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Lessons in Education

Brooke Lade

Mar 20, 2020
3 min

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

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Kathy Taylor on discrimination, educational inequality, and what inspires her to keep pushing for a

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 inter...

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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 presenc...

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What happens when kids age out of birth-to-eight initiatives?

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 childho...

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The simple trick to getting kids to do anything.

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 in-de...

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The meaning behind our student competition

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, abilit...

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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 c...

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We have a deep hunger to feed, and we're all responsible.

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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Four simple things YOU can do each month to pave the road to college for kids

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 l...

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Three ways the education system is failing our kids and what we need to do about it

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 colle...

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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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From an East Central teacher: The tangible power of stories

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 l...

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Let's end the "single story" phenomenon.

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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Perception is reality: How we're working to change perceptions and create a new reality in Tulsa

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 th...

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From ignorance to awareness to action: How kids' stories gave me purpose.

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 re...

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A post-election charge: Living together in love.

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 happ...

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A teacher's message: 'My students' stories will change your life.'

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 clien...

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We don't just believe in these; we live by these.

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 beli...

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