Student council and Early Education Center highlight district programs and partnerships
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Summary
Hawthorne Elementary students presented projects from a rotating student council aimed at boosting belonging; the Early Education Center and Kearney High School English students showed a client-connected project promoting EEC services and described four free early-learning programs.
At its meeting the Kearney School District Board heard two school-spotlight presentations featuring student leadership and early-learning partnerships.
A teacher from Hawthorne Elementary (speaker 7) described a student council program built around a rotating 'Bulldogs of the Month' selection. Each month roughly a dozen students serve on student council, giving younger students a voice and creating leadership opportunities for about 80 students across the year. Student presenters outlined three initiatives: installing a wheeled playground-bin to collect balls, reorganizing lost-and-found with a dedicated rack and hangers, and rolling out classroom recycling with dedicated boxes. The students plan a campus cleanup event toward the end of the year.
The board also heard from Amy Baugh, principal of the Early Education Center (speaker 13), and Mary Watkins (speaker 14), who described a partnership with Kearney High School’s English 3 class. High-school students developed promotional materials—videos, brochures and social‑media mockups—to raise community awareness of EEC services. Staff emphasized that EEC offers four programs (childcare/preschool, Parents as Teachers, five-day pre-K and early childhood special education), many free to district families, and that the partnership gave high-school students practical experience while promoting early-childhood enrollment and services.
Board members congratulated students and staff and took photos; there was no formal action required for either spotlight.
