Dr. Ionell Jay R. Terogo, LPT is a current Fulbright Ph.D. international scholar to the U.S. at the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), taking up a degree in Education Studies with a specialization in Higher Education and Student Affairs. He is the Director of the Office of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of San Jose – Recoletos, a private Catholic institution in Cebu, Philippines. In his work as in charge of curriculum and instruction, he assisted in several teacher improvement sessions on curriculum design and integration, outcomes assessment, and online flexible learning. He champions continuing professional development, educational data research, cultural exchange programs, and holistic development – creating programs and initiatives to support faculty, administrators, and pre-service teachers. This advocacy persists in his work as a lecturer at MET Review Center, handling Professional Education, Social Sciences, and English subjects. His interest in teaching and learning had developed immensely since his college years with a degree in Secondary Education – English (Summa Cum Laude) and graduate studies in English as a Second Language (UP Cebu) and English with a concentration in Language (USJ-R). He is recognized as a Most Outstanding Teacher in his teaching stints in both high school (2011-2016) and college (2015-present) and has been awarded as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert for the Philippines since 2018 and as the Best Implementor of a Synchronous Teaching Model by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED-7) in 2020. He had been entrusted with grants related to global citizenship education and social justice, with one grant being a mentee of UNESCO Peace Laureate, Professor Toh Swee Hin. Currently, he is working as a research collaborator on projects associated with higher education diversity and inclusion, post-colonialist and critical perspectives in education, international student development, and pre-service teacher development at OSU College of Education and Human Ecology.