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Learning, a Lifelong Endeavor: A Look Inside Kearney’s Teacher In-Service Day

Learning, a Lifelong Endeavor: A Look Inside Kearney’s Teacher In-Service Day

September 27, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren Growing up, teacher in-service days meant one thing and one thing only: No alarm clock. Remember the adolescent joys of sleeping in on a well-deserved day off from school? The Full House reruns and the tones of The Price is Right host Bob Barker’s oddly comforting voice. How about the microwaved Pizza Rolls and free reign of the remote control? Couldn't beat that. Yes, those...Read More

A Return to the Partner-Up Rodeo: This Nebraska rodeo, which will warm your heart and lift your spirits, is made for everybody

A Return to the Partner-Up Rodeo: This Nebraska rodeo, which will warm your heart and lift your spirits, is made for everybody

September 21, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren It was the perfect day for a rodeo, with temperatures in the mid-70’s and the wind low, a date North Platte freshman Cash Johanson has had circled on his calendar for much of the year. At 15-years-old, Cash showed up to the Wild West Arena last Wednesday an old pro. The Partner-Up Rodeo, which matches student volunteer “partners” with students with special needs, is one of his...Read More

A Race Against Time: With community’s backing, Plainview Elementary rallies in the wake of destructive storm

A Race Against Time: With community’s backing, Plainview Elementary rallies in the wake of destructive storm

August 31, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren The Storm For a moment, it looked like a hurricane ripping through the Midwestern Plains. That’s the best superintendent Dr. Darron Arlt can explain the storm that literally blew the roof off Plainview Elementary late in the afternoon on July 10, setting off a five-week race against time before students were to return from summer break. “It looked like what I’ve seen on the...Read More

The Principal Plunge: Rubber ducks and family bonding at Park Elementary’s back-to-school celebration

The Principal Plunge: Rubber ducks and family bonding at Park Elementary’s back-to-school celebration

August 24, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren Park Elementary is located on the edge of Kearney’s Harmon Park, a sprawling oasis for summertime fun that is easily the biggest in the city. Perhaps some of its surrounding environment has rubbed off on the school, which celebrated the return of students with its annual Panther Family Swim Night. There’s no better way to start a school year than with a splash of fun and...Read More

Broken Bow Splashes into New School Year: District welcomes students, families back with a pool party bash

Broken Bow Splashes into New School Year: District welcomes students, families back with a pool party bash

August 21, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren Almost perfectly in sync, Darren Tobey and Dan Helberg sprinted across the low and high dives and sprung into a sun-soaked sky. For passers-by on nearby Airport Road, that exact moment had to be quite the site . Two suited school administrators soaring through the air, with only water there to break the fall. The rather graceful plunge was punctuated by a pair of cannonballs and...Read More

Swedes "Ready to Glow" in New Year: Back to school is a community-wide cause for celebration in Gothenburg

Swedes "Ready to Glow" in New Year: Back to school is a community-wide cause for celebration in Gothenburg

August 18, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren Class is back in session. In Gothenburg, that's a major cause for celebration. While schools everywhere welcomed students back from summer break with open arms this week, the district in Central Nebraska called on its community to commence another great year. It was “Back to School Night”, and judging by the school’s packed parking lots and car-lined streets, the place in town...Read More

Safety training on the brink of “Back to School” season brings districts and first responders together at ESU 16

Safety training on the brink of “Back to School” season brings districts and first responders together at ESU 16

August 14, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren In Nebraska’s ever-evolving quest for the best school safety practices, it has proven beneficial for districts to take a proactive rather than reactive approach. Why? Well, there’s the obvious answer of preventing things before they happen. Ultimately, that’s the goal, and it has been for decades. Ogallala Public Schools superintendent Gene Russel went even deeper, bridging the...Read More

The Quintessential Summer: Gering Public Schools, Scottsbluff Family YMCA team up on Summer Sun, Food and Fun Day Camp

The Quintessential Summer: Gering Public Schools, Scottsbluff Family YMCA team up on Summer Sun, Food and Fun Day Camp

July 6, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren The need for something like Gering’s new Summer Sun, Food and Fun Day Camp has existed for awhile; a 10-week, full-day camp for elementary-aged students that blends education and fun in The Panhandle’s great outdoors. In other words, the quintessential summer experience. Out here, you’ll quickly learn, where there’s a need, there’s a way. There’s usually a will, too. Especially...Read More

The Summer Scholars: Hanny Arram Center for Success academy gives Kearney middle-schoolers a kickstart to summer fun

The Summer Scholars: Hanny Arram Center for Success academy gives Kearney middle-schoolers a kickstart to summer fun

June 21, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren It’s a Monday morning in June, and the Hanny Arram Center for Success summer scholars are up and at it, sending waves of laughter down Kearney’s 6th Avenue. The theme for the third and final week of their Summer Scholars Academy is “Fun in the Sun”, and the weather is cooperating. So, too, are the 10 middle schoolers, who are enjoying themselves after two studious weeks of...Read More

After touring ESU 5 schools, ESU 16 puts its own spin on innovative mental health program out west

After touring ESU 5 schools, ESU 16 puts its own spin on innovative mental health program out west

June 14, 2023
By Tyler Dahlgren Internal conversations at ESU 16 in Ogallala around mental health had been going on for two years when members of the service unit’s administrative team stepped in front of the mirror and came to an honest conclusion. “The model we had in place was pretty clinical, and our discussions gave us this sense that we weren’t reaching all of the students we serve,” said ESU 16...Read More

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