SPIRE Journalism Fellows and 9th grade Will Rogers High School students, David Sinclair and Michelle Olmedo, had the opportunity to inter...

Rightfully, community leaders and educators around the country have turned their focus and dollars to programs that support early childho...

I can’t lie. I was nervous about having 11 days to coach 10 kids into creating a book full of professional-grade photographs and an in-de...

The greatest praise a person can grant another is that of admiration. The joyous admission that someone else has a quality, habit, abilit...

There’s a segment of service in health care, a conditional response for the most serious of cases. Semantically, it means any course of c...

Tulsa is in an educational crisis. It's hard to pay attention to when there are national headlines that grab at our attention. And simply...

There’s a growing divide in the United States. Not the one between political parties, though this seems to garner most of our attention l...

Americans have a belief in our education system as a place of egalitarianism. It may be the single point within our lives where our colle...

Jose Montoya* is the kind of kid that can walk into a room, and you just know. You know he’s going to give you some kind of hell just by ...

Few things have the unique ability to shape our opinions, construct our perceptions, and bring us together like stories. For most of my l...

In 2009, one of my favorite authors, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, gave a TED Talk that spoke on the “dangers of a single story.” During her ...

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of perception—the way people view the world around them and how two people can be looking at th...

I am a die hard, unashamed lover of Tulsa. I've traveled and am aware of what other cities across America have to offer. Yet, despite the...

Success comes in many forms. Ralph Waldo Emerson once described achieving success in these words: “To laugh often and much; to win the re...

It wasn’t who I voted for. As the results came pouring in last night, I went to bed early because I didn’t feel like watching defeat happ...

Over the last three years I have had the pleasure of teaching high school students in North Tulsa at both Central High School and McLain ...

Creating change. It was the most challenging part of being a counselor. I remember the sobering experience of sitting across from a clien...

We believe in the power of words - in fact, our words are the tool we'll use to bring about cultural change in our city. But we also beli...