January Neihardt Events

Events taking place at the Neihardt Historic Site in January

Unified Bowling Team thanks Pender Lanes

New Dual Credit Math Course offering for second semester

Northeast Community College has approved Bancroft-Rosalie High School to pilot a new dual credit math course this spring. Technical Mathematics I will be taught by Mr. Dennis Zavadil. This course fulfills a General Education requirement in Mathematics for the Associate of Appiled Science degree programs, like auto body, auto tech, etc.

COURSE NUMBER: MATH 1020

COURSE TITLE: Technical Mathematics I

PRE-REQUISITES: Appropriate test score

CO-REQUISITES: None

DESCRIPTION:
This course provides the math skills required in career/technical fields. The course includes a review of arithmetic operations, exponents, algebraic operations, and right triangle trigonometry with emphasis placed applications.

CREDIT: 3 Lecture: 45 Lab: 0 Clinical Practicum: 0 Coop: 0



II. COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Course will:
1. Apply arithmetic properties
2. Apply measurement concepts to real-world applications
3. Apply ratios and proportions to problem-solving for technical applications
4. Apply formula manipulation and evaluation for problem solving for unknown values
5. Apply geometric formulas and concepts to problem solving of technical applications
6. Apply right triangle relationships to problem solving of technical applications.



This course fulfills a General Education requirement in Mathematics for the AAS degree(s). One goal of the course will be to practice and develop critical thinking/problem solving skills. In part, this will be modeled during class discussions and/or problem-solving activities. Students will use critical and creative thinking to arrive at reasoned conclusions using methods of quantitative reasoning, scientific inquiry and comparative thought. They will apply and evaluate knowledge, concepts, information, experience, theories and techniques to draw conclusions, arrive at solutions, select a course of action, or engage in artistic expression. Progress in this area will be assessed with the following graded assignment(s): embedded in exam questions

Hour of Code article from ESU 2 website

When the Code comes marching in

Bancroft-Rosalie, Fremont Middle School Hour of Code events

There are 163,550 Hour of Code events around the globe. Bancroft-Rosalie Technology Coordinator Joy Nolting and Fremont Middle School LIbrarian Cynthia Stogdill wanted their students to be in that number when the annual computer science event came marching in the week of December 5-11.

Nolting's Computer Applications class, which is 9th grade students, not only worked through the one-hour, no-experience-needed online tutorials produced by Code.org for 2016 but also started their two-day event with a coding activity gleaned from Breakout EDU, another online platform for immersive learning games.

Additionally, elementary students used some of the group activities, along with Kodable activities (elementary programming recommended by code.org).

Nolting said each year the Freshman Computer Applications students participate in the Hour of Code by choosing suggested activities on code.org.  Then, at the start of the second semester, students follow courses designed on Code.org. Students advance at their own pace through the course work. For students that quickly master the material, she uses extension activities and lessons from KhanAcademy's  "Intro to JavaScript: Drawing & Animation" course.

Black Elk Speaks named One Book One Nebraska

Governors Proclamation

Proclamation

WHEREAS,                           The Nebraska Center for the Book, Nebraska Library Commission, Humanities Nebraska, Neihardt Foundation, University of Nebraska Press, and other organizations across the state are urging all citizens of Nebraska to participate in the One Book One Nebraska Reads “Black Elk Speaks” initiative during the year 2017; and

WHEREAS,                           Nebraska author John G. Neihardt was named Nebraska’s first Poet Laureate in 1921 by the Nebraska legislature, wrote more than twenty-five books, served as a professor of poetry at the University of Nebraska, worked as a literary editor, and was inducted posthumously into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1974; and

WHEREAS,                           In 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, Nicholas Black Elk met the distinguished Nebraska poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt and he asked Neihardt to share his story with the world; and

WHEREAS,                           “Black Elk Speaks” is the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people, offering a precious glimpse of a vanished time and Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth; and

WHEREAS,                           Reading “Black Elk Speaks” in communities across Nebraska in 2017 (our Sesquicentennial year of statehood) provides common ground for Nebraska citizens of all ages to share their common experiences, reflect on the past, and contemplate the future—connecting Nebraskans across time and place.

NOW, THEREFORE,          I, Pete Ricketts, Governor for the State of Nebraska,

DO HEREBY PROCLAIM the year of 2017, as

ONE BOOK ONE NEBRASKA:

“BLACK ELK SPEAKS”

in Nebraska, and I do hereby urge all citizens to:

·Read “Black Elk Speaks;”

·Engage in discussion of “Black Elk Speaks;” and

Bancroft-Rosalie School Board News

The December meeting of the Bancroft-Rosalie School Board was held Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the school library. Dr. Cerny presented the November transportation report and November election certified results.

In new business, the board approved the 2015-16 audit and the 2015-16 annual report and reviewed the school health services program.

Discussion was held on a proposed resolution for a Joint Public Agency Agreement to create Pathways 2 Tomorrow. The resolution was tabled to the February Board meeting so that more information can be gathered.

The board approved the 2017-18 Negotiated Agreement with the Teachers with a 3.59% package increase.

Discussion was held on a feasibility study with Lyons-Decatur School. The board approved a contract for with Key Concepts to conduct the study.

Mr. Sjuts reported that all Fall coaches were recommended for the 2017-18 Fall sports season.

The board held an executive session to discuss Superintendent evaluation and the opening on the school board.

Pam Browning was appointed to a four year term to fill the vacancy on the school board.