Healthy NewsWorks partners with classroom teachers to deliver three school-based programs that develop student literacy skills and enhance health knowledge:

• Core Reporters (grades 3-8): a series of up to 24 lessons that develop students’ interviewing, writing, reporting, and research skills. Students create and publish school-based health newspapers and digital media on topics relevant to their peers and communities. Our 2024-25 theme is “Making Good Decisions.” Students will report about and reflect on topics such as getting enough sleep, dealing with peer pressure, and coping with challenging situations. They also can contribute to Healthy NewsWorks’ videos and print and e-magazine.
• Cub Reporters (grades K-3): a junior reporting program that includes three tracks: Hearty Kids (5 lessons on heart health), Super Snackers (5 lessons on nutrition), and Kind Kids (5 lessons on social/emotional skills). Classrooms may complete one, two, or all tracks. Each lesson helps students learn and practice reading, writing, research, and reporting skills. Reporters help write and illustrate a junior section for their school’s health newspaper.
• Special Lessons: offered to classrooms in schools that do not participate in the Core or Cub program. Lesson topics include writing about empathy, learning interviewing skills. and identifying reliable web-based sources.

In addition, Healthy NewsWorks has developed By Kids, For Kids (BKFK) as an online health news site written by and for children ages 5-14.