Nebraska Public School Advantage News

Nebraska Public School Advantage News

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

Lakeshore Learning: UNL, Ogallala-area students connect art and science on Big Mac

Lakeshore Learning: UNL, Ogallala-area students connect art and science on Big Mac

July 19, 2017
By Tyler Dahlgren The Natural Setting If you find yourself journeying northward on Highway 61 through Nebraska’s Sandhills, it’s impossible miss Lake McConaughy. The state’s largest body of water almost looks out of place. Beautifully out of place. A 21-mile long recreational oasis for boaters, fishers, windsurfers and everyone in between. You might, however, zip right past neighboring Lake...Read More

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

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