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More than a Memory: Looking Back at Changemakers and Forward to the Changes We’re Making
Tagged with: Changemakers, early childhood, early childhood education, education, middle childhood, prevention
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Changemakers Pre-Party: Celebrating the People and Organizations Who Create Positive Change
What celebration doesn’t have a pre-party? In honor of our upcoming Changemakers celebration, we look back in gratitude at our community members that have facilitated positive change for Nebraska’s children and families. As we look back at these past few…
Facebook competition highlights importance of parent engagement
Earlier this spring, a handful of Omaha middle schoolers earned the opportunity to travel to California to attend Facebook’s Engineer for the Week Achievement Summit at the company’s headquarters. The team of three students came from the Boys & Girls…
Tagged with: afterschool, beyond school bells, collective for youth, omaha, parent engagement, STEM, STEM learning
Posted in Cradle to career, Middle Childhood, News and Events
Posted in Cradle to career, Middle Childhood, News and Events
Catching up with Beyond School Bells
Trying to track down Jeff Cole, Network Lead for Beyond School Bells, is not an easy task at the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation office in Lincoln. But when you look at everything the Beyond School Bells initiative has been…
Tagged with: beyond school bells, Civic Nebraska, elo, expanded learning opportunities, Innovation Fellowship, STEM, STEM learning, Think Make Create Labs, TMC Labs
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events
Nebraska Children’s Beyond School Bells hosts fifth annual Stakeholders Summit
On October 26, Beyond School Bells hosted its fifth annual Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Stakeholder’s Summit. Approximately 60 stakeholders representing various interests and perspectives attended this half-day event, which was held in Nebraska Children’s Lincoln offices. The summit opened with…
Tagged with: Anna Wishart, beyond school bells, elos, expanded learning opportunities, mobile makerspace, Stakeholders Summit, think make create, TMC Labs
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events
Nebraska’s ELO Design Challenge: Opening New Doors to Learning
Opportunity knocked. Beyond School Bells and a strong coalition of districts and partners from around the state responded. Beyond School Bells (BSB), a public-private partnership at Nebraska Children, is proud to be a lead partner in Nebraska’s Expanded Learning Opportunity…
Tagged with: afterschool, beyond school bells, design challenge, elo, STEM
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events
Camp Catch-Up spotlight: Seeking staff
In our last blog post, we told you about Camp Catch-Up, a special place where siblings who are separated by foster care placement can spend a weekend together canoeing, hiking, trying ropes courses, and more – all while rekindling their connections…
Tagged with: camp catch-up, volunteering
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Camp Catch-Up spotlight: Calling all campers
Have you heard of Camp Catch-Up? It’s a special place where siblings who are separated by foster care placement can spend a weekend together canoeing, hiking, trying ropes courses, and more – all while rekindling their connections with each other.…
Summer wrap-up: Keeping kids learning outside of school hours
In Nebraska, we are blessed with one of the nation’s best public school systems, thanks to long-term investments by generations of Nebraskans in the future of our state and our most precious resource: our youth. While we at Nebraska Children…
Posted in Middle Childhood
Beyond School Bells, part 6: Community partnerships
Over the course of six weeks, the Nebraska Children blog has invited Jeff Cole, Associate Vice President of School-Community Partnerships for Beyond School Bells, to write some guest posts sharing his program’s work. In my final installment as guest blogger,…
Posted in Middle Childhood, Uncategorized
Growing the Good Life 