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 Greetings and happy holidays from the Hastings College Teacher Education Department! We hope the holidays are filled with joy for you.
We appreciate the occasional emails or notes we receive from graduates. Thank you for keeping in touch! We are eager to be of assistance to you, and we love to hear about your experiences as teachers, administrators, graduate students, coaches or substitutes.
Included below is the list of our first-year teachers and the schools where they are teaching. Congratulations! Please let us know if we have missed anyone. We want to celebrate our graduates' successes.
We've also included pictures and information from our 2014 Jackson trip (a group photo is above). I hope the pictures and article cause many of you to think back on your own awesome J-term trip to Jackson or Belize or Rosebud or Denver or Omaha or Chicago.
This spring when you receive our graduate follow-up survey, will you be sure to reply? Please let us know what experiences were especially meaningful and how we can make our program even better.
Happy Holidays,
Dr. Kass Rempp
Professor and Chair
Hastings College Teacher Education Department
krempp@hastings.edu
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Congratulations First Year Teachers!
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- Dane Bacon - Leonard Lawrence Elementary School, Bellevue, Nebraska
- Chip Bartos - Wausa Public Schools, Wausa, Nebraska
- Drake Beranek - Holdrege Middle School,
Holdrege, Nebraska - Kristin Cloet - Starr Elementary School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Kinsi Coleman - Alma High School, Alma, Nebraska
- Andrea Ehrke - Holdrege Middle School,
Holdrege, Nebraska - Tracia Ferguson - Lincoln Elementary School,
Hastings, Nebraska - Ryan Garder - Gretna High School, Gretna, Nebraska
- Sydney Gartner - St. Edward Elementary School,
St. Edward, Nebraska - Hannah Gloe - Starr Elementary School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Jacob Hamburger - Papillion-La Vista South High School, Papillion, Nebraska
- Doyle Hanshaw - Franklin Public Schools,
Franklin, Nebraska - Jennifer Harlow - Central City Elementary School, Central City, Nebraska
- Kyla Havranek - Cedar Hollow School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Mark Hewitt - Millard North High School,
Omaha, Nebraska - Melinda Holeman - Silver Lake High School,
Roseland, Nebraska - Christa Holmberg - Rock County High School,
Bassett, Nebraska - Brittany Horton - Christ Lutheran Elementary School, Juniata, Nebraska
- Stephanie Hoyt - Sandy Creek Elementary,
Fairfield, Nebraska - Courtney Hubl - High Plains Community Schools,
Polk, Nebraska - Natasha Jensen - Doniphan-Trumbull Secondary School, Doniphan, Nebraska
- Taylor Jordan - Ft. Morgan High School,
Ft. Morgan, Colorado - Amy Kaestner - Alta Brown Elementary School,
Garden City, Kansas - Lucas Kliewer - Adams Central Jr.-Sr. High School, Hastings, Nebraska
- Jennifer Lerner - West Lawn Elementary School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Jamie Lyons - Arnold Elementary School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Bailey Mangers - St. Michael's Parish Elementary School, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Tyler Meuret - Gothenburg Public Schools,
Gothenburg, Nebraska - Alayna O'Connell - Episcopal Diocese of the
Dominican Republic - Kathryn Patten - Wasmer Elementary School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Shawdra Pitkin - Orchard Elementary School,
Orchard, Nebraska - Andrew Pryor - Syracuse Elementary School,
Syracuse, Nebraska - Lynzee Reiber - Hawthorne Elementary School,
Hastings, Nebraska - Tyler Richters - North Park Elementary School, Columbus, Nebraska
- John Roman - Pikes Peak School of Expeditionary Learning, Falcon, Colorado
- Staci Ronhovde - Waverly Intermediate School,
Waverly, Nebraska - Caitlin Schmidt - Holy Family School,
Lindsay, Nebraska - Nicole Schulte - Westridge Middle School,
Grand Island, Nebraska - Tyler Stender - Arlington High School,
Arlington, Nebraska - Erika Williams - Alcott Elementary School,
Hastings, Nebraska
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Participants in the 2014 J-Term Trip
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Hastings College students and faculty who participated in the 2014 J-Term trip shown in the photo at the top of this email include: - Stephanie Radke
- Jamie Klein
- Whitney Bridger
- Liz Harlow
- Luke Ervin
- Brittany Horton
- Michaela Hinrichs
- Ryan Garder
- Tyler Koepp
- Brad Davis
- Kireina Christensen
- Stasia Wagner
- Lindy Matthews
- Bethany Reed
- Lauren Miller
- Kaylee Anderson
- Sarah Gallagher
- Jessica Hunt
- Libby Kissinger
- Mark Hewitt
- Ben Vetrovsky
- Emily Reimer
- Bianca Fischer
- Jordan Binfield, MAT student
- Ann Auten, Instructor
- Ann Phelps '07
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Preparations are underway for the Multi-Cultural Education J-term trip to Jackson, Mississippi.
Hastings College students, in partnership with Millsaps College, will spend three days observing and offering instructional support to area K-12 school systems. In addition, students will learn along the way at places such as the Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King was assassinated, Tougaloo College that was built on the site of a slave plantation, the film location for The Help and a cypress grove at LeFleur's Bluff State Park.
Read more about the 2014 J-Term trip on pages 12-13 of the Millsaps College Summer Magazine, which you can find here.
 | | Hastings College student Lindy Matthews of Greeley, Colorado, with a Jackson, Mississippi, elementary student during the 2014 J-Term trip. |
 | | Ann Phelps '07 (right) was working for Millsaps College last year and helped make arrangements for Hastings College students in Jackson for the 2014 J-Term trip. Ann is with Maddie Thurston, a Hastings College student from Campbell, Nebraska. |
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In keeping with the 2014 Artist Lecture Series Student Symposium theme of "Food," we invited Mr. Rod Foley, principal at Walnut Middle School in Grand Island, Nebraska, to present about the free breakfast program they offer for all students in Grand Island Public Schools. We learned how the staff makes this work in a large school, and how it affects the students. Thank you, Mr. Foley!
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