Draft:Rebecka Peterson

= Rebecka Peterson = Rebecka Peterson is an American educator and author in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2022, Rebecka was named Oklahoma Teacher of the Year; and in 2023, she was selected as the National Teacher of the Year. She is one of three Oklahomans to be selected as National Teacher of the Year, with the others being Lawana Trout, 1964, and Edna Donley, 1959.

Rebecka is currently a finalist for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics Science Teaching (PAEMST).

Biography
Rebecka is an immigrant of Swedish-Iranian descent and lived in several countries around the world as her parents traveled as medical missionaries.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Oklahoma Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of South Dakota.

Rebecka is currently a secondary mathematics teacher at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Authorship
Rebecka has written over 1,400 posts for One Good Thing, a blog for teachers to track the good things happening in their classrooms.

She has also been featured in national publications such as PBS Education, Smithsonian Magazine , and Google Education.

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