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“Leading Healthy Change” authors and illustrators spread health message at Norristown ShopRite

“Leading Healthy Change” authors and illustrators spread health message at Norristown ShopRite

September 2012 …Eight student authors and illustrators of “Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities” from Norristown schools participated in a book-signing event at the ShopRite of East Norriton. ShopRite graciously…
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Healthy NewsWorks website offers teachers and student reporters an online resource center

September 2012… Teachers and student reporters in participating Healthy NewsWorks schools can now access a section of the Healthy NewsWorks website to obtain resource information to help make their healthy…
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Gotwals reporters tour new medical facility

September 2012… Four fourth grade journalists from Gotwals Elementary School, along with their teacher Katie Sortino, toured the new 146-bed, $350 million Einstein Medical Center Montgomery (EMCM) hospital in East…
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Student journalists learn how to have a beautiful, bright smile

Editor’s note: Independence Blue Cross Foundation recently invited a dozen Healthy NewsWorks reporters to Philadelphia to a press conference with Kids Smiles. The story below was reported and written by…
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Students attend press conference at Independence Blue Cross Foundation

July 2012… A dozen Healthy NewsWorks student reporters learned about dental health at a press conference in Philadelphia hosted by Independence Blue Cross Foundation and moderated by WHYY reporter Carolyn Beeler….
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Healthy Hawk journalist writes a first-person account of a press conference about dental care

Editor’s note: Independence Blue Cross Foundation recently invited a dozen Healthy NewsWorks reporters to Philadelphia to a press conference with Kids Smiles. The story below was reported and written by…
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Recognition for Norristown authors

June 2012… The Norristown Area School District recently paid tribute to the student journalists involved in producing Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities, a book featuring profiles of a dozen…
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Saying thanks in Norristown

June 2012… Students, teachers, and administrators from the Norristown Area School District celebrated the end of the 2011-12 school year at a recent event featuring Tanya Thampi-Sen, community nutrition program…
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Community Celebrates book launch

June 2012… Healthy NewsWorks officially launched its first book, “Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities,” at its spring fundraiser and book-signing event on May 31. Student journalists signed copies of…
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Video: What students are learning

June 2012… Students from the Hope Partnership for Education in North Philadelphia speak in this two-minute video about what they’ve learned through the Healthy NewsWorks student media program. The students…
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