Here you will find information for each NRCCS teacher and important classroom info for students and parents.
Grades 1-2
MRS. KATRINA Ms. Katrina Wellman-Machut grew up mainly in South Dakota. As a teenager she lived in the Steamboat Springs area and graduated from SoRoCo in 1995. Katrina received an Associate in Arts at CMC in Steamboat, and then relocated to Fort Collins to continue her education. She graduated with honors in 2002, earning a …
Grades 3-4
MRS. AMY Amy was raised in Colorado and earned BA degrees in Psychology and Education from Western State College in Gunnison, CO. Her teaching career began in Los Lunas, NM and on the plains of Colorado in La Junta, where she was a second grade classroom teacher. The bulk of her teaching experience was as …
Grades 5-6
Welcome to the 5th and 6th grade Class’ website! Warning! This website contains material that will inspire, intrigue and inform. Monday through Friday, thirteen unique brilliant minds gather in Clark, Colorado to learn, explore and share. Search around the page for examples of our learning, pictures of us, and important information. Expectations: It’s in our …
Grades 7-8
Mr. LaChance 7th-8th Grade Teacher Mr. Brandon LaChance has been teaching at N.R.C.C.S since 2009. A native of Minnnesota, he moved to Colorado Springs after college to enjoy the Colorado outdoors and skiing. That is where he met his wife, Mandy. It was a dream of both to move up to Routt County. Instantly, Mr. …
Kindergarten
MISS MISSY Missy Beirne (pronounced like Burney) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She moved to Northern Kentucky, just across the Ohio River at the age 13. Missy earned her BA in Education at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, with an English major and Sociology minor. Her teaching experience includes being a Reader/ Editor and …
Outdoor Education
Coach Raper Coach Lori Raper born in Texas but raised in New Mexico has definitely traveled not only when she was younger in multiple sports programs but also from her teaching/coaching she has seen many states and although she loved traveling she now finds herself very much “at home” in Clark. As now part of …
Resource Teacher
Ms. Michele Michele Friedmann moved to Steamboat Springs in 2007 from Reading, Pennsylvania. She studied at Gettysburg College, earning degrees in Cultural Studies and Elementary Education with an emphasis in Special Education. She played soccer there as well. Michele enjoyed spending a semester abroad in Australia and a semester traveling around the globe on a …