Dyer reflects on 33-year career

Local native spent entire career teaching preschool in Aurora

Kathryn Dyer will end a 33-year career in education, spent almost entirely in Aurora, when she retires at the end of the school year. She is shown here working with a student in the preschool building where she spent most of her career.
Kathryn Dyer will end a 33-year career in education, spent almost entirely in Aurora, when she retires at the end of the school year. She is shown here working with a student in the preschool building where she spent most of her career.

Kathryn Dyer needed only one day in the preschool classroom years ago to know she had found her life’s calling. A native of Aurora, Dyer earned a teaching degree at the University of Nebraska-Kearney back in 1993, then came home to begin a career that will end next month after 33 years in education. Dyer paused last week while preparing classroom materials to reflect on her tenure, sharing what it…