McGraw Hill Announces Winners of the Third Annual ALEKS All-Star Educator Awards

K–12 Winners: Sharon Beeson and Cece Jacobs

Sharon Beeson teaches grades 4–6 at James Simons Montessori in Charleston, South Carolina. Sharon uses ALEKS to get a granular view of what skills her students need support with. Her students bring two of their favorite ALEKS questions every Monday to discuss as a class.

Cece Jacobs is a 6th and 7th grade math teacher and basketball coach at Cheyenne Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona. Cece uses ALEKS to differentiate instruction, support students with learning gaps, and meet her students where they are.

Higher Ed Winners: Hadi Arman and Elisabeth Peters

Hadi Arman is a chemistry lecturer at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Hadi found success in getting his students to engage with ALEKS every day and learned that those students who engaged daily in ALEKS consistently improved their performance. Hadi presented his findings and faculty unanimously voted to use ALEKS for General Chemistry.

Elisabeth Peters is a Mathematics & Statistics Lecturer at University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). Elisabeth began using ALEKS at UNCW in 2017 when she and her colleagues needed help getting all their students to a level of learning that would enable them to progress through the curriculum together. Since then, Elisabeth has helped dozens of colleagues in her department, and across the United States, learn how to integrate ALEKS into their Precalculus courses.