Rick Joseph Michigan Teacher of the Year 2016

The Michigan Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Education Conference was a rousing success.

This year we were reminded of the need to create climate change in our classrooms and communities. We are taking our next steps toward creating safe and inclusive c...

 Teacher Lab provides colleagues the opportunity to participate in a job-embedded three-part process of professional learning:

1. Meet together with colleagues who share the same problem of practice or area of focus to study and reflect on that specific area of profess...

As the Michigan Teacher of the Year for 2016, I serve as an ambassador between educators and students throughout the state and the Michigan Legislature, Department of Education, and State Board of Education. In this role, I visit schools from Iron Mountain to Monroe t...

Service to others. An intense preservation of relationships. A commitment to community built on Christian principles of love.

These are the characteristics that embody Loyola High School. A unique learning environment on the westside of Detroit, Loyola has grown stead...

When I first stepped inside Saginaw High School, I could feel a palpable sense of resiliency and community pride that runs deep in this mid-Michigan town. The smallest of the state’s three key historic automobile producing communities, Saginaw – like Flint and Detroit...