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Two Beacons, One Mile Apart: Inside Wood River’s Double-Lighthouse Distinction By Tyler Dahlgren Two schools in the state of Nebraska have achieved Lighthouse certification and status in FranklinCovey Education’s Leader in Me model, and they’re separated by less than a mile in the same small town with big-time charm. Welcome to Wood River, located along Highway 30 between ...

One Foot in Front of the Other: Maxwell Elementary’s Running Club is a ‘round and ‘round hit By Tyler Dahlgren The miles Hadley Nelson has logged the last three years are enough to get the fifth-grade student from her little hometown of Maxwell, Nebraska to the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. Nelson joined the Maxwell Elementary Running Club when she entered the third-grade, and has put one...

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Welcome to UNK!

Dr. Greg Barnes is excited to join the UNK EDAD team, and to help continue the outstanding tradition at UNK of educating and developing the best and brightest educational administrators across the state of Nebraska and beyond. He received his bachelor's degree from Kearney State College in 1987 and his master's degree from UNK in 1993. He enjoyed a 35 year career in public education in Nebraska with 31 of those years as an administrator in Chambers, Bertrand, Seward, and ESU 11 in Holdrege. He and his wife Pam currently live in Holdrege, Nebraska where they enjoy chasing their 8 grandchildren in Bertrand, Holdrege, and Seward. When Dr. Barnes is not spending time with his grandchildren, he likes working around the house, golfing, fishing, and/or hunting.