Let us welcome Teacher Mary Rose Lagunsad as the Reading Icon for July 2018! Teacher Mary Rose Lagunsad Mary Rose A. Lagunsad is one of the NCR Coordinators and Workshop Trainers/Facilitators of Pinoy Reading Buddies. She took her Bachelor ’ s Degree in Elementary Education with Specialization in Early Childhood Education from the New Era University. She juggled her roles as a mom, wife, PNU MA Ed Special Education student, bibliophile & Academic Coordinator of Montessori Academy of Valenzuela, where she taught in their Elementary and High School Departments from 2002 to 2012. Teacher Marose, as she is fondly called, answered her calling to serve the underprivileged in 2012. She became a Kindergarten teacher from 2012 to 2017, a Grade 5 English and Filipino teacher last school year & at present a Grade 2 Teacher at Bitik Elementary School, the 1st Public school in Valenzuela City to become a PRB partner school. She was a former Member and Parallel Session