Rose Rodriguez is a passionate educator with over 20 years of hands-on experience in the classroom, both traditional and virtual. She has been a National Board Certified teacher and mentor and continues to mentor new teachers to this day. She is a four-time Teacher of the Year Nominee and was also nominated in 2017 for the Florida Hispanic Heritage Month Educator Award. She earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Arkansas State University recently and hopes to achieve her dream of obtaining her doctoral degree in the near future. At present, she considers her classroom the lab where she and her team of colleagues can research, test, and implement best practices to maximize the impact on their student’s learning! As a Fulbright Fellow, she has made it her goal to help each one of her students become responsible, engaged global citizens.