Teenagers as leaders: More freedom means more rigor
After a long hiatus and a lot of uncertainty with Together Tulsa, I have been working behind the scenes for quite some time on rebuilding an
Reimagining Education
A blog about pushing past the status quo in how we school our youth. Honest, data-backed, stakeholder-driven, and relentlessly committed to kids.
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Michelle Olmedo and David Sinclair
- Apr 9, 2018
- 8 min
Kathy Taylor on discrimination, educational inequality, and what inspires her to keep pushing for a
SPIRE Journalism Fellows and 9th grade Will Rogers High School students, David Sinclair and Michelle Olmedo, had the opportunity to...
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Brooke Lade
- Nov 21, 2017
- 3 min
Our very first alumna is now a local photographer
Leah Blevins is pink-haired and bright-lipped, with a sweet voice and a permanent smile. She is gentle and warm - has the kind of...
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Brooke Myers, Founder
- Oct 15, 2017
- 4 min
What happens when kids age out of birth-to-eight initiatives?
Rightfully, community leaders and educators around the country have turned their focus and dollars to programs that support early...
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Brooke Myers, Founder
- Aug 6, 2017
- 2 min
The simple trick to getting kids to do anything.
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...
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Austin Stember, Together Tulsa Storyteller
- Apr 18, 2017
- 2 min
The meaning behind our student competition
The greatest praise a person can grant another is that of admiration. The joyous admission that someone else has a quality, habit,...
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Austin Stember, Together Tulsa Collective
- Mar 28, 2017
- 2 min
Lift All Voices; Together We CAN
There’s a segment of service in health care, a conditional response for the most serious of cases. Semantically, it means any course of...
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Rachael Hunter
- Jan 18, 2017
- 2 min
We have a deep hunger to feed, and we're all responsible.
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...
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Austin Stember
- Jan 13, 2017
- 5 min
Four simple things YOU can do each month to pave the road to college for kids
There’s a growing divide in the United States. Not the one between political parties, though this seems to garner most of our attention...
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Austin Stember
- Jan 3, 2017
- 4 min
Three ways the education system is failing our kids and what we need to do about it
Americans have a belief in our education system as a place of egalitarianism. It may be the single point within our lives where our...
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Brooke Myers
- Dec 6, 2016
- 6 min
Part I: What it takes to pave a path
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...
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Angel Pulliam
- Nov 22, 2016
- 2 min
From an East Central teacher: The tangible power of stories
Few things have the unique ability to shape our opinions, construct our perceptions, and bring us together like stories. For most of my...
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Asia Thomas
- Nov 18, 2016
- 3 min
Let's end the "single story" phenomenon.
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...
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Rachael Hunter
- Nov 16, 2016
- 3 min
Perception is reality: How we're working to change perceptions and create a new reality in Tulsa
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...
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Robert Redmond
- Nov 12, 2016
- 3 min
From ignorance to awareness to action: How kids' stories gave me purpose.
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...
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Lexi Tarwater
- Nov 11, 2016
- 2 min
We dare you.
Success comes in many forms. Ralph Waldo Emerson once described achieving success in these words: “To laugh often and much; to win the...
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Brooke Myers, Founder
- Nov 9, 2016
- 3 min
A post-election charge: Living together in love.
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...
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Tyler White
- Nov 5, 2016
- 3 min
A teacher's message: 'My students' stories will change your life.'
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...
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Carrie Hill
- Nov 1, 2016
- 2 min
Carrie Hill: Change starts with our youth
Creating change. It was the most challenging part of being a counselor. I remember the sobering experience of sitting across from a...
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Brooke Lade
- Oct 15, 2016
- 2 min
We don't just believe in these; we live by these.
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...
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