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…
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Catching up with Beyond School Bells
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
Conservation Management Internship Program Field Journal, part 3
Over the past few weeks, Nebraska Children has been sharing Anna Wishart’s Field Journal highlighting the experiences she oversaw as a one of two mentors participating in Nebraska Children’s Conservation Management Summer Internship program. Building on the past two installments,…
Tagged with: Anna Wishart, beyond school bells, Conservation Management, Girls Inc., internship, Native Futures, STEM
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Conservation Management Internship Program Field Journal, part 2
Over the next several weeks, Nebraska Children is sharing Anna Wishart’s Field Journal highlighting the experiences she oversaw as a one of two mentors participating in Nebraska Children’s Conservation Management Summer Internship program. Building on last week’s blog, we pick…
Tagged with: Anna Wishart, Conservation Management, Girls Inc., internship, Native Futures, Sandhills, STEM
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Conservation Management Internship Program Field Journal, part 1
This summer, Beyond School Bells, a statewide partnership of Nebraska Children, worked with a coalition of partners to design and implement a summer internship program in conservation management. The program had multiple goals: to expose high school students to careers in…
Tagged with: Anna Wishart, beyond school bells, Conservation Management, Girls Inc., internship, Native Futures, STEM
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
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
Beyond School Bells unveils mobile maker lab in Nebraska
Beyond School Bells, a collaboration of Nebraska Children, recently unveiled TMC Labs. TMC (Think, Make, Create) labs is a 6’x12′ trailer that houses hands-on, interactive learning resources in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and the arts. We delivered the TMC Labs…
Reading and math: Tips for making words and numbers exciting before kindergarten
Language and literacy development Words are thoughts. The more words your child hears in his first years, the better positioned he will be to understand more advanced concepts in school. This does NOT mean that you need to do word…
