Teach For America Placement Schools

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Where Corps Members Teach

The achievement gap is present across Oklahoma and our corps members see it first hand in our five placement districts: Tulsa public schools, Oklahoma City public schools, Community Action Project, the YWCA, and KIPP. In the 2011-2012 school year, 50 corps members are teaching in Oklahoma City, the first time corps members are working in the state’s capital. Oklahoma leads the country in providing early childhood education services and we are building on these placements with 42 corps members in pre-K and kindergarten classrooms.

Get to Know Gilcrease Middle School

In Tulsa, we have also been working to turn around one of the most challenged schools in the state. The year before TFA arrived in Tulsa, Gilcrease Middle School was shut down for three days because it was deemed unsafe for students to enter the school. In 2010 only 23% of students scored proficient on the Oklahoma state tests in reading. Over the past two years we have placed up to 15 corps members at the school, which is nearly half of the school’s faculty. For the 2010-2011 school year they are projecting between an 18-28 positive shift in student test scores, which will be some of the largest gains in a local turn around school in recent years. This dramatic improvement comes alongside some huge cultural shifts on the campus that leave us confident that the school is on a very different path today than it was a year ago.