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
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
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
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.
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.
Gary Percefull, often found with a helmet strapped to his head and a crew of kids riding behind him, has no regrets about trading in his school board seat for
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