Nebraska Social Studies Standards Survey

What do you think our students should know about social studies?  

The Nebraska Department of Education has released a draft of the Nebraska Social Studies Standards and would love to hear from you!  The standards provide the framework for what students are expected to know about social studies, and your feedback will help make improvements to the standards before they are adopted.  The survey should take less than ten minutes to complete for each grade level selected.    

To complete the survey, use this link:  Social Studies Standards Survey.

April is Autism Awareness Month

Free Suicide Prevention Training - April 3rd @ CMS

Become a QPR Gatekeeper

Learn

QPR for Suicide Prevention

          QPR is not intended to be a form of counseling or treatment.

          QPR is intended to offer hope through positive action.

          QPR is intended to teach those who are in a position to recognize
the warning       

                    signs, clues and suicidal communications  of people in
trouble to ACT

                    vigorously to prevent a possible tragedy.

SUICIDE PREVENTION GATEKEEPERS

A gatekeeper can be anyone! Students, parents, educators, doctors, and bus drivers
can all be trained Gatekeepers. If you are around people this is a valuable training
as suicide prevention is everybody’s business.  

WHY QPR FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION GATEKEEPERS?

QPR gatekeeper training takes just over an hour and is taught in a format that is clear
and concise. Gatekeepers are given information that is easy to understand and
reinforced by a QPR booklet and card complete with warning signs, methods to
encourage a person to get help and a list of resources available in your community.

Free Gatekeeper Training

Given by Amy Carnahan of Western Community Health Resources

Wednesday April 3, 2019 @ 6 pm

Chadron Middle School Library

Anatomy & Physiology Class Tours Occupational Therapy

(Submitted by CHS Senior, Taurie Pourier)

On March 19th the Anatomy and Physiology class took a trip to the Occupational Therapy department in
the hospital. There we met with the occupational therapist Maddi Nitsch. She talked to us about the
occupation, the education needed, along with a tour around her office. She also showed us many tools
that she uses for her therapy that helps her patients with their recovery. Maddi explained the occupation
very well. She described that occupational therapy is used for many different things such as; relearning
how to do something that you normally do in your life such as, taking a shower, tying your shoes, walking
or even cooking. She works with many that have had strokes, been in car accidents, have tremors, or
just minor things that you may need help with. Maddi described the occupation as never boring because
you may have something come to you that you have never seen before, so you must learn about it and
find a way to help them with certain exercises. With the occupation you not only get to help people and
just work on exercises, but you also get to go into people's houses and try to maybe get to work with
architecture and figure out a way to make a bathroom or house more accessible for the patient. She can
also go into businesses and talk to them about how to change the way they do things to make it better
for the employees and easier on their bodies. She also gets to make splints for people to help with their
joints. Occupational therapy deals with a lot and has a wide range of things that you can do with the
occupation.

Maddi was very open about what she did and loved talking about her occupation. She gave us many tips
of how to get through college and to never give up. Maddi loves to have people come shadow her and
would love to have more people shadow her and see what her occupation is all about.

A Live Film Premier: Inside The Mind - April 5 @ CSC

It's A Big Deal Day - Tuesday, April 2nd