Find job opportunities, professional development resources, and career connections through the Teach For America Oklahoma City alumni network.
Transforming education requires a broad and diverse coalition of people united around our shared values and common purpose. Our expanding alumni network reaches across central Oklahoma and holds the promise of a powerful and lasting local movement, beyond two years in the classroom.
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Alumni Across Central Oklahoma
Continue Your Leadership Journey
The TFA Oklahoma City alumni team is here to support you as you strengthen and deepen your impact toward educational equity.
Our team works to understand your values and goals, help you build connections within the alumni community, and develop your individual and collective leadership skills.
Transforming education requires a broad and diverse coalition of people united around our shared values and common purpose. To support alumni leadership across all levels, we have structured four Impact Pathways around areas where alumni can grow to amplify their impact. We also offer individualized leadership coaching for our alumni across all pathways and career stages.
Explore different pathways for accelerating your impact below.
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Educational Leadership
Alumni continue to lead in K-12 classrooms, as teachers, school leaders, school systems leaders, and in higher education. Our local resources available to alumni include:
- School Leader Fellowship
- Excellent School Visits
- School System Opportunities
- Higher Education
In addition, explore a national list of in-state, online, and national graduate school programs, and learn more about visiting an an excellent school through our national Schools to Learn From program.
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Social Sector Leadership
Alumni are creating positive change in the social sector as entrepreneurs, innovators, and nonprofit professionals. Locally, Teach For America Oklahoma City can help with:
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation Support
- Nonprofit Networking and Professional Development
Through the TFA network, you’ll have access to support, networking opportunities, and professional development for careers in the social innovation sector.
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Public Leadership
We support alumni in Oklahoma City who are leading across the public sphere in a variety of roles, including:
- Policy Fellowship
- Public Office
- Advocacy
- Organizing
- Civic Engagement
Learn more about our Capitol Hill Fellows Program and opportunities offered through our partner, Leadership For Educational Equity.
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Community Leadership
Our alumni are committed to strengthening their communities through leadership. Connect with our alumni affairs team to learn more about these opportunities:
- Philanthropy
- Volunteerism
- Professional Affiliation
- Local Board Opportunities
- Collective Impact Cohort
Our Central Oklahoma Alumni Network
There are 170 TFA alums in Central Oklahoma working in a variety of roles that impact education.
Click on the tabs in each category below to see where our alumni are working. Contact Yvita.Fox@teachforamerica.org to connect with alumni at the specific school(s) or organization(s) you are interested in.
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Alumni working in schools
29
School leaders (including grade-level lead, department chair, instructional coach)
13
School principals & assistant principals
66
Teacher Leaders, counselors & other school support roles.
Alumni Working in Schools
Bodine Elementary
Coolidge Elementary
Coronado Elementary
Eugene Field Elementary School
FD Moon Academy
Fillmore Elementary School
Freedom Elementary
Highland Park Elementary
Martin Luther King Elementary
Lee Elementary
Lincoln Elementary
Millwood Elementary
North Highland Elementary
Northridge Elementary
Pioneer Park Elementary
Plainview Elementary
Positive Tomorrows
Ridgecrest Elementary
Rockwood Elementary
Santa Fe South the Hills Elementary School
Santa Fe Spero Elementary
Shedeck Elementary
Southern Hills Elementary
Stanley Hupfeld Elementary
Thelma R. Parks Elementary
Truman Elementary
Washington Elementary School
West Nichols Hills Elementary
Western Heights Elementary
Winds West Elementary School
Capitol Hill Middle School
Deer Creek Middle School
Highland East Junior High
Jefferson Middle School
Lawton Central Middle School
MacArthur Middle School
Mustang Middle School
Roosevelt Middle School
Santa Fe South Middle School
Summit Middle School
Taft Middle School
Webster Middle School
Capitol Hill High School
Cristo Rey High School
Douglass High School
Edmond North High School
Lawton High School
Norman North High School
Putnam City High School
Santa Fe South High School
Star Spencer High School
US Grant High School
Casady School
Classen School of Advanced Studies
Dove Science Academy South
Epic Charter Schools
Heritage Hall
KIPP Oklahoma City
Odyssey Leadership Academy
Westminster School
8
Education nonprofit leaders
6
District/State Education Staff
14
Higher education leaders
8
Nonprofit leaders
Alumni in Other Education or Non-Profit Roles
EF+Math Program
Foundation for Excellence in Education
K20 Center at the University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma Public School Resource Center
Student Success Agency Teach for America
Teaching and Leading Initiative
Transcend
Tribal Education Departments National Assembly
Oklahoma City Public Schools Central Office
Oklahoma State Department of Education
Oklahoma City Community College
Oklahoma City University
Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
University of Oklahoma
American Red Cross Central Oklahoma
American Red Cross National Headquarters
Center for Employment Opportunities
It’s My Community Initiative/Public Strategies
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
OKC Beautiful
Oklahoma State Alliance of YMCAs
8
Alumni working in healthcare
10
Alumni business leaders
9
Alumni working in law/policy
9
Alumni serving as primary caregivers
Alumni Working Outside of Education
Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center
Community Health Centers of Oklahoma
Family Development and Intervention Services
Lifetime Fitness
Mansions Senior Living
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic
OU Medical Center
Clevyr
Humphreys Capital
Institutional Shareholder Services
Martin Marietta
Next Era Energy Resources
Paycom
University of Oklahoma
Ryan Whaley Coldiron Jantzen Peters & Webber PLLC
McAfee and Taft
Hartzog Conger Cason
Fenton, Fenton, Smith, Reneu & Moon, P.C.
Food and Drug Administration
Glenn Coffee and Associates Oklahoma County
Western District of Oklahoma
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Yvita Fox, Director, Leadership Development — Yvita.Fox@teachforamerica.org