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Questions and Answers
A series of Questions and Answers with employees who are earning honors for their work, or who have new or unique roles in LPS.
Q&A with Jane Holt, Lincoln East High School
Posted on April 15, 2013
Q&A: Jason Wilmot on trip to India
Saratoga Elementary School teacher Jason Wilmot visited India during his Spring Break. His pictures and insight via Twitter were interesting, but left questions.
Posted on March 27, 2013
Q&A: Karen Hand, director of LPS Athletics
Karen Hand, director of Athletics for Lincoln Public Schools, has been honored recently with two awards.
Posted on March 27, 2013
Q&A with Nutrition Director Edith Zumwalt
Recently Lincoln Public Schools presented a live-streaming show called ConnectLPS – featuring Edith Zumwalt, director of Nutrition Services at LPS.
Posted on March 26, 2013
Q&A with Bob Reeker, NAEA National Elementary Art Educator of the Year
Bob Reeker, Visual Art and Integrated Technology Specialist at Eastridge Elementary School, has been named the 2013 National Elementary Art Educator of the Year by the Nebraska Art Education Association.
Posted on March 11, 2013
Q&A: Kevin Atterberg, Nebraska Farm Bureau honoree
Kevin Atterberg, eighth-grade science teacher at Culler Middle School, has been named Teacher of the Year by the Nebraska Farm Bureau.
Posted on March 11, 2013
Q&A: Schoo MS takes on one book, one school, one project
At Schoo Middle School, all students have read the same book as part of ‘One Book, One Schoo.’ Add to that, one student movement. Steve Orton started a club called ‘H2O for Life’ where students work to raise money and awareness about the water crisis around the world. The book was called ‘A Long Walk to Water.’
Posted on February 28, 2013
Q&A: PLTW leader visits East to learn, educate
The leader of the national Project Lead the Way recently visited Lincoln East High School.
Posted on February 28, 2013
Q&A: Kevin Rippe, teacher/coach of state champions
Lincoln East High School won the statewide “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution Competition” contest held annually by the The Center for Civic Education. The teacher, Kevin Rippe, explains the competition, and sample questions are posted below.
Posted on February 08, 2013
Q&A: Irving teacher honored by state VFW
Trisha Lind of Irving Middle School has been named the VFW State Citizen Education Teacher of the Year by the Nebraska Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Posted on February 08, 2013
Q&A with Ruth Lohmeyer, HS Counselor of the Year by NSCA
Ruth E. Lohmeyer, counselor at Lincoln Northeast High School, was recently named High School Counselor of the Year by the Nebraska School Counselors Association. We asked her a few questions about her job and her role as a school counselor.
Posted on February 06, 2013
Who mentored you? Our teachers, staff share their stories
January is National Mentoring Month (http://teammates.org/national-mentoring-month/) and Jan. 17 was National Thank Your Mentor Day. To celebrate, staff in Lincoln Public Schools shared their stories of their own mentor, that person who provides/provided inspiration and support in their life.
Posted on January 18, 2013
Q&A with Justin Holbein, LHS Theatre Director
Posted on January 02, 2013
Q&A: Allysa Diehl, state StuCo adviser of year for middle school
Allysa Diehl of Schoo Middle School was honored as the the Warren E Schull Middle Level Adviser of the Year named for Student Council at the recent student council convention at Lincoln Southeast High School. She answered a few questions about student council and its impact on teachers, and herself.
Posted on December 07, 2012
Q&A with David Nebel
David Nebel, a social studies teacher at Lincoln Southeast High School, has been named the Nebraska State Council of the Social Studies First Congressional District Teacher of the Year. He answered a few questions about his curriculum and his teaching style.
Posted on November 15, 2012
Q&A with Bob Henrichs
Bob Henrichs, Lincoln Southwest High Schools theatre director, has been inducted into the Educational Theatre Association's Hall Of Fame. He answered a few questions about his passion for theater and how it translated into teaching.
Posted on November 09, 2012
LSE grad to get his post-secondary education on the job
Ethan Horne, a graduate of Lincoln Southeast High School and the Entrepreneurship Focus Program, has been selected as 1 of 11 fellows to the E(nstitute) program in New York City.
Posted on October 26, 2012
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