| NEW! Adult Learning | Adult Learning is designed to be a supplemental online course to the Foundations of Training Excellence Master Trainer face-to-face course. The purpose of this course is to enhance the trainers' ability to actively engage trainees in training for improved learning and improved job performance.
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 4.00 | 
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Batch Cooking- From the No Time To Train Series
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Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: None • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| Cooking for the New Generation | This course is designed to help child nutrition assistants understand the preferences of new generations student customers; how to follow the correct receiving, storing, holding, and serving procedures; and how to choose the appropriate preparations techniques and equipment to ensure food quality and safety. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Assistants
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 6.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| CT1-Culinary Techniques: Introduction to Preparing Healthy School Meals | This course provides an introduction to the six course series and teaches a process for preparing healthy school meals. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 |  |
| CT2-Culinary Techniques: Preparing Fruits, Vegetables, and Salads | This course series and teaches culinary principles and techniques for preparing quality fruits, vegetables, and salads. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: Culinary Techniques: Introduction to Preparing Healthy School Meals Hours: 6.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| CT3-Culinary Techniques: Preparing Entree Items | This course teaches culinary principles and techniques for preparing meats, poultry, fish, sandwiches, dry beans and peas, and pasta, rice, and grains. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: Culinary Techniques: Introduction to Preparing Healthy School Meals
Hours: 8.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| CT4-Culinary Techniques: Preparing Soups, Eggs, Dairy, and Sauces | This course teaches culinary principles and techniques for preparing quality soups, eggs, dairy, and sauces. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: Culinary Techniques: Introduction to Preparing Healthy School Meals
Hours: 8.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| CT5-Culinary Techniques: Preparing Breads and Baked Goods | This course teaches culinary principles and techniques for preparing quick breads, yeast breads, cakes, cookies, and pastry. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: Culinary Techniques: Introduction to Preparing Healthy School Meals
Hours: 6.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| CT6-Culinary Techniques: Using Seasonings | This course teaches how to select and use seasonings to build flavors in meals and to taste test new recipes with students. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: Culinary Techniques: Introduction to Preparing Healthy School Meals
Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| Financial Management: A Course for School Nutrition Directors | This course is designed to help you, the school nutrition director, make decisions about long-term goals for the program that will ensure sustainability of the program. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Directors
Prerequisites: none Hours: 12.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Focus on the Customer for School Nutrition Assistants | This course focuses on making the customer the center of all activity through getting to know the student and developing customer service strategies based on student needs and expectations. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: none Hours: 6.00 • SNA Key Area: 4 |
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| Focus on the Customer for School Nutrition Managers | This course focuses on making the customer the center of all activity through getting to know the student and developing customer service strategies based on student needs and expectations. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers
Prerequisites: none Hours: 7.00 • SNA Key Area: 4 |
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| Food Production Records | This course focuses on completing accurate food production records in school nutrition programs.
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.50 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| Food Service Assistant... You Are Important | This course focuses on the roles and skills of the food service assistant (more...)
Target Audience: Food Service Assistant
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 4 | 
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| Hot and Cold Temperatures | This course focuses on the importance of keeping foods safe by identifying the temperatures in the temperature danger zone.
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| Human Resource Series - Communication Skills for Managers | This course is the first course in a series of seven online courses in the Management Skills for Success series. The purpose of this series is to help learners develop effective people skills. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers and Directors
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 4 | 
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| Human Resource Series - Creating a Motivating Workplace | This course is designed to help school nutrition managers understand the relationship between motivation and emotions and feelings, identify factors that motivate employees, and describe effective actions a manager can take that creates a motivating workplace. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers and Directors
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 3.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Human Resource Series - Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace | The course is designed to help managers develop skills that they can use to bring about win-win resolutions to conflicts that occur in the workplace. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers and Directors
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 3.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Human Resource Series - Dealing with Difficult People and Situations | This online training presents information on three aspects of dealing with difficult people or situations: the manager's attitude, the manager's purpose and goals, and non-productive behaviors. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 3.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Human Resource Series - Delegating and Empowering | This online training focuses on the conditions for successful delegation in the work environment and will help managers recognize the role they play in setting the stage for successful delegation. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 3.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Human Resource Series - Employee Discipline | This online training focuses on the set standards of acceptable behavior essential in the operation of any organization. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 3.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Human Resource Series - Performance Standards and Expectations | This online training is designed to increase the school nutrition manager's awareness and to help facilitate integration of existing Child Nutrition Program standards. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 3.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Inventory Management - Controlling Cost | The purpose of this course is to train new directors, new managers, and assistant to develop systems and procedures to manage inventory effectively in order to control costs. (more...)
Target Audience: New Child Nutrition Directors and Managers and Child Nutrition Assistants
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 |
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| NEW! No Time to Train: MyPlate | This course is designed provide specific information about the MyPlate icon and a brief explanation of the significance of each part of the design.
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Managers and Child Nutrition Assistants/Technicians
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 2 |
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| NEW! Nutrition 101 | School nutrition assistants and technicians and school nutrition managers need to understand basic nutrition. Completion of this course will give participants a basic foundation in nutrition, current dietary guidance, the importance of physical activity in health, and awareness of personal taste preferences and healthful food choices. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 10.00 • SNA Key Area: Core Course | 
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| Motivating Participants | The purpose of this course is to enhance the trainers' ability to actively engage trainees in training for improved learning and ultimately, improved job performance.
Target Audience: Trainers and State Agency Staff
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 4.00 |
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| On the Road to Professional Food Preparation - Standardized Recipes | This course covers using standardized recipes for consistent food preparation (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 |
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| On the Road to Professional Food Preparation - Weights and Measures | This course covers the use of weights and measures in the preparation and service of food. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: On the Road - Standardized Recipes • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| On the Road to Professional Food Preparation - Portion Control | This course focuses on the benefits of portion control when serving food (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Staff
Prerequisites: On the Road - Weights and Measures • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 | 
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| On the Road to Professional Food Preparation - Recipe Adjustments | This course is designed to help you, the school nutrition assistant, achieve the nutritional, educational, and financial goals of the school nutrition program. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Assistant
Prerequisites: On the Road - Portion Control • Hours: 4.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 |
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| Quality in Value Added Products | This course defines food quality with respect to value-added products.
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Assistants
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 |
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| Receiving Affects Customer Satisfaction from the No Time to Train Series | This lesson focuses on one of the most important steps in the purchasing process - receiving. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Assistant
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 1 |
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| USDA State Agency Guidance to Procurement Topic 1 | This course will provide State agencies with a better understanding of how to best perform responsibilities in the area of SFA procurements, and provide more information on the Federal procurement process requirements. (more...)
Target Audience: State Agency Staff and Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 15.00 |
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| USDA State Agency Guidance to Procurement Topic 2 | This course will provide State agencies with a better understanding of how procurement works; planning, executing, and administering a competitive procurement. (more...)
Target Audience: State Agency Staff and Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: USDA State Agency Guidance to Procurement Topic 1
Hours: 18.00 |
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| Webinar - Financial Management #1 | Financial Management #1 presented by Dr. Jerry Cater on January 7, 2010(more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 |
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| Webinar - Financial Management #2 | Financial Management #2 presented by Dr. Jerry Cater on January 21, 2010(more...)
Target Audience: school nutrition professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 | 
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| Webinar - Financial Management #3 | Financial Management #3 presented by Dr. Jerry Cater;on February 4, 2010(more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 3 | 
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| Webinar - Fueling the School-Aged Athlete - Healthy Eating Score! | Fueling the School-Aged Athlete - Healthy Eating Score! presented by Renee Matich on September 29, 2009. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 2 | 
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| Webinar - Update on Inborn Errors of Metabolism | Update on Inborn Errors of Metabolism Webinar presented by Harriet Cloud on June 25, 2008. (more...)
Target Audience: Child Nutrition Professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 • SNA Key Area: 2 |
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| Webinar - What are the Nutritional Benefits of MyPlate? | What are the Nutritional Benefits of MyPlate? was presented on January 10, 2013. Christanne will provides information on the MyPlate basics, discusses MyPlate versus the Food Pyramid and gives the benefits of following the recommended dietary guidelines.(more...)
Target Audience: school nutrition professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 | 
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| Webinar - Introducing MyPlate to Parents of Young Children | Introducing MyPlate to Parents of Young Children was presented on January 24, 2013. Christanne provided strategies for introducing MyPlate to young children, demonstrated how to incorporate MyPlate into age appropriate activities, and gave ideas for introducing young children to the five food components. (more...)
Target Audience: school nutrition professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 | 
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| Webinar - Incorporating MyPlate in the Child Care Classroom | Incorporating MyPlate in the Child Care Classroom was presented on February 7, 2013. Christanne provided strategies child care professionals can use to motivate parents to use MyPlate at home, resources that are available to aid parents in following the recommended dietary guidelines, and methods of aiding parents in selecting healthy food items. (more...)
Target Audience: school nutrition professionals
Prerequisites: none • Hours: 1.00 | 
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