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HAL Funding Application

2025-2026 HAL Funding Application Window: August 1, 2025-September 15, 2025 To access the HAL Funding Application, please visit the new NDE Portal *NOTE: This application is in the New Portal.   Below are the instructions for filling out the application and an example HAL Plan (required for the application). 2025-2026...
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HAL Grants, Awards, & Scholarships

The information contained on this page is provided as a resource, and not an endorsement of the NDE. Links to third-party websites do not constitute an endorsement of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policies, products, services, or accessibility of the sites. National Association for Gifted Children Awards & Scholarships A...
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HAL Hacks: On-Demand Strategies

Welcome to High Ability Learner Hacks! This page contains short videos of strategies and best-practices for serving HAL students. Please feel free to share these clips, and email sheyanne.meandows@nebraska.gov if you have any questions. Complexity: Adding a Law or Theory Complexity: Adding a Variable Independent Learning Contracts HAL and Perfectionism...
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HAL Professional Learning & Events

Upcoming Professional Learning Events Nebraska MTSS Summit 2024: Super Systems for Success September 26 & 27, 2024, Kearney, NE. Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Learners A collaboration of the Nebraska Department of Education & Minnesota Department of Education Book Study facilitated by Joy Lawson Davis: October 2024 - February 2025, Virtual National...
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HAL Rules & Regulations

Rule 3: Regulations Regarding High Ability Learners 2025 Rule 3 Revision Resources Rule 3 Revisions Webinar - August 28, 2025 Navigating Rule 3 Revisions (YouTube) Navigating Rule 3 Revisions (PowerPoint) Nebraska Revised Statute 79-1105

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HAL/MTSS Pilot

SNEAK PREVIEW of Module 1 of Phase 2 Interested? Apply here for Pilot Phase 2!

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HAL/MTSS Pilot Project

Gifted and talented services are generally “one size fits all.” We know that gifted students are unique and have varying needs. Putting them into cookie-cutter gifted programs may not allow all students to reach their maximum potential and grow. Additionally, we do not often evaluate the effectiveness of interventions used for...
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Health Education

PurposeMissionPurpose Health Education is a unique and separate academic discipline. It influences individual, family, and societal development, knowledge, attitudes and behavior and seeks the improvement of individual, family and community health. Health education helps individuals seek that which moves them toward optimal stages of wellness. It means also to aid...
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Health Education Professional Learning & Events

If you are intending hours to go towards district required professional learning hours, please check with your administrator to ensure they will be accepted. This is not a complete list nor does the Nebraska Department of Education endorse one over another. CPR & First Aid Online Training American Red Cross...
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Health Education Resources

The information contained on this page is provided as a resource, and not an endorsement of the NDE. Links to third-party websites do not constitute an endorsement of the content, viewpoint, accuracy, opinions, policies, products, services, or accessibility of the sites. Decisions about curriculum and instructional materials are made locally...
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Health Science

Career Pathways and Specialty Examples Health Informatics Workers occupy many different levels of health care related employment. This pathway includes health care administrators who manage health care agencies as well as those individuals who are responsible for managing all of the patient data and information, financial information, and computer applications...
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Heritage Speakers Programs

Research: Heritage speaker programs present language study of a “world” or “foreign language” to learners with a family heritage in that language. Here are some key points about heritage language study: HL students have acquired nearly 90% of the phonological system of a prestige dialect of their ancestral language. HL...
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High Ability Learners

VisionMissionVision Vision All gifted and talented students in Nebraska have meaningful opportunities for academic and personal growth commensurate with their abilities as well as career development to actualize their full potential and become lifelong learners who are college, career, and civic-ready. For more information on HAL's Vision and Mission, please...
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High Ability Learners Educator Resources

College Board Resources Advanced Placement Advanced Placement resources for students, teachers, coordinators, principals, district leaders, and higher education professionals. AP Classroom Explore free online resources to help your students learn and practice all year. BigFuture Students can check out careers, find colleges, and discover ways to pay for college. PSAT/NMSQT...
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High School Resource Materials

Best Resources Foreign Languages & The Literary in the Everyday: Helping Students to Make Meaning The Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) project  is an archive of literacy-based materials. It includes forum spaces for discussions between members of teaching communities and examples of how to integrate the...
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High School World Language Models

All secondary students must have access to a minimum of two years of world language study. There are many types of models schools can use depending on the needs and goals of the school and community. Dual Language Immersion Programs Dual language immersion programs provide content instruction in both English...
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HIV AIDS Education

Welcome to the HIV/Sexual Health Education Homepage HIV/STD prevention and sexual health education is an essential component of students’ physical, social and emotional development. Health education programs that include age and developmentally appropriate, medically accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality, including abstinence, contraception and disease...
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Hold – SRP Specific Core Action

HOLD is announced when everyone should remain in place. A person(s) should stay in the classroom, or area they are in until the "All Clear" is announced. Hallways should be empty unless this is where the incident is occurring. The adults should close and lock the door while accounting for...
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How Nebraska Businesses Support the Seal of Biliteracy

Nebraska businesses are encouraged to consider the Seal of Biliteracy as a measurement for student achievement in language learning and proficiency. Businesses may show their support for world language learning and biliteracy by signing on to the Nebraska Seal of Biliteracy Letter of Support and by posting the "We Support...
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Human Sciences and Education

The Human Sciences and Education Career Field offers students the chance to deepen their knowledge in areas such as family and consumer sciences, human services, education and training, and law and public safety. Programs within this career field include introductory, intermediate, and capstone courses, as well as expanded learning opportunities....
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Human Sciences and Family and Consumer Sciences

The Human Sciences and Education Career Field offers students the chance to deepen their knowledge in areas such as family and consumer sciences, human services, education and training, and law and public safety. Programs within this career field include introductory, intermediate, and capstone courses, as well as expanded learning opportunities....
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IEP Facilitation

NE IEP Facilitation Guide 2020 2023-24 IEP Facilitator List If you have questions or comments about the IEP Facilitation option, Contact Jordyn Brummund at the Nebraska Department of Education: jordyn.brummund@nebraska.gov or 531.207.9977

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Introduction to the Nebraska World Language Standards

The Nebraska World Language Standards represent an organization both consistent with other content areas and unique to the parameters of world language programming in Nebraska. Guideline to Read the Structure of the Standards Guideline to the overall structure of Nebraska’s World Language Standards. The Five "C"s of Nebraska's World Language...
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