APEX, N.C. — It's Shoutout Tuesday, and two White Oak Elementary School staff members have been honored by the Apex Foundation in Apex, North Carolina.

Aditi Sheth delivers small group instruction to upper-grade students and provides support to her first-grade classroom. She develops engaging, student-centered lessons and serves as a natural leader of the IA team, sharing strategic insights and advocating for their perspective. While maintaining her focus on student growth and sustaining a positive school culture, she creates highly creative signs, lessons, and activities, and strategically organizes coverage and peer talents, making a significant impact on the entire school environment.

Meg Kovacs is deeply dedicated to each learner, providing high-quality instruction as an intervention teacher and in classes covering for absent teachers. She uses resources with fidelity, tailors instruction to meet students where they are, and communicates a strong belief in every learner’s potential while coaching teachers to do the same. As Beginning Teacher Mentor coordinator, she designs responsive support programs and pairs new teachers with well-matched mentors. Serving on the Instructional Leadership Team, she contributes insights for school improvement. Mrs. Kovacs also championed research-based small group reading kits, securing funding, managing implementation, training staff, and providing follow-up support, resulting in consistently strong growth for struggling readers.

Thanks to FRESH Local Ice Cream and McDonald’s for helping celebrate APSF Shoutout honorees!

White Oak Elementary; FRESH. Local Ice Cream; McDonalds of Apex, and Harnett County; Town of Apex Government; Wake County Public School System.

White Oak Elementary est. 2016.