Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Best Possible Summer: Beatrice program fuses curriculum and imagination

Best Possible Summer: Beatrice program fuses curriculum and imagination

June 28, 2017
By TYLER DAHLGREN NCSA Communications Specialist This is not your father’s summer school. In fact, it’s not really summer school at all. Not in the traditional sense, anyway. Sure, there’s curricular guidelines complete with reading, math and social studies. And sure, the “Best Possible Summer” program takes place within the walls of Beatrice’s Stoddard Elementary school. Poke your head in a...Read More

40 Years of Excellence: ESU 11's nationally-recognized Summer Honors celebrates milestone

40 Years of Excellence: ESU 11's nationally-recognized Summer Honors celebrates milestone

June 22, 2017
By TYLER DAHLGREN NCSA Communications Specialist The brightest high school minds in South Central Nebraska, ESU 11’s 129 Summer Honors Program students radiate with potential. They’re smart, some sensationally so. Their brilliance is somewhat untapped, the full spectrum of a high school curriculum comfortably mastered. They’re pleasant, covered in smiles as they shuffle down the hallways of...Read More

The Highways of History: Garden County class takes applicable approach to the past

The Highways of History: Garden County class takes applicable approach to the past

June 8, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist History is vast, and the lessons within its boundaries are infinite. To get back to 1955, Doc Brown had his DeLorean, perhaps the most famous of all sci-fi time machines. Harry Potter stumbled upon a rare Time Turner. The Flash hopped on the Cosmic Treadmill and zipped back in time to square off with Professor Zoom. Cody Assmann has his classroom,...Read More

NCSA Ambassadors, NPSA move forward in corner of public schools

NCSA Ambassadors, NPSA move forward in corner of public schools

June 7, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist Keith Rohwer, Kyle McGowan and Cinde Wendell carved their careers in education, witnessing first-hand the overwhelming power of Nebraska’s public schools. When the Nebraska Council of School Administrators (NCSA) came calling with a unique post-retirement opportunity, the trio of former school administrators officially became the first “Ambassadors...Read More

5 Reasons to Love Nebraska's Public Schools

5 Reasons to Love Nebraska's Public Schools

June 6, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren 1: Nebraska’s Public Schools leave no child behind There’s a resounding commitment to accommodation in our state’s public schools. Each school seems to have adopted a motto declaring a commitment to educating and connecting with EVERY student that walks its hallways. There’s barriers, to be sure, but show me a challenge and I’ll show you a state filled with teachers and...Read More

Guidance in Growth: District OR-1 commitment to building character

Guidance in Growth: District OR-1 commitment to building character

May 18, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist There stands six pillars of character. Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility. Fairness. Caring. Citizenship. Pillars that, if upheld, can take a person into life’s far corners of success. Desirable traits on which Character Counts!, a Comprehensive Student Development Workshop (SDW), was founded. Just past the outskirts of Lincoln along Highway...Read More

A New Kind of Ceremony: Heartland Community Schools start a signing day tradition

A New Kind of Ceremony: Heartland Community Schools start a signing day tradition

May 15, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist National Signing Day is a nationwide frenzy, falling in early February each year and drawing the undivided attention of sports fans from coast to coast. It’s a well-deserved and memorable occasion for athletes, who pen their names on a dotted line, taking the first step towards the future. It’s evolved into a holiday of sorts, covered dutifully by...Read More

The Science of Serving: Lyons-Decatur senior finds passion, purpose in the lab

The Science of Serving: Lyons-Decatur senior finds passion, purpose in the lab

May 5, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist Students like Brock Vetick don’t come along often, and it didn’t take Lyons-Decatur Northeast science teacher Paul Timm more than 10 minutes to sense his incredible potential. “I could instantly see that he was interested,” Timm said. “I could also see that he had the skill set that could be easily developed.” That was more than five years ago,...Read More

All Hands on Deck: Standards and opportunity soar as enrollment at Cedar Bluffs spikes

All Hands on Deck: Standards and opportunity soar as enrollment at Cedar Bluffs spikes

May 1, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist The clock just ticked past 9:30 on Monday morning, and already Kevin Janssen is a busy man. About an hour ago, the morning bell rang through the halls of Cedar Bluffs and sent over 360 students scurrying to their desks. Five years ago, that number was just 168. The hallways were less vibrant, and the demands of the job likely less strenuous. But...Read More

From Small Town to Center Stage: Mike Smith's message inspires students at Jostens Renaissance

From Small Town to Center Stage: Mike Smith's message inspires students at Jostens Renaissance

April 21, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist Nationally-renowned speaker Mike Smith, founder of popular non-profits The Bay and Skate for Change, roused a Norris gymnasium packed tight with 2,000 students from over 20 Nebraska schools last Monday. His message was inspiring, simple and direct. All at once. "None of you are average,” the Imperial, NE native said. “Every single kid in here has...Read More

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