b'By Kids, For KidsMAGAZINE TEAMExecutive director: Marian UhlmanChief of staff: John LaChineProgram manager: Mia BlitsteinCommunity outreach manager: Diane DavisProgram associates: Sarah Lowing, Ginger Ragland, Steven Riggs, and Eve SmithCommunication associate: Meg GladieuxEditors: Judith Capar and Ted DuncombeGraphic designer: Andrea Miller Tan2024-2025SCHOOL PARTNERS AND FACULTY ADVISORS HEALTHY NEWSWORKS BOARDAlexander Adaire Fit Fish: Jessica Olavage Inquiry Charter Healthy Owl Times: Amy B. Ginensky, J.D., PresidentCatholic Partnership Schools Healthy Courier:Kelly Walsh and Hope Perna James W. Buehler, M.D., Vice PresidentDeirdre Rood, Holy Name James Logan Healthy Eagle: Brieanna Caillot Andrew D. Magnus, Vice PresidentJeanne Woerner, St. Cecilia James Lowell Healthy Lion: Jackie Martin Laurita Hack, D.P.T., M.B.A., Ph.D.,Danielle Guernon, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral La Salle Academy Healthy News: SecretaryChester Charter Scholars Academy HealthyTamisha Edwards H. George Shoffner, C.P.A., TreasurerHighlights: Tracie HorkanMaST Community Charter Healthy Panther Post:Luther T. Clark, M.D.Cole Manor Healthy Comet: Lindsay Armour Louis CostanzoKristen A. Feemster, M.D., M.P.H., Davenport Healthy Press: Katie Ogoussan Russell Byers Healthy Knight News: M.S.H.P.Julia de Burgos Healthy Super Tiger: Clare Dempsey Moriah Hall, M.P.H.Julia Gutman and Sara Sheekey Isaac A. Sheppard Healthy Shark: Katherine Hatton, J.D.DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal: Markus Gill and Diana Durn Blair Jones, M.B.A.Christopher Leonard William Cramp Fit Flyer: Melissa Morales Omar D. JosephEast Norriton Bulldog Bulletin: William Rowen Healthy Roar: Martha E. Morse, J.D. Victoria Strickland Tamir Brown-Desper Elizabeth Rappaport, M.D.Eleanor C. Emlen Healthy Roar: Shantee Crump Deborah Stern, M.A.T., Ph.D.Shoba Babu, J.D., Board ObserverVol. 3, No. 12025 Healthy NewsWorks. All rights reserved.Dear Student: other experts and community leaders. We hope our students work will You are making decisions every day,inspire you to consider your own from when you go to sleep to howdecision-making. Whats a good much time you spend on your phone.decision you made recently? Whats And you will be making decisionsbig and smallfor the rest of your life.a decision youd like to do over? What This issue of By Kids, For Kids magazinesteps do you follow when you need focuses on Making Good Decisions,to make a hard decision? Let us know which our student reporters in gradesif youd like to share your story or an 4 to 8 have researched throughoutillustration about decision-making the 202425 school year.(send to editor@healthynewsworks.You will find interviews, illustrations,org), and well consider putting it on reflections, games, book reviews,our By Kids, For Kids web platform: and more in the pages that follow.healthynewsworks.org/by-kids-for-Our reporting teams have talked to akids/.professor who studies how the brainHappy reading! makes decisions, a therapist who talked about friendship, and a doctorThe Editors who practices mindfulness, amongBy Kids, For Kids2B Y K I D S , F O R K I D S | S p r i n g 2 0 2 5'