By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communication Specialist The click-clack of hooves on the tile floor of Laurel-Concord-Coleridge’s library should have, in theory anyways, been a foreign sound. There should have been looks of confusion and noses scrunched up in puzzlement, because this certainly wasn’t something you see on an average school day. And yet as Pippin, a four-year-old Shetland pony, made his...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist When teachers take a job in Fullerton, a rural town with a population just north of 1,000 located about 40 miles northeast of Grand Island, they usually stay awhile. There's just something about the place. One of four Blue Ribbon Award winners from the state of Nebraska in 2016, and one of just 280 nationwide, Fullerton Elementary has academically...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Specialist When teachers take a job in Fullerton, a rural town with a population just north of 1,000 located about 40 miles northeast of Grand Island, they usually stay awhile. There's just something about the place. One of four Blue Ribbon Award winners from the state of Nebraska in 2016, and one of just 280 nationwide, Fullerton Elementary has academically thrived on the...Read More
Six weeks ago, I started this journey of storytelling at NPSA with an idea of the kind of content I hoped to produce and a vision for what the website would eventually look like. Thanks to a few incredible story subjects, NPSA’s partnership with Nebraska Loves Public Schools, and heavy interaction from our rapidly-growing contingent of readers, NPSA has gained a lot of traction in a short amount...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist At Blair High School, a 20-minute highway cruise north of Omaha, agriculture students have a unique on-campus tool at their disposal in the form of a full-size greenhouse that, since last year, also houses an aquarium. Fourth-year teacher Jill Hensley, who graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln with a degree in Agricultural Education...Read More
By TYLER DAHLGREN NCSA Communications Specialist It is early afternoon on a rather balmy November Wednesday in North Omaha, the point in the school day where students start to let their concentration slip and the point in the school year where teachers begin to dream of a much-needed holiday break. At Wakonda Elementary, a school that has long faced an array of obstacles and a construed...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren Communications Specialist, NCSA Public schools throughout the state banded together on Friday to show their appreciation for those that have served in the United States military. Across Nebraska, students from kindergarten to junior high to the brink of graduation joined together to say thanks with special Veterans Day programs. In the gymnasium at Thayer Central High School,...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist An innovative and accommodating program when it was started nearly 20 years ago, Valley Alternative Learning Transition School in Scottsbluff has grown in size and success by holding on to original core values. Don’t give up on a student. No matter what. VALTS, an alternative education program designed to provide specialized instruction for...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist At Hastings High School, faculty and students alike are discovering the power of giving. The proof is in the pantry. The idea for an on-site food and supply pantry at the school first came about last year. The pantry itself, located across the hall from the office at the bottom of a set of stairs, opened in April. It’s been gaining traction and...Read More
By Tyler Dahlgren NCSA Communications Specialist Clark Kolterman’s story is one of man and community, and it started over 100 years ago. In his first life, as he likes to call it, Kolterman and his wife Linda ran a Ben Franklin store in Seward, which had been owned by his family since 1915. Clark and Linda were in their fifth-year of ownership when Walmart came to town in 1994, which forced the...Read More