Being an educator was not in Patricia Cantore’s plan. She was born with a passion for Journalism and storyteller. She majored in Journalism in 1992, but even before her graduation, she was working as a reporter in one of the most prestigious daily newspapers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She worked as a reporter, editor, and PR consultant from 1991 to 1998 when she moved to the United States.

While working for Discovery Channel in Miami, she started being interested in education. But, this new passion was consolidated when her daughter started kindergarten.

Her journey as an educator started in 2011 as a substitute teacher for Broward County Public Schools. In 2013, she became a media assistant at Franklin Academy Pembroke Pines. From 2014 to 2018, many hats were worn at the same school: Language Arts interim for middle school, elementary Spanish, and middle school Journalism.

In 2018, Cantore started teaching high school Spanish classes and Journalism at PPCM West Campus, where she has been advising The Jaguar Times, the first school's newspaper, Lightning News, a news flash, and many other products to be posted in their social media handles.

Cantore is always looking for new platforms to engage her students. Her lessons are enriched with educational technology. Her journalism student’s also had a chance to become real authors. They published children’s books with official ISBNs registered with the Library of Congress, with a grant recieved from Broward Education Foundation.

In 2020, Cantore was one of the scholarship recipients of Dr. Nagler’s Instructional Design and Technology Master’s Degree program at Full Sail University. Her capstone project is Engaged Citizenship through Service Learning.

A holistic approach is her pedagogy style. She believes that educators need to understand the learners as a whole person, with emotional, cultural, socio-economical differences. She makes a cross-disciplinary integration available to her students, integrating areas not too conventional to her classes, like music, arts and crafts, storytelling, culinary, fashion, culture, real-life situations, science, social-emotional learning, and more.

An avid volunteer herself, Cantore is thrilled to be one of the co-founders of the Leadership and Service program. Her goal is to bring connections back to classrooms: teacher to student, student to student, and student to the community. She dreams to bring humanity to the classroom, where learners can learn how to be engaged citizens by serving the community.

She lives in Miramar, Florida, with her husband. They have two children, Julia, 20, and Bruno, 16. Cantore was born in Brazil; she speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.