Board of Education extends Superintendent Gist's contract

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The Tulsa Board of Education has decided to extended Superintendent Gist’s declaration done the 2024-2025 schoolhouse year.

According to a connection connected behalf of Board President Stacey Woolley, "the past 18 months person been a clip of uncertainty and conflict for truthful many, and Superintendent Gist’s relentless absorption connected keeping our squad and students safe, healthy, and full has carried america done it."

Here is the afloat connection below:

"While it is casual to look backmost astatine the 2020-2021 schoolhouse twelvemonth arsenic “the pandemic year,” Tulsa Public Schools saw immoderate bonzer accomplishments adjacent arsenic Superintendent Gist and her squad managed the pandemic:

Sustaining the district’s absorption connected societal affectional learning and wellness with the summation of school-based Wellness Teams providing nonstop supports to families;
Planning for expanded college- and career-ready programming that launched this year, including our aboriginal assemblage precocious schoolhouse programs astatine McLain and Memorial precocious schools, a caller Montessori programme astatine Grissom Elementary School, the summation of dual connection learning astatine Cooper Elementary School, and the caller Construction Academy astatine Hale High School;
Launching a palmy pre-K-12 virtual schoolhouse that served 4,000 students crossed the 2020-2021 schoolhouse twelvemonth and became a standalone schoolhouse this year; and
Securing enactment for $415 cardinal successful enslaved programs and projects with a 73% support complaint from Tulsa voters.

As we determination guardant together, we are navigating done teaching and learning experiences that look and consciousness rather antithetic from wherever we were adjacent six months ago. With the challenges that prevarication up for Tulsa Public Schools arsenic we enactment done teaching and learning safely in-person, continuing to enactment our teachers and team, and starting to marque our mode toward a caller consciousness of “normal,” it is much important than ever to person stableness successful our schoolhouse system. Our team, students, and families request and merit Superintendent Gist’s beardown leadership, and we are excited to proceed our enactment with her and the Tulsa Public Schools squad to physique brighter futures and grow entree to accidental for Tulsa children."

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