Anessa Beimert, Kindergarten
Beimert graduated from Bethel University in 2003 with a Bachelors of Arts in early childhood education and elementary education. She has taught early childhood education for nine years and kindergarten for two years. Her licenses are pre-primary education (ages 3-5) and elementary education K-6. She lives in Almelund with her husband, two daughters and one son.
Amy Cross, Kindergarten
Cross graduated from St. Cloud State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in child and family studies with a birth- to third-grade teaching license. She has 11 years of experience teaching early childhood, kindergarten-fifth-grade and special education.
Anne Rood, First Grade
Rood’s teaching career began in 1997 after she graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She has taught in a wide variety of in traditional classrooms, multi-aged classrooms as well as working as a reading-math interventions teacher. Outside of school, she enjoys spending time with her husband Lee and their three children.
Dorothy Senger, Third Grade
Senger attended Hamline University for her undergraduate degree in economics and political science in 2001 and obtained her teaching license from Hamline in 2009. She has spent the last two years at Wyoming Elementary as an ADSIS reading specialist and prior to that she was a Title 1 teacher. She also taught summer school, Targeted Services in the Forest Lake School District, with a focus on math, reading and social skills.
Elizabeth Stenson, Third Grade
Stenson graduated from Winona State University with a degree in elementary education with an early childhood emphasis, as well as a Spanish major. She has taught ECFE and preschool and has most recently taught second-grade in a neighboring district. She is thrilled to be teaching third- grade this year. She lives in North Branch with her husband and their two fur babies.
Taylor Zimmerman, Fourth Grade
Zimmerman graduated from the University of St. Thomas in May 2015 with a Bachelors of Arts in elementary education and S.T.E.M. This is her first year teaching.
Jessica Foschi, Math
Foschi is a recent graduate from St. Cloud State University where she attained her degree in elementary education. She then went on to St. Mary’s University where she received her endorsement in Middle School Mathematics. Over the past year she was able to gain a lot of classroom experience through student teaching and being a substitute teacher.
Heather Mix, Social Studies
Mix is the 7th-grade Social Studies Teacher at the Art and Science Academy and will also be working in the Title 1 Program.
She graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. Cloud State University with an elementary education K-8 degree with a Middle School Social Studies emphasis. She has years of experience working with students in the private, public, for profit and nonprofit sectors. She was born and raised in Cambridge and still resides there today with her husband and two daughters.
Paul Maurer, Math
This is Maurer’s 10th-year of teaching. Throughout his career he has taught 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th-grades and has enjoyed this variety of students and curriculum. His favorite subjects to teach (and learn) are math and science.
He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Rachel, and their four sons.
Frank Asleson, Special Education
Asleson has been a special education teacher for 16 years. He received his teaching undergraduate degree from Saint Cloud State University. He attended graduate school at Saint Mary’s University and completed his Director of Special Education coursework at Hamline University. He is married with two children.
Kristina Clem
Clem was raised in Winchester, Wisconsin (near the UP Michigan border). She earned her special education degree in developmental disability from St. Cloud State University in 2007. Since then she returned back to SCSU for her Autism Certificate, Learning Disability license, and Emotional- Behavior Disability license.
Jeni Dale, Music
Dale has over 20 years of experience teaching music to students of all ages, from early childhood to mature adults. She received her B.A. in Music Education from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota where she performed and served as section leader in the internationally renowned Concordia Choir. She earned a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Development from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, as well as a K-12 Reading Certification. She enjoys relaxing with her husband and children.
Sue Redfield, Visual Art
Redfield has been teaching over 30 years, 20 of those years teaching art; design, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and pottery to children with emotional behavioral disorders in a residential treatment level IV education program and 10 years teaching predominantly ceramic art and sculpture at St. Francis High School in District 15.
Brianna Forsyth, Special Education
Forsyth is currently a Grad student at Bethel University finishing her Master’s in special education. Her past experience includes working at the Minnesota Autism Center as a lead behavior therapist
Breinn McDonald, Language Arts & Theater
McDonald worked at Champlin Park High School for the past eight years, and before that she worked in White Bear Lake and Roseville Area Schools. She has also taught Conversational English in Bangkok, Thailand. She went to Bethel for both her undergraduate and Master’s degrees, and is currently a student at Hamline University in the Administrative Licensure program.
Right now she is teaching language arts, acting, and a small news class at ASA, and serving as an instructional coordinator. She is married with three kids and lives in the North Branch area.