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

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

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

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