• Corey Rosser is Michigan’s 2025 Teacher of the Year

• He’s taught at an alternative high school in Lapeer County for 21 years, his entire teaching career

• Rosser advocate for the benefits of alternative teaching

NORTH BRANCH — Corey Rosser, Michigan’s 2025 Teacher of the Year , watched Quest High School’s 13 graduating seniors walk across the stage Thursday. The next day, he took his remaining students on a field trip to show them where the school started 21 years ago: in a storage closet.

The small room with no windows served as the only classroom for the small alternative high school in Lapeer County.

Quest students had to enter through the back of North Branch Area Schools’ traditional high school and couldn’t even walk to the bathroom or cafeteria without teacher supervisio

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