Tulsa Public Schools is teaching its elementary students skills they’ll use beyond the classroom. A fourth grade class at Eugene Field Elementary is learning about poetry and they’re gaining other skills you can’t learn in a book. “From Ms. Howard I learned that you can’t just bulge out because people are gonna not want to…
Oftentimes, when adults are asked to think back to the experiences and people who influenced or motivated them in their youth, a coach, club leader, camp counselor or other youth worker comes to mind. The presence of that one caring adult is often the spark that helps a young person feel connected to their academic…
Karen Pittman has seen a lot of progress in how people view the role of after-school programming in the development and success of at-risk children. While these programs used to be seen as a pleasant but ultimately unnecessary luxury, more and more communities are beginning to understand the intrinsic value of expanded learning opportunities, said…
Later this week, on the morning of October 24th, the Opportunity Project — a Tulsa nonprofit that (per its website) acts as a “citywide intermediary for expanded learning [and for] connecting youth to the world of opportunity” — will celebrate the 20th anniversary of National Lights On Afterschool Day. This celebration begins at 8:30am at the…
This brief is part of a series on Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out and focuses on the need to develop social and emotional learning strategies that can be taught quickly and effectively. It targets specific behaviors that can be used across in and out of school settings.
Latino students are the largest ethnic group in U.S. public schools, representing 25 percent of the overall population. Yet, Latinos make up only 9 percent of the nation’s teaching corps. While demographic gaps exist between all nonwhite student populations and teachers, the gap for Latinos is the largest, a new report from New America’s Education…
Many teachers in Woodridge School District 68, located 30 miles west of Chicago, used to think their low-income students had little grit and their gifted students had lots.
In schools across America, perseverance is making a comeback, respect is getting its due, and relationships are as much a part of the lesson plan as reading, writing, and arithmetic.
The Opportunity Project, Tulsa’s out-of-school intermediary program under the Tulsa Community Foundation, and the two programs it launched after inception — Relate 918 and AfterOpp — will begin their third year in September.