October 2021 … This fall, hundreds of students in the Philadelphia region will learn to distinguish fact from fiction and how to source reliable information. Before long, they will produce trustworthy, health-focused school newspapers filled with their writing...
Gotwals Healthy Press reporters display their copies of the Healthy NewsWorks 2021 book, which they helped to write and illustrate. With them, from left, are Gotwals Principal Jeannette Fernandez and third grade teacher, Katie Ogoussan, who has led the Healthy Press...
September 2021…Healthy NewsWorks has been awarded a three-year grant by Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE), a Quest Diagnostics initiative that seeks to close gaps in healthcare in underserved communities. The grant is intended to help Healthy NewsWorks deepen its...
August 2021 … Because of everything our young reporters and their communities have experienced these past 18 months, from the pandemic to social unrest, we have chosen How We Heal: Moving Ahead in Challenging Times as our 2021-22 curriculum theme. Topics will...
August 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks adapted quickly when schools shut down in March 2020, pivoting to helping our students journalists conduct their interviews via video. It helped that we had a head start — we had invested in a digital learning management system a...
August 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks this summer had two interns through Bridging the Gap, an organization that links health-profession students with nonprofit community partners. Healthy NewsWorks was one of about 100 Bridging the Gap community partners this year....
