Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Where Seeds are Sown: Committee reaches out, connects with Chadron community

Where Seeds are Sown: Committee reaches out, connects with Chadron community

October 18, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren The Committee Chadron Public Schools have long leaned on strategic planning, a necessity for similar western Nebraska towns where stakeholder input carries substantial and influential value. Vice President of Chadron’s Board of Education, Sandy Roes speaks candidly about the importance of engagement. “We live and die by collaboration,” Roes said. “We don’t have the resources to...Read More

Character Works, Indeed: Broken Bow elementary students grow with added responsibilities

Character Works, Indeed: Broken Bow elementary students grow with added responsibilities

September 28, 2017
BY TYLER DAHLGREN NCSA COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST They sit around a conference table in Broken Bow’s North Park Elementary School, five calm and collected 6th-graders ready to field any questions that may come their way. It’s Wednesday, so I break the ice with a “Hump Day” quip, which draws a couple of laughs. Common ground. We’re all just working for the weekend. They’re about to be interviewed...Read More

A Student Body's Stewardship: PALs program fosters relationships at Falls City

A Student Body's Stewardship: PALs program fosters relationships at Falls City

September 21, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist There was a kickball game in Falls City’s famous Jug Brown Stadium Wednesday morning. And to the casual passerby, it looked like just that. A rather large group of high school students, far more than the regulatory 10 per side, taking a 30-minute reprieve from the classroom to have some fun under an usually strong autumn sun. On the sideline, Katy...Read More

10 Insights From Nebraska Students That Moved Us

10 Insights From Nebraska Students That Moved Us

September 18, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist Last week, we revisited 10 particularly moving insights from educators across the state that we were lucky enough to visit with and feature over the last year. This week, it's the students' turn to talk. S-E-M Junior Lindsey Dittmar *From Sep 6 NPSA article “More Than Meets the Ears: Music unifies students at S-E-M” “I am a part of as much as I can...Read More

10 Insights From Nebraska Educators That Moved Us

10 Insights From Nebraska Educators That Moved Us

September 14, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist A full year of storytelling is in the books, and while NPSA can't wait to visit more of Nebraska's public schools (the content schedule is filling quickly, so contact news@ncsa.org with any good leads!), we thought we'd revisit some of the most moving insights from administrators and teachers to date. 1.) ESU 13 Director of LifeLink Pam Brezenski *...Read More

More Than Meets the Ears: Music unifies students at S-E-M

More Than Meets the Ears: Music unifies students at S-E-M

September 6, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist The Song of SEM For a school to have a solid music program, Justin Bosak says, there must be a sturdy foundation in place. Every good band, and every good choir, ensembles that win contests and raise eyebrows in the middle of a high school basketball game, have one thing in common. Numbers. When Bosack came to Sumner-Eddyville-Miller (SEM) Public...Read More

Totality Awesome: S-E-M students, staff take in historic eclipse, together

Totality Awesome: S-E-M students, staff take in historic eclipse, together

August 24, 2017
By TYLER DAHLGREN NCSA Communications Specialist The countdown was on, and, as the moon blanketed more and more of the sun mid-Monday, excitement on the Sumner-Eddyville-Miller football field grew in anticipation for the moment of totality. No one, not the teachers, administration, students or community members, knew exactly what to expect, but they were gathered to take in a historic experience...Read More

"Seeds of Hope" a moving exploration of the education of NE's refugee, immigrant students

"Seeds of Hope" a moving exploration of the education of NE's refugee, immigrant students

August 23, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communication Specialist “If you can wish for anything, you can do it.” Those words, from 2017 Omaha Northwest graduate Kalpana Gurung, come near the end of “Seeds of Hope”, the latest documentary from Nebraska Loves Public Schools. That message, one of hope, reverberates throughout the entirety of the moving, 35-minute exploration into the education of immigrant and...Read More

New Nebraska documentary on immigrant and refugee students to premiere in Omaha Sept. 13, Lincoln Sept. 14

New Nebraska documentary on immigrant and refugee students to premiere in Omaha Sept. 13, Lincoln Sept. 14

August 16, 2017
OMAHA, Neb. – Nebraska Loves Public Schools – a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting public education through film – will host two screenings of its new immigrant and refugee documentary in Omaha and Lincoln, 7 p.m. Sept. 13 and Sept. 14, respectively. Events will feature interactive Q&A with cast and film director, and Take Action reception with area nonprofits Seeds of Hope, from...Read More

Eagle Pride: The Story of a School

Eagle Pride: The Story of a School

August 15, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist The First Chapter If you need a reminder of what Milford Public Schools are all about, just look at a wall. Almost any wall in the elementary school or the JR/SR high school will do. "Everyone has a story. Make yours worth telling." That’s their motto, and it’s not just teacher-speak or a clever slogan that exists strictly to forge a phony façade...Read More

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