, like what will menu compliance look like for a virtual site visit? And can we account for supply chain issues?
Financial Fitness Training
This 90-minute course helps you better understand your bottom line, from understanding income and expenses to meals per labor hour, we cover all the basics so you can get your finances fit.
Leadership/Followership with Anna Apoian
If you’ve ever wondered the interplay between leadership and followership and what traits you have of each to help in your role, this webinar with Anna Apoian, SNA Director of the Year, will both delight and interest you.
Promote Your Program
How can you better use My School Menus to promote your program? Maureen Pisanick dives into ways to use sidebars, images, and links within My School Menus to make sure you’re getting the word out about your great program.
Rethink & Renew
If you need to refocus and think about your program a little differently, this webinar is for you. With Maureen Pisanick of Pisanick Partners; Mandy Curry of Healthy Kids, Inc.; and Deepa Deshmukh, Inland Empire Foods; we discuss pain points over the past year and how to move forward.
Writing Recipes Right For Child Nutrition
With Health-e Pro’s Linsey LaPlant, walk through writing a recipe for NLSP so you can better understand how to make sure you’re crediting appropriately.
The Menu Drives Your Business
The menu drives everything else in your operation: How many hours can the staff work? What should we charge for a la carte chips? What if we can’t get sausage patties for breakfast? All your decisions come back to how you have planned the menu. In order to drive your program to success through the end of 2020 and beyond, learn how to manage costs, increase participation, and how to piece it all together.
It’s All About The Menu
Join Health-e Pro founder Meg Chesley, and Child Nutrition expert Mary Begalle in this webinar. They’ll demonstrate how understanding the menu guides every successful endeavor–from hitting your break-even point, to the logistics involved in introducing a new ramen bar–and how to be sure you’re pulling the right levers to get the results you want.
10 Tips in 15 Minutes
Drawing on their extensive experience in school foodservice, Linsey LaPlant and Renelle Leinbach of Health-e Pro, offer succinct tips and tricks about how to increase participation in your program, while making sure to put some smiles on your kids’ faces.
Bring Your Own Questions
You had burning questions, and we had answers. From questions around program design to menu planning and staffing to service, the experts here at Health-e Pro offered answers.
Writing CACFP Recipes Right
Walk through how to write a recipe for CACFP guidelines so you can better understand how to make sure you’re crediting appropriately, with Health-e Pro’s Linsey LaPlant.
Back in Session: Preparing For The Fall
Learn how the extension of SSO through the 2021-2022 school year offers you an opportunity to increase both program participation and revenue, and how you can take advantage of that.
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