Current Openings

2020 Positions

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School	Filled by	Prior Location	Previous Teacher	Leaving For…
Logan View			Dan Mowinkel	Retired
Hitchcock County			Katelyn Day	Resigned
Sidney			New Program	n/a
Leyton			Tracy Cooper	Resigned
Gordon-Rushville			Katie Shadbolt	Resigned
Valentine			Second Position	n/a
Palmyra	Shaylee Traux	Chambers	Ken Malone	Retired
Osceola			Steve Schmit	Retired
Bridgeport	TBA		Zach Malcolm	Resigned

2019 Filled Positions

School	Filled by	Prior Location	Previous Teacher	Leaving For…
Cozad	McKenzie Koening	West Texas A&M Grad	Rebekah Kraeger	Resigned
Dundy County Straton	Vanessa Knutson (Jan. 2020 start)	UNL Graduate, Student teaching at Medicine Valley	Christen Williamson	Southern Valley
Potter-Dix	Alyssa Lewark	Non-traditional	New Program	n/a
Southern Valley	Christen Williamson	Dundy County	Kate Likens	Axtell
Arthur County	Kristen Rutt	Non-traditional	Kim Channer	Retirement
Crete	Filled by STS Instructor		Second Position	n/a
Seward	Emilia Brozek	Came back to teaching	Sarah Morton	Resigned
Axtell	Kate Likens	Southern Valley	Rebecca Cornelius	Resigned
Kearney	Did not fill (Third position)		Third Ag Ed Position	n/a
Elba	KateLynn Ness	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Lyons-Decatur	Aubrie Brown	St. Paul, Media Specialist
Bruning-Davenport	Lynn Hansen	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Fillmore Central	Siera Meyer	Kenesaw
Conestoga	Kaitlin Taylor	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Seward	Seth Burge	Perkins County Middle School Science Position
Lewiston	Kurt Wissenburg	Came back to teaching	Craig Lister	Resigned
Waverly	STS Instructor		New Middle School Opening	n/a
Diller-Odell	Craig Lister	Lewiston	Katie Husman	Resigned
Anselmo-Merna	Molly Maresh	Schuyler	Kara Reimers	Resigned
Kenesaw	Siera Meyer	Bruning-Davenport	New Program	n/a
Boone Central	STS Instructor		Potential Second Position	n/a
Lakeview	Emilye Vales	UNL Graduate, Student taught at McCool Junction	Catherine Chmelka	David City
Boyd County	Lesley Soles	SDSU Graduate	Raquel Taylor	Resign, Grad School
Chambers	Shaylee Traux	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Freeman	Maranda Kegley	Elm Creek
NE Unified District #1 – Orchard	Jessy Hilkemeier	Came back to teaching	New Position	n/a
Schuyler	Charles Hosier & Casey Harper	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Eustis-Farnam UNL Graduate, Student taught at Randolph	Mollie Maresh Added Second Position	Anselmo-Merna n/a
Ainsworth	Emily Whipple	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Pender	Roger Lechtenberg	Retirement
Mullen	Trevor Ginkens	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Burwell	Cheyenne Hurlburt	Resigned
David City	Catherine Chmelka	Lakeview (Columbus)	Jenny Kocian	East Butler
Central City	Breann Zimmer	UNL Graduate, Student taught at West Holt	Potential Second Position	n/a
Rock County	Kara Burns	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Amherst	Second Position	n/a
Aurora	Sarah Frisbie	NWMS Graduate, student taught at Waverly	Dana Anderson	Retirement
Bancroft-Rosalie (.15 time)	Amy Piere-Soll	Non-traditional	New Program	n/a
Friend	Amy Tomlinson	State Staff	Jessie Bower	Resigned
York	Rachelle Allen	UNL Graduate, student taught at York	Cal Williams	Retirement
North Platte	Did not fill (Second position)		Potential Second Position	n/a
Winside	STS Instructor		Potential New Program	n/a
Cambridge	STS Instructor		Potential Second Position	n/a
Palmer	Juliana Kroeger	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Adams Central	Dennis Mottl	Retirement
Centennial	Holly Podliska	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Rock County	Arne Anderson	Retirement
Elm Creek	Maranda Kegley	Chambers	Kate Quiring	Grand Island Senior High, Science position
West Point	STS Instructor		Potential Second Position	n/a
Wausa	STS Instructor		Potential New Program	n/a
McCook	Savannah Schafer	UNL Graduate, student taught at Scottsbluff	Lauren Miller	Resigned
Raymond Central	Whitney Lehn	Hired as full-time instructor beginning January 2019	Whitney Lehn	Served as a long-term sub fall semester
St. Edward	Alex Cumming	UNL Graduate, student taught at Ashland-Greenwood	Tim Laughlin	Retirement
East Butler	Jenny Kocian	David City	Chris Palensky	Serves as long-term sub through May 2019
Sandy Creek	Reduced to one teacher program		Mattison Sullivan	Resigned
Lexington Middle School (Jan. 2019 start)	Haley Rogers	UNL Graduate, student taught at Gothenburg	Adding 2nd position	n/a
Gordon-Rushville (Jan. 2019 start)	Katie Compton	UNL Graduate, student taught at Blue Hill	Maynard Conroy	Retirement
Tekamah-Hermn (Jan. 2019 start)	Haley Zabel	UNL Graduate, student taught at Humphrey	Chris Fleischman	Serves as long-term sub

2018 Filled Positions

School	Filled by	Prior Location	Previous Teacher	Leaving For…
Stapleton	Rachel (Che) Balcom	Transitional Permit	New Program	n/a
Raymond Central	Whitney Lehn	Long-Term Sub	Casey Carriker	Crete
Arapahoe	Chandler Hambidge	Transitional Permit	Guy Kuntz	Resigned
Minatar	Nicole D’Angelo-Sorensen	Seward	Matt Korkow	Principal at West Boyd
Elba	n/a	n/a	Aubrie Brown	Decided to Stay
Hyannis	n/a	n/a	Tim Davis	Decided to Stay
Morrill-Mitchell	Walker Dobry	IT teacher adding a Provisional Endorsement	Combined Program, second teacher at Mitchell	n/a
Gordon-Rushville	n/a	n/a	Maynard Conroy	Decided to stay through December
Sutton	Shawna Wheeler	UNL Graduate, student taught at Ord	Jesse Bower	TBA
Shelby-Rising City	Morgan Fangmeier	UNL Graduate, student taught at Sutton	Whitney Lehn	Resigned
Friend/Exeter Milligan	Jesse Bower	Sutton	Eric Hauge	Resigned
Southern Valley	Kate Likens	UNL Graduate, student taught at McCool Junction	Jon Lechtenberg	Principal at Chase County
Sterling	Taylor Schultz	UNL Graduat, student taught at Grand Island NW	Emilia Woeppel	Resigned
East Butler	Chris Palensky	Long Term Sub	Shane Hennessey	Resigned
Crete	Casey Carriker	Raymond Central	Marc Wittstruck	Retirement
Omaha Bryan, second teacher	Taylor Cooper	UNL Graduate, student taught at Seward	New Position	n/a
Tekamah-Herman	Chris Fleischman	Long Term Sub	Bailey Kobs	Resigned
Schuyler	Mollie Maresh	South Dakota Graduate	Brant Peters	Resigned
Mullen	Cheyenne Hurlburt	Wyoming Graduate	Abby Ford	Resigned
Arlington	Jill Hensley	Blair	Billy Grannemann	Resigned
Alliance	Ashtyn Shrewsbury	Transitional Permit	Lori Walla	Retirement
Sandhills	Emilee Elwood	Wyoming Graduate	Justin Nollette	Cody-Kilgore
Dundy County Stratton	Christen Williamson	UNL Graduate, student taught at Southern Valley	Nathan Behlke	Resigned – Industry
Cedar Bluffs	Decided to hire IT Teacher	School will be co-oping	Tim Hendricks	Resigned
Chambers	Maranda Kegley	UNL Graduate, student taught at Newman Grove	Paige Shuler	Resigned
Broken Bow	Maggie Louthan	UNL Graduate, student taught at Rock County	Carrie Summerford	Resigned
Seward	Sarah Morton	UNL Graduate, student taught at Auburn	Nicole D’Angelo	Resigned
Cody-Kilgore	Justin Nollette	Sandhills	Tim Nollette	Retirement
Madison	Alyssa Went	Transitional Permit	Suzy Foley	Long Term Sub/Science Teacher
Ewing	Decided to look for IT teacher			School Considered adding an Ag Program
Kearney	Spencer Noble	UNL Graduate	Kathleen Cullinan	North Platte
Wood River	Zana DeJong	South Dakota	Juliana Loudon	Resigned
Ansley	Blair Hartman	UNL Graduate, student taught at Fillmore Central	Brandon Grosserode	Elkhorn Valley
Meridian	Sarah Wollenburg	UNL Graduate, student taught at Ashland-Greenwood	New Program	n/a
Sandy Creek	Jacob Goldfuss	UNL Graduate, student taught at Sandy Creek	Amy Tomlinson	State Staff Position
Sandy Creek	Mattison Sullivan	UNL Graduate, student taught at Scottsbluff	new position	n/a
Blair	Morgan Kowalewski	UNL Graduate, student taught in Pawnee City	Jill Hensley	Arlington
North Platte	Kathleen Cullinan	Kearney	New Program	n/a
Elkhorn Valley	Brandon Grosserode	Ansley	New Program	n/a
Bloomfield	Kaydee Caldwell	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Boone Central	Amber Endres
O’Neill (January Start)	Kelli Meusch	UNL Graduate, student taught at Valentine	Amanda Horn	Resigned
Axtell	Rebecca Cornelius	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Blue Hill	New Program	n/a
Arcadia	Christinda Scheideler	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Gothenburg	Vicki Bauer	Long-Term Sub

2017 Filled Positions

School	Filled By	Prior Location	Previous Teacher	Leaving For…
Creek Valley	Halie Meints	Bridgeport	Added a 1/2 time second position	n/a
Santee	Irene Graves	Laurel-Concord-Coleridge	New Program	n/a
Hyannis	Tim Davis	Kansas	Bradley Goering	Kansas Teaching Position
Orchard	IT Teacher	n/a	n/a	school considered starting a program
Elba	Aubrie Brown	New Mexico, Transitionally Certified	Kara Reimers	Anselmo-Merna
Cozad (2nd Opening)	Rebekah Spader	Transitionally Certified	Taylor Haley	Resigned
Bridgeport (August Start)	Zach Malcolm	Long Term Sub	Halie Meints	Creek Valley
Leigh	Brandy Held	Provisionally Endorsed	Don Tyser	Retirement
Arcadia	Vicki Bauer	Long Term Sub	Robert Swett	Retirement
Madison	Suzy Goedeken & Jaci Palmer	Long Term Sub	Jessy Eggerling	Resigned
Allen	Josh Batenhorst	Transitionally Certified	Bill Chase	IT Position
Deshler	Ron Rickstrew	Diller-Odell	New Program	n/a
Arapahoe-Holbrook	Guy Kuntz	Colorado	Courtney Bahe	Resigned, South Dakota
Anselmo-Merna	Kara Reimers	Elba	Elizabeth Eastep	Resignation
Lewiston	Craig Lister	Kansas	Dave Barnard	Tri-County
Broken Bow	Carrie Summerford	UNL Graduate, student taught at Scottsbluff	Lonnie Koepke	Retirement
Tri County	Dave Barnard	Lewiston	Kurt Wissenburg	Resigned
Laurel-Concord-Coleridge	Evey Choat	UNL Graduate, Student taught at McCool Junction	Irene Graves	Resignation
Sandy Creek	Industry Person	n/a	n/a	School considered adding a 2nd teacher
Elm Creek	Kate Quiring	UNL Graduate, student taught at Centura	Lauren Ibach	McCook
Neligh-Oakdale	Kali Bohling	UNL Graduate, Student taught at Crofton	New program	n/a
Overton	April Faimon	Transitionally certified	New program	n/a
Keya Paha	Ellen Revell	Kansas State Graduate	Russell Stoker	Crawford
West Boyd	Raquel Taylor	Utah State Graduate	Jerome Engelhaupt	Retirement
Johnson-Brock	Dawn Metschke	Provisional Endorsement	New Program	n/a
Crawford	Russell Stoker	Keya Paha	New Program	n/a
Plattsmouth	Nicole Stork	NWMS Graduate	Second Position	n/a
Cozad (1st opening)	Taylor Haley	AZ, previously taught at Ogallala	New Program	n/a
Elwood	Reed Kraeger	UNL Student, student taught at Burwell	New program	n/a
McCook	Lauren Ibach	Elm Creek	Steve Drevet	Resignation
Diller-Odell (Jan. Start)	Katie Husman	UNL Student, student taught at Rock County	Ron Rickstrew	Resigned
Wayne	Toni Rasmussen	UNL Student, student taught at Humphrey	New Program	n/a
Bridgeport (Jan. Start)	Halie Meints	Alternative Certification Program via UNL	Alissa Copple	Resigned
Pierce (Jan. Start)	Matt Neal	Previously taught in Georgia	Ann Muhs/Henry Goeden	Long Term Sub/Industry
Verdigre	Alex Cunningham	UNL Student, Student taught at Verdigre	Kevin Rana	Retirement
Cambridge (January Start)	Miranda Paitz	UNL Student, Student taught at Holdrege	Kristy Witte	was a long-term sub