Lps Podcast

This week we hear an interview Jason Keese did with Brent Toalson, who is retiring next month after serving as the principal at Southeast High School for the past eight years. As you’ll hear, Brent has a passion for education and Southeast that will be greatly missed but always remembered. 

This week we’ll hear an interview with Azcia Fleming, who recently graduated from Lincoln High. Jason got to know Azcia through her work on a communications diversity advisory committee and the annual MLK Youth Rally. She’s an incredibly thoughtful young woman and is destined for big things – as you’ll hear.

This week we’ll hear an interview with Oscar Rios Pohirieth, the Cultural Specialist and Coordinator for the Bilingual Liaison Program at LPS . Oscar has a fascinating life story and he also talks about some of the many challenges faced by so many of our refugee families here in Lincoln, especially over the last few […]

This week we hear inspiring words from the recent virtual graduation ceremonies for Yankee Hill Education Center and Bryan Community Focus Program. Their ceremonies included speeches from their principals, our superintendent, board of education members and of course, graduating students.

This week we’ll hear an interview with Chris Haeffner, our director of Library Media Services. Chris and her team did an amazing job of pulling together online resources for families during remote learning at the end of the school year. She talks about what they did, how they did it, and what they’re still doing […]

This week we’ll hear an interview with Lincoln High Principal Mark Larson. Jason had a chance to talk to Mark about what the last two months have been like as principal of the largest high school in Lincoln. They talked about those first days when COVID-19 reached Lincoln, the challenges of remote learning, potential silver […]

This week we’ll hear an interview that our communications colleague BriAna Campbell did with Carrie Foster. Carrie is one of our special education supervisors at LPS and one of the groups she oversees is school psychologists, who play a critical role in the education of so many of our students. Just like all of our […]

This week we’ll hear members of the Board of Education offer words of deep thanks to our teachers as part of National Teacher Appreciation Week, which was last week.

This week we hear about Matt Rinne, a computer science teacher at Pyrtle Elementary. Matt is creating these amazing 10-minute videos that teach elementary students the basics about computer science and coding. If you’ve ever watched any of Bill Nye’s videos, you can definitely see the influence. We are blown away by Matt’s videos. He […]

Episode 59 — April 27, 2020 This week we’ll hear about how LPS music teachers and students are spreading the joy of music by recording performances of themselves in their homes, which are then shared with local nursing homes whose residents are unable to experience live performances right now because of COVID-19. Inside the New […]