Phillips reflects on run as Nebraska Teacher of the Year

By Ron Burtz on Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Going to college football national championship game was a highlight 
 

  • Nebraska’s 2024 Teacher of the Year Scott Phillips celebrates after hitting the target in a football throw that won him $1,000 to use in his classroom. The challenge was just one of many activities surrounding Phillips’s trip with other teachers of the year from around the nation to attend the college football national championship game in Atlanta on Jan. 20.
    Nebraska’s 2024 Teacher of the Year Scott Phillips celebrates after hitting the target in a football throw that won him $1,000 to use in his classroom. The challenge was just one of many activities surrounding Phillips’s trip with other teachers of the year from around the nation to attend the college football national championship game in Atlanta on Jan. 20.

    The Scott Phillips who attended the college football national championship game in Atlanta recently at the culmination of his term as 2024 Nebraska Teacher of the Year is at least in some ways not the same Scott Phillips who had his 7th grade math classroom invaded to present him with that honor 15 months ago in September of 2023. While many things remain the same and he’s still in that same class…