Former CCS teacher takes principal’s job in Perkins County

A former Chase County Schools teacher has accepted her first position as a principal at Perkins County Schools in Grant.
Perkins County Supt. Phillip Picquet announced that Nancy Sorensen of Grand Island accepted the offer to join PCS.
Sorensen was chosen from a field of three finalists for the position.
She and husband Mike moved to Grand Island after a nine-year stint at Chase County Schools in Imperial. Nancy taught at CCS for eight years in kindergarten, second grade and fourth grade.
She is currently an elementary teacher at Dodge Elementary, where she has taught fourth grade and first grade.
Mike is the activities director at Grand Island Northwest. He served as high school principal at Chase County.
She completed her degree work for her principalship through Wayne State College in August 2019.
She is a native of Alliance and obtained her teaching degree at Chadron State College, where she met her husband.
The opening at PCS drew special interest to Sorensen because their daughter Bethany and son-in-law Alex Malmkar live in Grant. In fact, Supt. Piquet said all three finalists for the position had ties to the local area in one way or another.
Bethany is also an elementary teacher and did her student teaching at PC Elementary. Following that, she taught at Wallace.
She has put her teaching career on hold to raise her family. She and Alex have two daughters.
Sorensen did the same, taking about eight years away from teaching to raise Bethany and her brother, Isaac, who recently graduated from UNL.
She said they discussed the Perkins County position a great deal since Mike will remain at Northwest. They decided this opportunity for her was the right one, and it brings her closer to their grandkids.