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Bailie Thom set to teach business education
By MELISSA DUNN
Staff Writer
The NRHEG school district has employed a person of royalty as the new business education teacher; Miss Waseca County Sleigh and Cutter 2023 Bailie Thom has been settling in and getting ready for her classes. Thom, originally from St. Clair, says this will be her first full year of teaching. “I was hired by my fall student teaching placement to teach a few of their spring courses in La Crescent.”
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Seberson to teach kindergarten
By MELISSA DUNN
Staff Writer
New kindergarten teacher Nicole Seberson is a Waseca native who spent her first few years teaching in Wisconsin after graduating from Winona State University in May of 2022 with a major in early childhood and elementary education and a minor in child advocacy studies (CAST).
Seberson says that teaching has not always been her dream. "For a long time I hoped to be a vet or something with nature. However, in high school I got a job at Grace Garden Daycare Center that changed everything. I loved watching how kids explored the world, found everything interesting and had such wild imaginations. I decided then that I wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to help grow that fascination about the world and be a part of that ever-growing imagination.”
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Tyler Macha to teach physics and chemistry
By MELISSA DUNN
Staff Writer
Physics and chemistry teacher Tyler Macha comes to the district with prior experience; two years in Victoria, Texas, and five years in La Grange, Texas. Macha also taught college-level microbiology labs for two years during grad school at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, where he received both his BS in Biology and Life Science Education and his MS in Biology.
“I didn't initially want to be a teacher until I was in college,” Macha says, “but I knew of the impact teachers had in my life growing up, and I wanted to help the next generation in the same way.”
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By MELISSA DUNN
Staff Writer
New mathematics teacher Jacob Weber says he applied to the district because “there were numerous people who had told me that they would have chosen NRHEG to work at as they have always heard really good things about the school.” Weber graduated from MSU Mankato in the spring of 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in teaching mathematics and a minor in mathematics . He currently resides in Owatonna with Gigi the Tortico cat (he doesn’t know if she’s a tortoiseshell or a calico), though his hometown is Pine City. “Not to be confused with Pine Island,” he jokes. “Pine City is about 1 hour north of the Twin Cities and you need to pass through it on your way to Duluth.” Weber has five older siblings, is an uncle to eleven nieces and nephews, and is newly engaged.
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Muske to teach college and high school level math
By MELISSA DUNN
Staff Writer
Math teacher Randy Muske might be new to the district, but he comes with 27 years of prior teaching experience; most recently at USC (one year), GFW (one year), and Truman (nine years). Muske completed his bachelor of science degree in mathematics at St. Cloud State University and his master degree in mathematics at the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Mankato with his wife and “the cutest Havanese dog in the world named Shama (rhymes with ‘mama’).”
Muske says that in college he wasn't sure what to do with a math major. “I decided to take a couple of education classes to see if I would like teaching. One class had us out in schools and I decided I liked it; my professors thought I had a knack for it. So I added the education major to my mathematics major to get licensed.” One of Muske’s specialties is the teaching of college-level and advanced math courses; exactly what NRHEG was looking for.