Aligning Mission and impact
Tulsa Changemakers builds capacity in youth, adults, and systems to support youth in driving positive impact in Tulsa right now and into the future.
Over the past 8 years and across 7 different programs, Tulsa Changemakers has hired, trained, and supported 155 educators to guide 3,098 students at over 75 schools to plan, execute, and measure over 370 community impact projects.
To read more about our impact, see our Annual Reports here.
Youth
1. Youth drive real and measurable impact in their schools and communities.
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2. Youth develop a leadership identity and key leadership mindsets, grow socially and emotionally, cultivate hope, and build professional and civic knowledge and skills.
Adults
1. Adults partner with young people to drive real and measurable impact in their schools and communities.
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2. Adults develop skills in elevating youth voice and leadership, achieving authentic youth-adult partnership, growing young people socially and emotionally, and facilitating project based experiential learning.
Systems
1. Systems create and sustain structures for elevating youth voice and leadership while achieving authentic youth-adult partnership.
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2. Adults leading those systems are equipped with the skills to create and sustain those structures.
Measuring Outcomes
Our Philosophy of Program Quality and Measurement
All our methodologies of measurement are low-stakes, as opposed to high-stakes, because it is important for us to create a community of practice that is defined by openness, trust, and mutual respect. Low-stakes professional learning communities provide opportunities for reflection, support, and growth, as opposed to high-stakes forms of measurement that might focus on evaluation and punishment. We seek to create the future world we want to live in with everything that we do, and we would prefer to live in a world defined by support over evaluation, relationships over bureaucracy, and restoration over retribution.