Eric S Doss

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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.