Updates concerning or relating to teaching and learning.
BOE offers j-teaching contract
Put on your dancing shoes and your party hat because it has finally happened! I’m going to be a teacher! Monday night the Western Plains […]
Education
Superintendent search nearly finished
Thursday I wrote about how the Western Plains Unified School District 106 superintendent, Kerry Lacock, was leaving and how I was sad to see him […]
Western Plains superintendent set to leave
Western Plains Unified School District No. 106 superintendent (and high school principal and teacher) Kerry Lacock is leaving The Bobcat Nation. He has taken a […]
‘Man on street’ feature gets high school paper in trouble
Across the country, newspapers use special features to help involve readers and the community the publication serves. One such feature is a “man on the […]
Police raid student newspaper office
“At least half a dozen police officers and the Rockingham County commonwealth’s attorney raided the offices of James Madison University’s student newspaper Friday, confiscating hundreds […]
WPHS gets coverage in Hutch News
You know this Honor Flight a few Western Plains High School students are participating in that I’ve been talking about? Well, they left Wednesday, and […]
WPHS Honor Flight departs Ransom
The Western Plains High School Honor Flight group left Ransom today at 1:30 p.m. WPHS senior Eric Dysinger shot photos of the time prior to […]
Flat Stanley to go on Honor Flight too
Gage Nech, 10 of Nebraska and the grandson of Courtney and Paula Atwell from Utica, sent the Western Plains High School Honor Flight group a […]
Blind student becoming a journo
This honestly blew my mind a little. I don’t want to come across as thinking someone with a handicap is weaker or less-able to do […]
WPHS students blogging Honor Flight trip
On Wednesday, Western Plains High School students Beth Lutters (junior), Trista Jenner (senior), Chase Rein (junior), and Jared Stieben (junior), along with WPHS teacher Debbie […]
WPHS is at FBLA State
Tuesday and Wednesday is the Kansas State Future Business Leaders of America Conference in Topeka. In attendance there 94 schools, and Western Plains High School […]
Accepted to grad school
I just received an e-mail that said I am now a Fort Hays State University Tiger. My application to graduate school has been accepted. I […]