Welcome to the
E-STAR Resource Center
The Team Nutrition E-STAR Training Grant provides funding to train school nutrition managers using the E-STAR training program, created by the Institute for Child Nutrition, that focuses on school meal quality. The E-STAR training is exclusive to this grant.
Thank you for all you do to
feed our students!
The Michigan Department of Education will facilitate the E-STAR Training Program, which assists school nutrition managers in goal setting and implementing an action plan with strategies to improve school meal quality and students’ perception of school meal quality, and provide extensive professional development training for school nutrition professionals, and award sub-grants to School Food Authorities to implement strategies that improve meal quality.
This comprehensive training program includes training, online learning, and mentoring for school nutrition managers, who will in turn provide training to their frontline staff to support the implementation of strategies to improve meal quality at the school level. Evaluation activities associated with this grant include an FNS evaluation of the E-STAR training program and a Michigan-led evaluation of school implementation of meal quality improvement action plans.
