Stop by the Career Center's table and learn about the continued services we provide to our alumni! We support recent alums for up to five years after graduation. We offer assistance with:
Updating your resume
Finding and applying for other positions
Licensure questions
Searching and applying for graduate school programs
and more!
More information can be found on our website: https://careercenter.education.wisc.edu/
The School of Education's Career Center offers continued support to alumni for up to five years after graduation! If you need any help updating resumes, finding and applying for other positions, interviewing, searching and applying for graduate school, or licensing questions - we're... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT Alumni Lounge702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706
2023 National Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson is a math teacher who loves stories. Rebecka is in her 15th year of education, the last 11 of which have been at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rebecka used her platform as National Teacher of the Year to highlight teachers’ stories of the good that is happening in education. She believes that when we learn each other’s stories, we carry a piece of each other with us. This helps us to authentically advocate for our students, teachers, and their communities.
In the midst of a challenging first year of teaching, Rebecka joined other educators in a daily practice of noting "one good thing" in her classroom. They lived by the motto that “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” This habit transformed her work. Rebecka now collaborates with fellow educators, emphasizing the importance of cultivating intentional joy as a means to sustain oneself in the difficult but beautiful profession of teaching.
Rebecka is a proud immigrant of Iranian-Swedish descent and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband, Brett, and their son, Jonas.
