Educators know that children who are hungry cannot learn. Hunger is an everyday reality for millions of children across the country – in a series of recent surveys, one in four families in the U.S. wi...
This blog is co-written by HIN staff member Annelise Cohon and Principal Daisy Greene as part of our week-long celebration for National School Breakfast Week. As you may have seen this week, NEA HIN r...
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month — and May 1 through 7 is National Physical Education (PE) and Sport Week! Our friends at SHAPE America have put together fun facts you can shar...
If you haven’t already read R.J. Palacio’s beautiful, moving and sometimes heartbreaking book, Wonder, run — don’t walk — to your library or favorite bookstore and pick i...
Back-to-school is always exhilarating. The new classes, teachers, and students always promise new adventures. We at NEA HIN want all those adventures to be healthy ones. That’s why we have new inform...
My mama always told me that I was “whole hog or none,” meaning I am really gung-ho about something and then I throw in the towel. And as much as I hate to admit it, this has often been the case when i...
A shocking report by Human Rights Watch has documented how children as young as 12 toil long hours in tobacco fields, exempt from child labor protections. Children have even fallen ill due to cases of...
Actor Jeff Bridges (National Spokesperson for No Kid Hungry) with Cathy Koehler (President of Little Rock Education Association) Recently, I was able to catch up with Cathy Koehler, President of the L...
For educators it can seem that stress is everywhere. Even positive events can be stressful. Stress can help people achieve peak performance – but too much stress can impair performance and be ha...
National School Lunch Week is one of my favorite weeks of the year. Not only because I am reminded of the wonderful school nutrition professionals that made sure I had something warm to eat every day,...