Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Nebraska Public School Advantage News

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Tyler Dahlgren *This five-part article was originally published in the summer edition of the NCSA Today magazine. Part One: Initial Response “Talk about a whirlwind.” Superintendent Dr. Travis Miller and the administrative team at Bayard Public Schools had been keeping an eye on international news, and first dove into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s flu pandemic guidelines in...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren John Lennon’s eyes were hidden behind those iconic sunglasses when Joselyn Andreasen put the finishing touches on the legend’s famous talisman necklace with her paint brush and took a step back. There she was, a 2020 Blair High School graduate, standing in the most-traveled hallway of her alma-mater. More than nine months in the making, her mural was finally finished. Lennon was...Read More

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