OHS Welcomes News Staff: Bird, Cohrs, Miron and Wilson

OHS welcomes Ms. Rachael Bird as the new EL Teacher/Equity Coach this year. Bird attended the University of Wisconsin- Madison and Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in teaching. She started her teaching career in Maplewood, Minn., moved to Eagan, Minn. and spent the last five years at Wilson Elementary School in Owatonna. Wilson said, “I actually went ...

New to staff at OHS, Mr. Troy Cohrs is an experienced teacher with over 25 years as an educator. Mr. Cohrs teaches English 9 for the majority of this year as well as some English 10 classes. He said that he originally applied to the Alternative Learning Center because he was excited about what they were doing there, and he has encountered professionals from Owatonna that were really good to work w...

Meet Mr. Miron, a new Spanish teacher at OHS. He attended Rochester Mayo High School and went on to attend Benedictine College in Kansas, where he got his bachelor’s degree in Spanish Education and Secondary Education. This will be his first year teaching, and he will be teaching Spanish I and Spanish II at OHS. Mr. Miron decided to join the OHS Staff because he heard it was a good school, he is clo...

Ms. Erica Wilson will be joining the Owatonna High School staff in the Family and Consumer Science department. She grew up in Le Mars, Iowa. Ms. Wilson knew her calling towards the end of her senior year of high school because of her enjoyment in the FACs department.  Ms. Wilson attended the University of South Dakota State (USD) where she got her Bachelor's degree in Education and Family and Consumer ...