Tulsa Public Schools Leadership Development

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featured a few of our new school leaders! ✏️

Congratulations to all of our leaders who completed their first day with students for the 2024-25 school year! 🚌📓

We love you, APs! Thanks for all that you do to inspire, motivate, and organize. You make things happen in ways that support the school’s mission - and make it look good. 😊

Congratulations to EL2 participant Patrice Henry for her upcoming book signing. ✍️📝

Go check it out March 30

Excited to share an opportunity! FUTURE DOCTOR Shaina Thomas, a proud Tulsa-native, McLain High School for Science and Technology graduate, is a doctoral student at Howard University’s School of Education. 🎓

Prospective Participants can submit
an interest form via the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/HOMEStudySThomas

Check out the article here. https://www.nwea.org/blog/2024/5-crucial-instructional-coaching-insights-for-principals/?fbclid=PAAaY3UIOvyE70peGsoFaslyucUGXBriNAlGb9-UfAzTPnkhsOVPet9I9Kv0E_aem_AZqqGgXjwuI4NMLHu89JtckNHpOpTueoMYCUNtsNLS3bA_yRjxj7DLooQBBleaX5zgk

Executive Director of Leadership Development, Jennifer Gripado, reflects on the impact of coaching. She says, “prioritizing coaching means prioritizing our educators.”

Coaching is the single greatest way to accelerate teacher growth which means investing in them! Yes - we build skill and that’s important to outcomes. But coaching is so much more.

We have the opportunity to really support our educators.

Recently, the Tulsa World (https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/education/tps-zeroing-in-on-6-200-students-who-must-improve-on-state-test-to-help/article_9a0aec1c-a03f-11ee-a048-572647717f52.html) called for more than 1,000 volunteers to step up and address the urgent need in Tulsa Public Schools. How many Tulsans will answer the call?

The situation in public education reminds me of an old parable of a terrible storm that throws thousands of starfish onto a beach. Soon, a young girl began chucking them into the ocean. After some time, a man approached her and said, “Why are you doing this? You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”
She stood deflated, staring at the sand. Then, she picked up another starfish and threw it. “Well, I made a difference for that one!”

Hundreds of Tulsa educators have been throwing starfish for the past 87 days. Despite seeing a beach full of stars, they keep bending down and finding the next one—every starfish matters. Tulsa educators will keep doing it until the school year is done.

But there’s more. In the story, the whole town is so inspired by the girl that everyone joins in, and the starfish are saved. *Hooray!*

But no one is coming.

Either this little girl gets help or a wave sweeps through this beach.

We need to rush the beach. Rushing the beach means volunteering one hour a week with Reading Partners, donating resources to your neighborhood school, or considering a career as a teacher. Set an alarm to wake up your school-aged neighbor. Pick up a single starfish to help clear our beach. Visit tulsaschools.org/volunteer to learn more.

Photo credit: Newsweek

We are honored to work with people who understand the complexities of the human experience - for our students and our staff. Our equity team works across the system to promote, challenge, support, and coach in areas of safety, dignity, and belonging. Thanks for his contributions to our district.

Prioritize or perish!