by Laura Latta, Ph.D., Director of Post-Secondary Partnerships and Research Editor's Note: This is the fourth and final installment in the ImpactTulsa multi-part series, Equity in Education. For the previous three installments, please check the bottom of this post. A Personal Note When I began writing this series...
By Lauren Thiesse The acts of racism like the recent violence against unarmed Black people across our nation including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others, are not a new occurrence. Black people have spoken out about these injustices for lifetimes. Many people who...
What is continuous learning and improvement (CLI)? It’s an approach to improvement by which a team uses data to refine a problem, sets goals, and implements small tests of change to identify practices that are successful and can be scaled to a larger scope; CLI...
By Laura Latta, Ph.D. Preparing for life after high school can feel like an exciting adventure and also a challenging obstacle course. There are many steps that students must take to prepare themselves for their post-high school college, career, or military dreams. In 2019, an Oklahoma...
By Lauren Thiesse, MPA Tulsa County has an abundance of nonprofit organizations and public agencies, each with its own unique mission to support our community. When organizations work together, their missions are able to support one another and their individual successes are amplified. This is called...
StriveTogether grant will help local partnership form youth council, diversify leadership council TULSA, OKLA. — StriveTogether, a national network working to bring communities together around data to make decisions and improve results for kids, today announced Tulsa as an awardee for the second round of its...