Nebraska SMART (Success Made Accessible through Rural Tutoring) is a free virtual tutoring program for K-12 students who attend NRCSA  (Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association) member school districts, school districts in Educational Service Units 1, 4, and 13, and other select smaller rural public-school districts. Teacher education candidates from Chadron State, Peru State, and Wayne State Colleges remotely tutor students through an online tutoring platform.

Nebraska SMART was established by the Nebraska State College System in partnership with the Nebraska Department of Education which awarded an Innovation Grant to the State Colleges to develop a rural tutoring program. Chadron State College, Peru State College, and Wayne State College collaboratively offer this free online tutoring program to K-12 students in rural Nebraska.

Access Nebraska SMART here

FCCLA will be sponsoring the annual Turkey Your Principal canned food drive. Central Elementary, Jefferson Intermediate, and Fairbury High School will all be collecting non-perishable food items the week of November 11-15. The school that collects the most pounds of food will win the competition, and the designated principal of the winning school will wear a turkey costume the week of Thanksgiving. The non-perishable food items will be donated to Fairbury Blue Valley.

Congratulations to our October students of the month!

Junior high
Westin Dux and Willow Warnke

I am excited to share with you that this coming Monday, November 4, our Jefferson Intermediate and Central Elementary families will take off on a new reading adventure!  

Every Jefferson Intermediate and Central Elementary family will receive a copy of the same book – and will be asked to read it together at home over the next few weeks.  I am personally asking you to make the time so that your family can participate in this special activity.  

On Monday, November 4, we will send home one copy of the book per family.  The book will be sent home with the youngest child or only child in grades Kindergarten through 6th grade.  Along with a copy of the book, I am sending a reading calendar for families to use as a guide.  The first 10 pages will be read at school.   

I KNOW that you will enjoy this special reading time with your children.  This is an excitingopportunity to build a “Community of Readers”!

Mrs. Simpson

Jefferson/Central Media Specialist

The Energizers organization from the high school that focuses on community involvement and promoting a drug free message has begun to partner up with Cedarwood for a monthly lunch bunch at the school.  Each month a couple of residents from Cedarwood will come up and eat lunch with a couple of members of the Energizers Organization.  Rylie Herring and Delaney Gasper, the President and Vice President of the group ate with their guests this month.  As a bonus, this months Cedarwood residents got to eat with their grandchildren Grady Chappel and Izzy Ohlde.