Nancy Rosenow
Director of Early Education Programs

Nancy has been Director of the Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (which runs the First-Plymouth Early Education Programs) for 18 years. Nancy has developed a number of community-wide initiatives: a Multicultural Education Outreach Program; a Scholarship Fund that provides more than $80,000 in tuition assistance to low-income families each year; and an annual Community Concert Series and Children’s Festival. She also works in collaboration with area Universities & Colleges to provide off-campus teacher and student training experiences. She graduated from the University of Nebraska Lincoln with a degree in early childhood & elementary education and has completed graduate work to become an Endorsed High/Scope trainer for the Nebraska Department of Education. She has served as a Primary Program Facilitator and consultant for the Nebraska Department of Education, Lincoln Public Schools and for programs throughout Nebraska and Iowa. Currently she serves as Nebraska’s state president for the National Association for the Education of Young Children. She also works with the Nebraska Early Childhood Coalition, is a member of the Nebraska Department of Education’s Early Childhood Policy Study Committee, and serves as facilitator of the Community Services Initiative Early Childhood and Youth Coalition.