Partners in Education unites businesses, faith-based organizations and the community with schools for the common goal of increasing the quality of education for all students in Tulsa Public Schools while involving the community in the development of its own economic future.
Become a Partner
All schools are interested and excited for new partnerships, but some schools still have no partners. Build a school partnership today!
How to get started:
Learnabout the schools that need partners using the interactive map below.
(Schools currently without a partner are highlighted in green.)
Contact Us. Call or email Hallie Green, who manages this program, for more information or to get answers to your questions. She’d love to help!
Meet the Principal. We’ll help coordinate a meeting with the school principal to finalize the partnership.
Arthur J. Gallalgher Risk Management Services, Inc.
Arvest Bank
Asbury United Methodist Church
Assistance League of Tulsa
AT&T
Audacity Church
Avis
Baker Hughes
Bama
BancFirst
Bank of Oklahoma
Bicycles of Tulsa
Big Brother Big Sisters
Bike Club
Billy Ray’s Barbecue
Blue cross Blue Shield
Bob Hurley Ford & RV
Bodean Seafood
Boston Avenue United Methodist Church
Boy Scouts
Braden Park Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church
Capital One Auto Group
Carbondale Assembly of God
Carbondale Assembly of God Church
Carbondale Church of Christ
Catholic Charities
Central Bank of Oklahoma
CenturyLink
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Charles Page Neighborhood Association
Children’s Dental Health Care
Christ Temple CME Church
Christ United Methodist Church
Church on the Move
CiCi’s Pizza
Circle Cinema
City Church
City Year
Columbus Neighborhood Association
Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma
Community Health Connection
Community in Schools
County Club Garden
Covanta
Covenant Family Church
Cox Communications
Crafton, Tull & Associates, Inc.
Crowell Heights Baptist Church
CX Loyalty
Cubes
Darby Equipment Co.
Day Spring Community Services
Daylight Donuts
DaySpring
DHS Aftercare
Dish Network
Don Thornton Automotive
Doubletree Hotel
Downtown Tulsa
Dream Center
Eastland Baptist Church
Eastside Christian Church
Eastwood Baptist Church
Ed Darby Foundation
Elote
Emerson Automation
Encounter Church
Enterprise
Exit Realty
F & M Bank and Trust Company
Faith Technologies
Farmers Insurance – The Yelle Agency
Fiesta Mart
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church Downtown
First Baptist Church North Tulsa
First Christian Church
First United Methodist Church
Foundations Church
Fox 23
Garnett Road Baptist Church
Gilcrease Homeowners Association
Girl Scounts
Global Gardens
Grace Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Grant Thornton Accounting
Graves McLain
Great Harvest Bread
Growing Together
Hahn Appliance
Harvard Avenue Baptist Church
Harvard Avenue Christian Church
Harvard Avenue Methodist Church
HICORP
Hilti
Holiday Inn Downtown
Holly Frontier
Holsey Chapel CME Church
Horace Man Insurance
Hyatt Regency
Ingredion
In the Spirit Christian Church
Interim Health Care
Jackie Cooper Imports
Jimmy John’s
John Knox Presbyterian Church
John Steele Zink Foundation
John Zink Combustion
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Junior Achievement
Junior League
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kendall Whittier, Inc.
Kingdom Reign Church
Kirkpatrick & Lai Orthodontics
Lextron
Life Church – BA
Life Church – Midtown
Lilyfield
Lincoln Christian
Links, Inc.
Lutheran Church of Our Savior
Mahogany Steakhouse
Marcy Jets, LLC
Mazzio’s Corp.
McDonald’s
Memorial Drive United Methodist Church
McNellie’s
Metro Christian Academy
Metropolitan Environmental Trust
Mexican Bakery of Tulsa, Inc.
Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial
Modern Woodmen of America
Moose Lodge
Morgan Stanley
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
National Association of Women in Construction
Neelsource
New Haven United Methodist Church
New Hope
New Image Custom Homes, LLC
NewChannel 8
Night Light Tulsa
Ocean Dental
Office Depot
Oklahoma National Guard
Oklahoma State University
Omni Air Transport
On the Border
ONEGas
ONEOK, Inc.
Operation Aware
Opportunity Project
Order of the Eastern Star
OSU Center for Health Sciences
OSU – Family Science
OSU – Tulsa
OU-Tulsa
P61 Mission
Papa John’s
Paradise Baptist Church
Park Plaza Churcch of Christ
Parkview Baptist Church
Peoples Bank
Project Elf
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
QPSE
QuikTrip
Raising Cain’s
Reading Partners
Redeemer Covenant Church
Restoration Church
Resurrection Catholic Church
Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
Rib Crib
Rich and Cartmill
Rotary Club of Tulsa
Rt. 66 Main Street
Security Bank
Sedexo
Selser Schaefer Architects
Sheridan Christian Center
Sigma Gamma Row Society
Sims Metal
Skelly Drive Baptist Church
Solvay
South Creekside Neighborhood Association
South Lakewood Baptist Church
Southern Hills Baptist Church
Southern Hills United Methodist Church
Southside Rotary
Southside Sertoma Club of Tulsa
Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
Springdale Baptist Church
St. Dunstan’s Episcopal
St. John’s Episcopal Church
St. Mark’s United Methodist Church
St. Matthew’s United Methodist
STARBASE Oklahoma
Stringer Nursery
T.D. Williamson
Temple Israel
The Child of Divorce
the Church @Downtown
The Odd Fellows
The Persimmon Group
TOUCH, Inc.
Trinity Baptist Church
True Blue Neighbors
Tulsa Bible Church
Tulsa Brookside Lions Club
Tulsa Christian Fellowship
Tulsa City County Health Department
Tulsa Debate League
Tulsa Global Alliance
Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Tulsa Tech
Tulsa Wesleyan Church
Turning Point Church
UBS Financial
Unidos
University of Oklahoma
University of Tulsa
UPS
US Cellular
Verizon
Williams
Will Rogers Community Foundation
Will Rogers Methodist Church
Will Rogers Rotary
WilTel
Woodland Acres
Neighborhood Association
World Travel Service, LLC
Yale Avenue Christian Church
Yankee Distributor
YMCA
Youth At Heart
Youth Care of Oklahoma
YPNG
Ways to Help
For more than 30 years, the program has engaged thousands of volunteers and built strong relationships between more than 500 community organizations and Tulsa-area schools.
VOLUNTEER
DURING SCHOOL HOURS
Reading Partners, Bike Club,
STEM Alliance
Volunteer teacher’s assistant
Test monitors
VOLUNTEER BEFORE OR AFTER SCHOOL
Tutoring and mentoring
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
Before and after school clubs
DONATE IN-KIND ITEMS
Classroom supplies and materials
Attendance incentives
Teacher appreciation gifts and events
DONATE FINANCIALLY
Donate funds to be used by the school, as needed
Partner Highlight
The value of serving as a volunteer with Partners in Education is that you have the opportunity to develop a long-term relationship with a child, making a difference in the child’s life. We know we can impact achievement, but what really counts is the relationship you establish with the child. You can be a force in changing how this child feels about learning.
The partnership between All Souls Unitarian Church and Jackson Elementary began in 1988 and it continues to this day. All Souls provides tutors as reading buddies, math buddies, classroom volunteers, enrichment programs and field trips. All Souls has expanded its partnership to Gilcrease Junior High, Gilcrease Elementary, Hamilton Middle School and McLain Seventh Grade Academy.
You can’t enter the school without seeing one of our volunteers or their work. When the students faces light up when they see you, then you know you are making a difference in someone’s life. Their smiles are a greatreward! -Cathy Carney, Asbury United Methodist Church
Asbury United Methodist Church and its volunteers help support teachers, staff and students at Walt Whitman Elementary. The church supports the school by helping in the classrooms, with class parties, tutoring and mentoring students and with activities such as knitting or art therapy.
ONEOK, Inc. understands that it takes a village to make an impact. Whether it’s spending time with our students, exposing them to different subjects or celebrating our staff, we are grateful to have them as a part of the village. -Tammy Britton, Principal at Burroughs Elementary
ONEOK, Inc. has contributed to Burroughs Elementary continuously through their generous donations and weekly presence in the school building.Programs ONEOK helped sponsor include:
– Fab Lab/STEAM Program: A hands-on project for 6th grade
– Math Mentors: ONEOK, Inc. employees donate time every week to play research-based math games with 4th-graders
– ONEOK Winning Ways Teacher of the Week: A weekly award that recognizes staff members who go above and beyond with a gift card
– Reading Partners: A portion of this project is generously funded through a gift of ONEOK, Inc.
– Holiday Luncheon: An annual event that brings faculty and staff together to share a meal and express gratitude
– Teacher Appreciation Lunches: Each year, ONEOK, Inc. honors and appreciates the Burroughs faculty and staff during Teacher Appreciation Week
We value our teachers and the amazing work they do—developing our next generation of Tulsa leaders!
T.D. Williamson supports local schools with funding, donated items, mentors and volunteers.
Quality education for Oklahoma’s children and youth is the foundation for not only their future quality of life, but that of our State.
Each year the JROTC of Central High School posts the colors of PSO’s annual Veteran’s Day program at their headquarters.
PSO gives a book to each Reading Partners student at Wayman Tisdale Fine Arts Academy during Week of the Young Child each year.
Steering Committee
Xan Black
Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance
Rejeanna Amini
Amini’s Galleria
Deni Blum
Higher Ed Forum
Latina Busby
Tulsa Public Schools
Michael DuPont
Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
Carole Huff Hicks
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
Omare Jimmerson
Strong Tomorrows
Dr. Ebony Johnson
Tulsa Public Schools
Nancy McDonald
All Souls Unitarian Church
Rana McVay
Tulsa Tech
Mercedes Millberry-Fowler
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma
Kathy Panas
SEMGroup
Andrea Stacy
ImpactTulsa
Jessica Smith
ImpactTulsa
Ronna Montgomery
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Gary Percefull
Bike Club
Jessica Risenhoover
Reading Partners
Zack Stoycoff
Healthy Minds Initiative
Kuma Roberts
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Lynn Staggs
Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance
Cherie Stierwalt
Workforce Tulsa
Michelle Thomas
ONEOK
Annie Tomecek
T.D. Williamson
Support the Program
While the real work gets done by individual companies and faith-based organizations in our schools, the backbone of this community also needs support. You can sponsor us or provide a donation at any level.