About me
Rose is an experienced educator dedicated to the tireless pursuit of educational equity and excellence for children and youth. She is on a mission to transform how we talk about, view and relate to the teaching profession so as to restore the prestige the profession deserves in our society. She is igniting a social movement that encourages talented people to become teachers, especially those from communities of color and American Indian communities. Her original engineering background and experience at Honeywell, coupled with her most honored role as a class teacher at Plymouth Youth Center and Minneapolis Public Schools, have continued to ground her life’s work in educational reform and transformation. She is professor emerita of Urban Education at Metro State University, and a former assistant commissioner at the Minnesota Department of Education. She is currently an elected school board director of Roseville Area Schools and a 2022 Bush Fellow.
