Street safety in Montreal

Street safety in Montreal

Healthy NewsWorks reporters this year are on focusing on the theme Caring for Our Community and Ourselves and considering topics such as public art, street safety, and noise pollution.  We…

Healthy NewsWorks is in more classrooms than ever

School is in full swing, and Healthy NewsWorks is in more classrooms than ever. “So many teachers want to get their kids involved,” said Mia Blitstein, Healthy NewsWorks program manager….

Thank you for making our first-ever auction such a success!

Update: We are thrilled by the success of our first-ever auction, which raised more than $4,000 to benefit our mission! Retired Flyers announcer Steve Coates did a fantastic job as…

Cub Reporters get tailor-made experience

Healthy NewsWorks’ newspaper program is designed to engage students as writers and readers—but did you know that we have special programs just for our youngest journalists?  Our Cub Reporters are…

‘How We Heal’ receives another accolade

Healthy NewsWorks’ award-winning film How We Heal has received yet another accolade—it has been retained by the International Children’s Media Center. That means our film has made the cut for…

Teen is an expert on microplastics

La Salle Academy Healthy News reporters recently interviewed a 17-year-old high school junior who created a robot to find microplastics in the ocean. Her name is Anna Du and she…

‘We grow vegetables. Our vegetables grow students’

By Waliyyah and the AMY Northwest Healthy Bulldog staff | We heard him before we saw him. Even though we were half asleep at 8:30 on a recent Monday morning,…

Guess the name of the native plant

A plant is considered native when it has existed in a place for many years and was not introduced by people, according to the National Wildlife Federation. Try to match…

Award-winning filmmaker brings his passions to HNW

Rodney Whittenberg, an award-winning filmmaker who works with Healthy NewsWorks on video projects, says he owes it all to his father. “From the time I was a little kid, my…

New Super Snacker curriculum focuses on nutrition

When you hear the word snack, what comes to mind? Be honest. Amy Deahl-Greenlaw, a registered dietitian nutritionist, explains in a new Healthy NewsWorks video what a healthy snack is….