Alumni Highlight: Rick Joseph Wins Michigan Teacher of Year Award

Michigan TOY - Rick Joseph
Rick Joseph, a fifth/sixth-grade teacher at Birmingham Covington School in Bloomfield Hills, MI, was named Michigan Teacher of theYear for 2015.

In 2013-2014, Rick participated in the Japan-U.S. Teacher Exchange Program for Education for Sustainable Development, which was jointly funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and the Japanese Government’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He traveled to Japan to study how schools in Japan encouraged sustainable practices in students and he still keeps in touch with other teachers who participated in the program. 

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