The 2022 Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) Girls and Boys Basketball Championships will be held Monday, March 7 through Saturday, March 12 in Lincoln.
The University of Nebraska will be hosting the 2022 Big Ten Conference Wrestling Championships March 5 and March 6 in Lincoln at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.
The NSAA, Lincoln Convention and Visitors Bureau, University of Nebraska, Pinnacle Bank Arena and Lincoln Public Schools are committed to providing a championship experience for Nebraska’s best in girls and boys basketball.
All of the 2022 NSAA Girls and Boys Basketball Championship Finals will be televised live on NET on Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12. A full schedule for the 2022 girls and boys basketball postseason and state championship events will be released at a later date.
Questions can be directed to NSAA Executive Director, Jay Bellar or NSAA Basketball Director, Jon Dolliver.
Five athletes have qualified for the Norfolk Classic Track meet to be held this Thursday.
Alyssa Bucholz- Discus
Mason Dolezal- Long Jump and 4x400 relay
Micah Henschen- 800 m and 4x400 relay
Kole Bacon- 800 m and 4x400 relay
Elliott Nottlemann- 4x400 relay
The games will be played Monday July 26 in Lincoln.
Players selected-
Boys: Kwat Abdelkarim, Lincoln North Star; Drew Beukelman, Lincoln Christian; Cam Binder, Auburn; Kaleb Brink, Elkhorn Mount Michael; Graham Cassoutt, Papillion-La Vista South; Trey Deveaux, Norris; Charlie Fletcher, Omaha Skutt; Carter Glenn, Lincoln East; Kallan Herman, Norfolk; Sam Hoiberg, Lincoln Pius X; Dei Jengmer, Grand Island Central Catholic; Denim Johnson, Omaha Central; Jack Johnson, Kearney; Trevor Kasischke, Wahoo; Ryan Larsen, Millard West; Ater Louis, Bellevue East; Ty Nekoliczak, Central Valley; Tyler Riley, Platteview; Tyler Sandoval, Millard North; Dane Storer, Paxton; Brady Timm, Yutan; Colton Uhing, Elkhorn; Lucas Vogt, BRLD; Cade Wiseman, Sutton. Coaches: Bruce Chubick Sr., Omaha South, Tim Cannon, Millard North. Assistant coaches: Michael Baker, Alliance; Jon Ladehoff, Sutton.
Girls: Jillian Aschoff, Alexis Markowski, Lincoln Pius X; Lauren Baker, Fremont Bergan; Cece Behrens, Omaha Skutt; Boston Boucher, Wood River; Grace Cave, Weeping Water; Kate Dilsaver, Lincoln Southwest; Charli Earth, Fremont; Maddy Elwood, Bennington; CeCe Hacker, Aryannah Harrison, Omaha Marian; Gracie Haneborg, North Platte; Mak Hatcliff, Beatrice; Avery Kallman, Gretna; Samantha Moore, Mullen; Hannah Newton, Crete; Tate Nordblade, Papillion-La Vista South; Maddie Portwine, York; Lacy Sprakel, Crofton; Brianna Stai, Norris; Kali Staples, Broken Bow; Sidney Swanson, West Point-Beemer; Caragan Tietz, BRLD; Allison Weidner, Humphrey St. Francis. Coaches: Kelly Cooksley, Broken Bow; Bob Hayes, Ponca. Assistant coaches: Jeff Rump, Lincoln Southwest; John O'Connor, Bennington.
Every five years Nebraska Schools are required to have an external team review the schools progress on their School Improvement Plan. Our school plan has two goals- Increasing student vocabulary scores and Increasing student engagement. One measure of student engagement is through a student perception survey. Bancroft-Rosalie has modified the Elementary Student Survey from the Nebraska Department of Education.
The elementary survey will be a google form that is answered anonymously by students in grades 3-6. The survey can be previewed below. Parents can request to not have their students take the survey.
Bancroft-Rosalie staff met yesterday after-school and approved the following protocol changes.
Protocol changes beginning Monday April 19
1. All students will enter the Main entrance in the morning beginning at 7:30 am. The elementary entry doors will be locked. Elementary students will wait in the gym until breakfast is available. Students will continue to eat in their rooms.
2. Afterschool program clubs will begin. This will involve the mixing of grades.
3. Elementary students can return to mixed classroom recesses.
3. Outside foods can be delivered to school at noon.
4. Parents can visit the building.
5. Outside visitors such as approved speakers and volunteers will be allowed. Examples would be 4-H extension and college recruiters.
Protocols to remain in place
1. Six foot separation between student desks in the classroom and at lunch
2. Masking by students and staff will continue.
3. Temp checks at the door.
Yesterday after school parents contacted the school to notify us that someone in the area had posted questionable comments on Facebook about a plan to commit felonies. The school was not mentioned in the posts.
Law enforcement was contacted by several community members and the State Patrol, Cuming County Sheriff, and Bancroft Chief of Police responded and addressed the situation.
Out of precaution, we kept brought the afterschool program students inside and secured the building. A deputy and the Bancroft Police were parked in the school parking lot during that time.
Alix Nolting is the state champion in FFA Animal systems 3. She will represent our school at Nationals next Fall. He project is "Slowing algae growth in livestock water tanks."
Luke Kramer was selected for the Nebraska Community Foundation Hometown Intern Program. He will intern with Cuming County Economic Development this summer.
A Hometown Intern is a current college student who has completed at least one year of schooling and lives at home for the summer. The intern will discover and document the assets and abundance of their homeplace. They will help facilitate conversations with community members regarding these assets and opportunities, and they will co-create opportunities to mobilize these local assets to increase community quality of life. Students will be compensated for their work, but housing will not be provided.
The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) and the Nebraska State College System (NSCS) are pleased to announce the recipients of the inaugural 2020-2021 Nebraska State Colleges Multi-Activity Student Award. The award recognizes students in grades 9-12 who participate in at least three NSAA sanctioned activities during the academic year. The Multi-Activity Student Award is based solely on each member school’s eligibility list submitted through the NSAA website. Each high school student who meets the NSAA eligibility criteria will be recognized and awarded a certificate of achievement.
Bancroft-Rosalie recipients:
Kole Bacon Kyra Bargmann Alejandro Barragan Aubrey Berg Emma Beutler Lilly Beutler Megan Beutler Isabella Bonneau Ella Bridges Colten Briggs Alyssa Buchholz Hunter Carpenter Michael Cooney Kennedi Cooper Samryn Dick Misola Fukushima Gabrielle Gatzemeyer Tyler Gatzemeyer Gus Gomez Ryker Gomez Micah Henschen Grace Johnson Cale Kai MaKenna King Audra Knapp Lauren Kramer Heather Marr McKenzie Murphy Aidan Nelson Alix Nolting Audra Nolting Alexzi Nottlemann Elliott Nottlemann Alannah Osborne Elyse Raasch Maria Ras Treylynn Sheridan Cordarrell Spears Taylea Spears Caragan Tietz Ross Tremayne Zora Villanueva Stephanie Wiese
In 1976 the State dedicated the John G. Neihardt State Historic Site in Bancroft. Today the site is an affiliate of History Nebraska and is managed by the John G. Neihardt Foundation, which is planning events to commemorate the centennial of Neihardt’s selection as poet laureate.
Blogpost found at https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/why-john-g-neihardt-was-named-nebraska-poet-laureate-1921
One hundred years ago, on April 18, 1921, the Nebraska state legislature became the first to name a state poet laureate, honoring forty-year-old John G. Neihardt of Bancroft.
What prompted the legislature to bestow this unprecedented honor?
The answer has to do with the veneration of classical Greek and Roman literature plus Nebraska’s recent frontier status. The event also demonstrates how our interpretation of American history has changed since then, and how Neihardt played a role in that.
The legislature’s resolution cited Neihardt’s American epic poem-in-progress, a five-part work eventually titled A Cycle of the West. The poet had completed the first two books by 1921. Both celebrated the “mountain men” of the Missouri River fur trade era. The legislature recognized Neihardt’s
“national epic wherein he has developed the mood of courage with which our pioneers explored and subdued our plains, and thus has inspired in Americans that love of the land and its heroes whereby great national traditions are built and perpetuated.”
Two phrases are important here: “national epic” and “subdued our plains.”
Did you read The Odyssey in high school? Students still read some of the Greek and Roman classics, but those works have lost their central place in our idea of what it means to be educated. When Neihardt was young, a traditional college education involved the study of Greek and Latin so that one could read the classics in the original languages. Most people never went to college, and fewer still mastered the ancient languages, but the idea remained that epic poetry in the style of Homer and Virgil was a supreme expression of a nation’s cultural legacy.
Meanwhile, Nebraska in 1921 was a pretty rough and unromantic place—dirt roads, small farms, and plenty of work that was still horse-powered. Then as now, most Nebraskans thought of themselves as practical-minded people. A common opinion in Bancroft was that Neihardt was the sort of dreamy oddball who never gets ahead in the world.
But to people who read his work in the light of the adventures of Achilles and Odysseus, it was a big deal that a fellow Nebraskan was doing for Western American history what the ancient bards had done for Greece and Rome. These people felt that Neihardt was validating their national story, placing Americans in general and Westerners in particular within a grand and noble tradition.
Today we hear the arrogance in the phrase “subdued our plains,” with its preemptive claim of ownership and its erasure of the Native people who were subdued. But this is where the legislature’s statement proved ironic. Neihardt made Native peoples the protagonists in two of the Cycle’s later books: The Song of the Indian Wars (1925) and The Song of the Messiah (1935). To an unusual degree for a White man of his generation, he attempted to give Native peoples equal status in his portrayal of Western history.
To further the irony, today Neihardt is best remembered for a side project that came from his research for the Cycle. He based his 1932 book Black Elk Speaks on interviews with Lakota spiritual leader Nicholas Black Elk. Neihardt’s interpretation of Lakota culture continues to receive both praise and criticism, but he was striving toward a more inclusive vision of America than people anticipated in 1921.
The Nebraska State Board of Education approved the Bancroft-Rosalie School renewal application for the 21st Century Community Learning Center grant at their April 2nd meeting. Congratulations!
The grant will provide $50,000 per year for the next five years to support the DEN after-school program.
Nebraska’s 21st CCLC grant program creates an afterschool environment focused on improving overall student academic success, increasing positive behavior and social interaction, and increasing active and meaningful family and community engagement. Currently there are programs in 35 communities serving 150 school building populations. Continuation grants are being awarded to 11 quality programs that have successfully implemented 21st CCLC programming in 22 sites. Bancroft-Rosalie School is one of these programs receiving a continuation grant to serve the elementary and middle school students grades K-8.
Starting in April 2021, Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) benefits will be issued to eligible students. Families do not need to apply for these benefits. Benefits will be issued to students who meet the criteria:
• Determined eligible for free or reduced-price school meals by Direct Certification through SNAP, TANF or Medicaid eligibility for school year 2020-21.
• Attend a school that has been closed or operating at reduced attendance or hours for at least 5 consecutive days. Eligible students that have opted-in for fully remote learning or experienced a quarantine for a minimum of five consecutive days will also qualify for P-EBT benefits.
Our district will submit student eligibility data to the Nebraska Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. Eligible students will receive funds monthly based on their learning mode (split/hybrid schedule -$62 or fully remote- $116). Information on how to use the cards will be issued with the cards. Additional information on the P-EBT assistance program can be found on USDA’s website and the DHHS EBT webpage.
