CECR Program Partners:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the high-achievement model grant program in May 2000 to help schools and school districts accelerate their ongoing efforts to help all students achieve. Grants support improved teaching and learning, increased access to technology, and stronger home and community partnerships. The program works both with existing models, as well as with promising new schools.
CCOSA promotes quality administrative leadership for Oklahoma schools through professional development, legislation and member services. CCOSA provides opportunities for continuous study of mutual professional problems facing school administrators and increases members aware of educational issues. Through professional meeting and forums, CCOSA establishes close and continuous communication and cooperation in matters of mutual concern to all school administrators.
The OETT supports the focus of the OK-ACTS Partnership on student success through technology integration and collaborative networking. The support from the Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust provides laptop computers to the partner schools, which will allow their administrators to network and facilitate the systemic ‘whole school’ change needed to fully integrate technology in classrooms.
The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education is located in the north-central Oklahoma town of Stillwater. The department provides leadership, resources, and assures standards of excellence for a comprehensive statewide system of career and technology education. That system offers programs and services in 29 technology center districts operating on 54 campuses, 400 comprehensive school districts, 25 skill centers and three juvenile facilities.
The mission of the Oklahoma State Department of Education is to improve student success through: service to schools, parents and students; leadership for education reform; and regulation/deregulation of state and federal laws to provide accountability while removing any barriers to student success.
The mission of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association shall be to safeguard public education; to represent the local board of education at the state and national levels; to assist local boards in developing leadership skills; and to offer support services and resources to local boards of education to improve public education.
The Oklahoma Education Association promotes the cause of quality public education, advocates equal educational opportunities and human and civil rights for all, advances the profession and expands the individual and collective rights and further the interest of educational employees in Oklahoma.
OU’s College of Education enrolls about 1400 undergraduate and graduate majors whose interest range across the spectrum of the education professions. Through it many partnerships the College collaborates with public schools and community services to provide pre-service and in-service learning opportunities for educators and other service professionals.
Oklahoma Technology Administrators (OTA) provides leadership, legislative voice, professional development and support for the integration of technology into teaching and learning in Oklahoma.