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Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Educational Service Unit 13 Opens New Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment School to Students

Educational Service Unit 13 Opens New Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment School to Students

December 4, 2020
News Release Scottsbluff, NE. – Educational Service Unit 13 (ESU 13) recently opened the doors of its new Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment Center, located at the Carpenter Center, 116 Terry Boulevard, Gering, NE. ESU 13, with funding from Sherwood Foundation Grant, completed construction of the Day Treatment center in August 2020. On Nov. 5th, ESU 13 received notice that it was awarded a $5,500...Read More

The Fraternity of Stripes: Administrators by day, officials by night find transferable skills in between

The Fraternity of Stripes: Administrators by day, officials by night find transferable skills in between

December 1, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren Not a whole lot rattles Jeff Schwartz at his day job. Considering he’s the principal of Axtell Community School, a PK-12 building, that’s saying something. Where does Schwartz’s resolve come from? Well, ask him about his night job. “It’s kind of funny,” he tells co-workers who compliment his calm composure. “I leave my regular job and go to a place where fans yell at me, and I...Read More

Friday Night Frights: In place of homecoming dance, Seward students bundle up, sit in for frightening flick

Friday Night Frights: In place of homecoming dance, Seward students bundle up, sit in for frightening flick

October 30, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren For the better part of eight months now, Seward students have rolled with the pandemic’s punches. “They’ve been resilient, as I think kids all across the state have been,” said Seward High School Vice Principal Jill Johnson. “They go with the flow. They know that wearing masks and social distancing when possible is what helps the health department in keeping us here.” Students...Read More

Seward second-graders bring books, library to life with Storybook Pumpkin Patch

Seward second-graders bring books, library to life with Storybook Pumpkin Patch

October 27, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren The library at Seward Elementary School beams with the same color and creativity that fill the pages of all the books packed into the shelves lining the room’s walls. Traditional October spooky sights, spiders and bats and cobwebs, dance below the ceiling and the cover of Dav Pilkey’s Halloween hit The Hallo-Wiener is displayed on the Smartboard sitting in “The Pit”. The way...Read More

The Aurora 99: Nearly a hundred strong, Huskies band is the beating heart of rich school tradition

The Aurora 99: Nearly a hundred strong, Huskies band is the beating heart of rich school tradition

October 22, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren The story behind how Aurora junior Elena Kuehner became involved in band is altogether simple and symbolic. Elena’s mother had a flute, and, even as a young kid, she had her sights set on one day playing said flute. The rest, as they say, is history. Elena is a junior drum major and plays, you guessed it, the flute in her school’s tradition-rich marching band. Prophecy fulfilled...Read More

Nobody Left Out: Oakland-Craig's new "Buddy Bench" is an elementary school playground-binder

Nobody Left Out: Oakland-Craig's new "Buddy Bench" is an elementary school playground-binder

October 7, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren On more days than not, Jess Bland supervises recess at Oakland-Craig Elementary School, where she’s in her seventh-year serving as principal in a Burt County community of just over a thousand that instantly felt a whole lot like home. Come to think of it, outside of the town where Bland grew up and graduated high school in, this place is the first she’s ever labelled as such...Read More

Putting Back the Pieces: Mindfulness around mental wellness sparks well-timed partnership

Putting Back the Pieces: Mindfulness around mental wellness sparks well-timed partnership

October 2, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren The first step Jen McNally took in her new partnership with Millard Public Schools was on to a stage to present on the importance of self care and mental wellness in front of the district’s administration. This was pre-pandemic, an engagement sparked by a session McNally had led at the State Education Conference earlier that fall. Following the session, several MPS...Read More

Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska Addressing the Gap in Concussion Management in the Classroom

Brain Injury Alliance of Nebraska Addressing the Gap in Concussion Management in the Classroom

October 1, 2020
Half of Nebraska teachers responded in a 2018 survey that they did not know how to manage concussions in the classroom and the same amount noticed an academic decline from students after sustaining a concussion or head injury. But finding a way to offer differentiated instruction to a student can be a challenge, especially with full classrooms and limited free time in a teacher’s schedule. Most...Read More

Beyond the Periodic Table: Teacher Feature with Alliance's Laura Schroer

Beyond the Periodic Table: Teacher Feature with Alliance's Laura Schroer

September 24, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren For 25 years, Laura Schroer has taught science in Alliance, Nebraska, a Panhandle town of about 8,000 people plotted in the vicinity of marvelous topography and breathtaking landscapes. “We have wonderful laboratories just outside of the door,” said Schroer, who throughout her years has instructed a wide range of high school science courses, from earth science to biology. “We...Read More

Robots in Rural Nebraska: Sky's the limit for RoboMath students in Arapahoe

Robots in Rural Nebraska: Sky's the limit for RoboMath students in Arapahoe

September 22, 2020
By Tyler Dahlgren The Andy Griffith Show’s unmistakable theme song rang out from the Piezo buzzer on Diana Hanzlick’s Arduino board as four fellow students gathered around the Arapahoe-Holbrook senior. The iconic jingle never missed a beat. In the background, Daniel Schaben’s classroom bustled with normal Wednesday morning operations. For his 10 RoboMath students, the best way to learn is to do...Read More

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