And that's an Eagle winner! Your final score from Columbus - Lakeview 7 O'Neill 35 🦅💪🏼

Congratulations to our September O’Neill Way recipients: Madison Wettlaufer, Aiyana Brown, Tucker Cook, Preston Walsh, and Taylor Young.

Canning today in 8th grade Ag class. Students canned either pickles or onions.

Teacher Spotlight📣 We are writing to congratulate and thank you for the incredible work that your teacher Emily Wlaschin has accomplished with the 2026 Nebraska Writing Project Summer Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As facilitators of this intensive annual graduate seminar for teachers, we wanted to take this opportunity to share a brief note about Emily’s engagement and inspirational leadership. Emily offered a research-based professional development workshop to our group of eighteen teachers entitled: Words That Hit: Teaching Slam Poetry. In this teaching demonstration and workshop, Emily showed how we can engage our students in creative writing exercises using the characteristics present in slam poetry. The presentation not only scaffolded opportunities for creative writing but also emphasized the importance of student voice. Resoundingly, people explained that after this activity, they would be excited to use the scaffolds that Emily modeled with something as complicated as encouraging reluctant writers to take personal writing public. One teacher participant stated, “The topic of slam poetry was immediately exciting to me. I think you gave really compelling testimonials from your own experience and compelling research for how this can engage students, especially maybe students who don't engage as much otherwise. I greatly respected how you began with your own slam poem. It was so beautiful and set a tone of vulnerability. And I also thought the prompts for the poems were so helpful.” In the Nebraska Writing Project, we have been committed for almost 50 years to developing youth programs, graduate courses, teaching resources, and community events that center innovative and research-backed approaches to teaching writing. Please reach out if we can further support you or your teachers with professional development or youth programming or if you would like to know more about the Nebraska Writing Project. Thank you for recruiting and supporting phenomenal teachers such as Emily Wlaschin. We are thrilled to learn with and from them, and we appreciate the positive impact they have on teachers and students.

In Volleyball action: O'Neill defeats EPPJ in C, JV, and Varsity.

O'Neill defeats Pierce 11-6. Lady Eagles go 2-1 on the day.

The OHS Blood Drive is on September 30 from 9:15 am to 1:30. If interested in donating, please see the flyer on how to schedule your appointment.

At the Boone Central Volleyball tournament: O'Neill defeats Crofton in 2 sets O'Neill drops the first set to Columbus Lakeview

Contact Mr Price for more information if interested.

Eagle 🏐 defeats Elkhorn Valley in 3 sets.

Mr Price will be hosting an informational meeting on Thursday, September 17th at 7pm in Room 309 at the High School regarding a Washington D.C & NYC trip.

Eagles win it in three sets with the final set 25-19.

🏐 Action: C team and JV defeat South Sioux City.

Just a reminder: tomorrow is High School (9-12) grade Activity Picture Day and National FCCLA Qualifiers. Please see the attached schedule.

Seniors kick starting the year off right with high 5 Friday at the elementary.

🚨🚨🚨Cellphone and smartwatch Policy Update

Here is the link to the computer check out video. Students may need to be signed into their Google accounts to access it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NNcsDUnaNn7wjUBP2LHmrbZR1YfTAZk-/view?usp=drive_link