Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Core Goal: Student Achievement
% portable square footage (as compared to total district sq. ft.)
Preliminary Results
Key Issues
Strategic Objective E
Expand the concept of community schools to appropriate scales of growth within the
District. A community school is both a place and a set of partnerships between the school
and other community resources. Community schools combine the best educational
practices with a wide range of vital in-house health and social services to ensure that
children are physically, emotionally and socially prepared to learn.
Progress and Accomplishments
‣ A Community Schools Office has been created.
‣ Approximately 8,000 students are being served in ten mentoring community schools with 50% of the
schools committed to the continuous learning calendar.
Meeting the serious challenges and barriers to success families face daily, demands supportive
community partnerships and creative best practices which nurture the whole child and family
unselfishly within their own neighborhood. Administrators, staff and coordinators are empowering
and enriching the school cultures with home visits, daily lunch and recess with teacher mentorship,
daily sidewalk conversations with parents, etc. which bring strong communication and involvement
with parents and family, the first steps in building a foundation for success
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Measures of Success – results data not available
% students served by community schools
% students participating in after school programs
% campuses conducting parent/community outreach events
Avg. # volunteers/campus (ES/MS/HS)
% community school students attending a Mentoring or Sustaining
level campus
% student participating in Continuous Learning Schools Intercession
Avg. value added scores community schools as compared to
District scores
Preliminary Results
Key Issues
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