Michigan Teacher Chosen for Unique Trip to Brazil

Trip to Japan immerses Perrysburg teacher in cultural study

For Megan Kuns, a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Hull Prairie Intermediate School in Perrysburg, a 10-day trip to Japan was both a trip of a lifetime and a lot of work.

Michigan teacher chosen for unique trip to Brazil

Matthew Cottone, a sixth-grade social studies teacher at a downstate middle school, will have his passport stamped again this summer. The educator from Van Hoosen Middle School in Rochester Hills, a suburb north of Detroit in Oakland County, was to catch a flight on Friday heading to the Atlantic Forest along Brazil’s east coast as a fellow helping scientists with their research  through the non-profit Earthwatch. Earthwatch, founded in 1971, en…