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Back-to-school update
September 2011⌠Dear Friends, In just a few weeks, our students will clutch their new reporter’s notebooks and set out to conduct their first interviews of the school year. For…
August 2011âŚÂ Editor’s note: We were fortunate to have two interns this summer: Emily Eisner, a sophomore at Dartmouth College, and Mimi Owusu, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania. Here,…
September 2011…Healthy NewsWorks will team up with Hope Partnership for Education during the fall of 2011 to launch a health journalism program at an independent middle school in North Philadelphia…
September 2011…Gotwals Elementary School in Norristown, Pa., has become the newest member of the Healthy NewsWorks student media program. Thirty third grade reporters have formed the first staff of the Gotwals Healthy Press under the leadership…
August 2011âŚAndrea Kenyon, a trained medical librarian, has joined the Healthy NewsWorks team. She said she hopes to help Healthy NewsWorks develop an electronic library of kid-friendly health information resources….
August 2011âŚDuring the past year, students in 12 schools produced 37 Healthy NewsWorks publications, including three translated into Spanish. Healthy nutritional choices and different ways of exercising were featured in…
June 2011…The Cole Manor Elementary School in Norristown, Pa., produced its second Spanish language issue this winter. The first Spanish language issue was produced in May 2010. Both issues were translated by Kristin…
May 2011…More than 120 people gathered May 21, 2011, in Haverford, Pa., to “get the scoop” on the Healthy NewsWorks student media program. The fundraising event featured remarks by Joseph A. Frick,…
May 2011…The National Education Association Foundation has posted a story and photos about the growth of healthy newspapers in the Norristown (PA) Area School District. Norristown teachers received $5,000 from the foundation two years ago…
May 2011…Participating students and teachers describe how the Healthy NewsWorks program works and what it means to them in a new six-minute video. The video was produced by Victoria Strickland,…
March 2011…Reporters for the Chestnutwold Healthy Times in Haverford Township, Pa., can now write and edit virtually by tapping into a Wiki — interlinked web pages that allow for the creation and editing of…
February 2011…The staff members of the Marshall Street Healthy Bulletin in Norristown, Pa., came up with an acrostic to encourage their fellow students to read the newspaper and explain its purpose….
