“I am overwhelmed! There are so many amazing teachers across the state as well as Johnson Brock Schools who are more deserving of this award. I’m very humbled to receive this award and I was very surprised,” said Dawn Metschke, Agriculture instructor and FFA sponsor at Johnson Brock Schools. Metschke was chosen to receive the 2026 Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association’s Outstanding Secondary Teacher of the Year at the NRCSA Spring Conference held in Kearney March 19-20.
She has been teaching Agriculture classes at Johnson-Brock Schools for the past nine years. When she began teaching at Johnson-Brock, she earned her Agriculture endorsement so that she could teach Agriculture and Science on a halftime basis for both subjects. She previously taught junior high science courses at Columbus Middle School for 13 years.
When Metschke first started teaching agriculture classes at Johnson- Brock she only had one student in one class and there were only 15 FFA members. Today, her agriculture classes have an average of 16 students. She has 24 or more students in her Science classes and Johnson-Brock’s FFA chapter currently has 80 members.
