Tulsa Case Study

Tulsa Public Schools hired Leading Educators—an organization that works with districts and teachers to scale exceptional teaching and create the conditions for teachers to be effective in their jobs—to tailor trainings with individual schools based on their specific needs.¹¹ To do this, Leading Educators utilizes what it refers to as “empower” cohorts in these schools.¹² This means that once a school opts into the training, school leaders pick teachers to become the content leaders for their own building. Starting in 10 schools, and adding 10 more the following year, Tulsa Public Schools’ goal is to build teacher leadership across all district schools.