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Register for a special event featuring Angela Duckworth

Join Healthy NewsWorks for a special evening event with best-selling author Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., on Thursday, November 19, in Philadelphia.   A Conversation with Angela Duckworth will be from 6:30 to…

Bring a family engagement workshop to your school or community

Bring a Family Engagement Workshop to your school or community during the 2026–27 school year. Schools, parent organizations, libraries, and community groups can choose from six interactive workshops that help…

Explore our redesigned website

We have updated our website. We hope the new look makes it easier to view student work, classroom resources, and our latest news.  The redesigned homepage provides a fresh introduction…

Free health and journalism resources available for teachers and families

Bring free health activities and videos into your classroom or home with ready-to-use resources for students in grades K to 8. Available on the Healthy NewsWorks teachers page, the materials…

Read the Fall 2026 edition of By Kids, For Kids!

Healthy NewsWorks has released the Fall 2026 issue of By Kids, For Kids: Making Healthy Connections, featuring student work about how connections can shape health and well-being. The magazine includes…

Student reporters talk loneliness and connection with Dr. Vivek Murthy

Healthy NewsWorks student reporters recently asked Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st U.S. Surgeon General, about loneliness, social connection, and the importance of building strong relationships.  During a sit-down interview, the reporters learned what led Dr. Murthy to focus…

Evaluation finds strong growth in students’ social-emotional learning

A new Healthy NewsWorks teacher survey found that on average 91 percent of students deepened their social and emotional learning (SEL) through participation in the school newspaper program during the 2025–26 school year.   The survey marked the first time…

Student reporters explore caring for mind and body in 2026-27

y NewsWorks student reporters will explore the everyday habits, relationships, and experiences that support mental and physical well-being through the 2026–27 reporting theme, How We Heal: Caring for Our Minds and…

Now available: Summer 2026 newsletter

Check out our annual summer newsletter that looks back on the 2025–26 school year and ahead to 2026–27.  Highlights include new findings from our 2025–26 evaluation showing how Healthy NewsWorks reporters gained social and emotional…

Healthy NewsWorks introduces four family workshops

Healthy NewsWorks is expanding its Family Engagement Workshops for the 2026-27 school year with four new interactive programs designed to help families build healthy habits, strengthen communication, and navigate today’s digital world together.  Family Engagement Workshops…

Students recount advice from former Cole Manor alumnus

“No mistake is bad, it is just something you can grow from.”  That advice is from fifth-grade student and East Norriton Bulldog Bulletin journalist Aria Bucci. She said she learned that tip from Villanova Law School student Dean Millard when she interviewed him last year for an article in the By Kids, For Kids: Making Good…

Healthy NewsWorks reaches more students, strengthens skills in 2025–26

Healthy NewsWorks reached a record 22 schools and 2,244 students during the 2025–26 school year, expanding access to health journalism education while helping young reporters build the skills to find…