Kevin Brady has been hired as a full-time teacher for business, accounting, and technology at LaSalle High School in St. Ignace. After working for St. Ignace Area Schools for the past five years as a substitute teacher, Kevin Brady was hired this summer as a fulltime teacher at LaSalle High School in St. Ignace, where he will be teaching business, accounting, and technology classes.

“If I could pick a job anywhere, it would be here,” said Mr. Brady of his new position. “I think there are a lot of exciting things going on at St. Ignace Area Schools, and I'm looking forwarding to doing an excellent job.”

Mr. Brady acquired his undergraduate degree in business from Alma College in 1987, and his master's in business administration in 1990 from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. To add to his teaching credentials, he recently earned a bachelor's degree in social studies from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, Utah, taking online correspondence courses.

As a teacher, Mr. Brady said his philosophy is to ingrain a sense of work ethic in students' lives that will carry over into their adult careers. At LaSalle, he will be teaching two technology classes for freshmen, business and accounting classes for upperclassmen, as well two hours of social studies every week at the Sault Tribe Youth Center.

“There can be a tendency with kids in school to just get work done and not be concerned about the quality,” he said, “and I'd like to change that habit, to get them a lot more interested in doing excellent work.”

Mr. Brady also believes technology can be incorporated into teaching lessons as a way to keep students engaged, pointing out today's children are used to fast-pace interaction.

“If you can get computers and technology involved, creating an interaction that involves technology in an interesting way, [students] don't know they're learning because they're having fun doing it,” he said

Mr. Brady and his wife, Heather, also a teacher in the district, have owned the Emporium, an antique store in downtown St. Ignace, for 16 years. They have four children, Azalea, 6, Wisteria, 4, Camellia, 2, and Jedidiah, 1.

Mr. Brady enjoys golfing and attending baseball games with his brother, Neal. Over the course of many summers, the two baseball aficionados have been to 36 major league stadiums.