Eric S Doss
Educator - Leader - Learner
Eric Doss is currently the Director of Quality Charter Services for Oklahoma Public School Resource Center (OPSRC). He works with charter schools across the state of Oklahoma to develop and expand while supporting authorizers as well.
After an award-winning career as a band director and music teacher in both Texas and Oklahoma, Eric took over the leadership of Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences (TSAS) in 2010. During this time, he negotiated a move from the school's home in an office building to an historic district owned building then coordinated the recovery from the fire that destroyed that building and the move to the current location. In 2015 TSAS was named a National Blue Ribbon School and in 2016, moved to its final home in the Roosevelt school building expanding to 7-12th grade.
Eric was raised in Tulsa, attending public schools. He received a Bachelor's of Music Education from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and a Master's of Education from the University of Oklahoma. He lives in Tulsa with his wife Rachel and two daughters.
Recently
2023
Created a successful grant application for the 2023 Charter School Program Grant State Entity Competition, bringing a 5 year $55 million grant to the State of Oklahoma for new, expanding, or replicating charter schools.
Worked with the National Center for the Apprenticeship Degree to develop a Registered Apprentice Program for Paraprofessionals finishing degrees and becoming teachers.
Awarded 9 grants of $900,000 to expanding charter schools in Oklahoma from the 2017 CSP grant.
Developed the first of its kind Charter School Talent Pipeline Development Program that helps Intern Teachers become teachers, supports new leaders in schools with academic coaching training, and helps future Superintendents to train for when they are taking over a school.
2022
Developed business plan leading to the OPSRC School Design Center, a new school incubator program that guides and supports communities as they develop innovative autonomous schools within school districts, or as charter schools.
Featured on "Beyond the Bell" discussing transportation innovations in education, discussing the transportation cooperative developed for 5 charter schools in Tulsa.
Started the Tulsa Charter Collaborative, which offers school leaders a structure to work together on areas of shared needs, such as purchasing, professional development, and recruitment of high-quality teachers.
2021
Coordinated the development of the Oklahoma Model Charter School Performance Framework to support new and existing charter school authorizers, working with representatives from local authorizers and the National Charter School Institute.
Implemented OPSRC's Learning Management System Learn@OPSRC using LearnUpon, this LMS now hosts over 17,000 accounts and grants over 125,000 certificates annually.
Participated in negotiations and bill analysis of SB229 which established the Redbud Fund, dedicating $38.5 million in medical marijuana tax revenues to provide annual grants of $330 per pupil to school districts and to charter schools that receive less than the state average of local property tax revenues.
2020
Developed multiple courses for administrators in Oklahoma struggling with the pandemic response, including "How to run a virtual board meeting on Zoom."
April: 2020 Grants Issued and Administered subgrant competition and awarded 2 subgrantees for Oklahoma Charter School Program Grants of $900,000 for Planning and Implementation year costs.
2019
October: Applied for and received an additional $8.1 Million for the Federal Charter School Program Grant to support new and expanding charter schools.
September: Quoted in the Tulsa World Article Tulsa charter schools face growing pains as they expand to more grades as part of a discussion of the need for facility funding for charter schools in Oklahoma.
September: Selected to speak at the The OU Center for Studies in Democracy and Culture Forum on charter schools addressing common misconceptions about charter schools.
2018
November: Tulsa World Quoted in Tulsa World Article TPS-sponsored charter schools seek to add more grades as part of the addition of new grades to three charter schools in Tulsa.
September: Selected to speak at a screening of Backpack Full of Cash as a counterargument the movie and to speak for charter school leaders in Oklahoma.
2017
October: OPSRC received a $16.5 Million Federal Charter School Program Grant to support new charter schools in Oklahoma, the first non-state entity to receive the grant.
July: Became the Director, Quality Charter Schools at Oklahoma Public School Resource Center
February: Interviewed and quoted in Tulsa Voice feature about the state of education in Tulsa: "Performance Anxiety"
2016
March: Quoted in Tulsa World article about Oklahoma budget cuts: "Area schools slashing school days, expenses to balance budget amid second state cut."
January: Wrote article for the Tulsa World in honor of National School Choice Week. "School Choice Week: Allowing families to choose the school that's right for them."
January: Quoted in Tulsa Kids Magazine article "A Blue Ribbon School in Tulsa."
2015
October: TSAS named a National Blue Ribbon School by the US Department of Education, Tulsa World Article.
June: Negotiated remodel and move to new building with Tulsa Public Schools an expansion to 7th grade.
April: Quoted in a Tulsa World article about schools in Oklahoma struggling to find test monitors for state testing
2014
December: Quoted in the Tulsa World article about Tulsa Public Schools choosing to not allow expansion of our school to 6th grade.
October: Spoke at Oklahoma State Representative Ann Coody's interim study hearing on Charter Schools along with other charter leaders and researchers. Audio of that can be found at the House of Representatives site, my comments begin around 3 hours and 10 minutes in.
February: Spoke to the Tulsa Downtown Rotary Club about the Charter School movement nationally, and in Tulsa. Here are my rough notes.
January: Negotiated and signed a second Charter School Compact with Tulsa Public Schools that resulted in TPS receiving a grant from the Gates Foundation.
