MSGB student Kate Moore participates in the summer capstone course on MSU’s Starkville campus, where students get hands-on laboratory-based instruction.
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Kate Moore and Lidia Tejeda believe their role as educators goes beyond teaching biology. Their dedication to student-learning led these two high school teachers to Mississippi State University’s Master of General Biology (MSGB) online degree program.
“I believe my job is important, not only to educate students in science but to provide a supportive place where my students can learn what kind of person they want to be in the world and in the future,” said Moore, a science teacher at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland,
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