Parent Resource Center

Rev. M.C. Potter, Chair
Rev. Andrea Chambers, Assist Chair
Rev. Jennettie Marshall, Tulsa Public Schools Board Member 
Karen Pittman, Facilitator 

Welcome to the Parent Resource Center. My name is Marla Mayberry, and I am the manager of the parent resource center at Tulsa Public Schools. I am grateful to serve the community to bring additional resources to support parents to ensure their children’s academic success. 

I have more than 20 years of progressively responsible experience leading nonprofit and higher education development teams. I have led organizations through start-up, survival, turnaround, and growth modes.

In previous positions, I have served as the chief operating officer at Sweet Adelines International, where I managed the day-to-day operations. As the assistant vice president of advancement at Langston University-Tulsa, I supervised the Tulsa campus and community and civic partnerships. 

In Arkansas, I served as the director of corporate and foundation relations at the University of Arkansas and vice-chancellor of institutional advancement at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. 

I spent five years as a chief executive officer within the nonprofit sector, 11 years as an executive director, and five years as regional director and director of corporate and foundation relations in three organizations. My understanding of both distribution channels encompasses major fundraising, community advocacy and involvement, strategic planning, process improvement, financial management, leadership, and government.

As multidimensional as life can be, my leadership extends beyond the workplace. I am a member of Antioch Baptist Church, where I serve as the pastor. I also serve as a board of trustee member and audit chair of Phillips Theological Seminary, Links, Inc. and a Delta Sigma Theta Sorority member.

I hold a master of human relations degree with an emphasis in organizational development from the University of Oklahoma and a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Langston University.

My husband (Lee) and I are products of Tulsa Public Schools. We are the parents of five daughters and two grandsons and one granddaughter.

I am looking forward to serving you.

In the fall of 2018, Tulsa Public Schools began a historic effort to improve teaching and learning experiences for students and families through radical collaboration with the communities we serve. Superintendent Gist, Board member Jennettie Marshall, and the Tulsa Board of Education formed the North Tulsa Community Education Task Force lead by the Reverend M.C. Potter and Reverend Andrea Chambers to take on the urgent work of reviewing the design of the McLain feeder pattern and developing recommendations to improve the experiences of students in those schools.

Over the fall semester, the members of the North Tulsa Community Education Task Force worked intensively to engage with each other and with community members to develop a set of recommendations for how to best serve students in North Tulsa in the 2019-2020 school year and beyond. In January 2019, the Task Force presented a set of recommendations for how to best serve students in McLain feeder pattern schools, which included the expansion of Monroe Demonstration Academy to serve all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in the feeder pattern.

Through this extensive collaboration, we have an opportunity to begin to create stronger academic and extra-curricular programming for our students while reducing the number of transitions that they have throughout their time in school. The most powerful thing that can happen in a school is when people rally behind it and believe that its students and teachers can achieve the extraordinary. With a unified middle school experience in the McLain feeder pattern, all students will have access to specialized programs that create exceptional learning experiences.

The expanded Monroe Demonstration Academy – along with more than 100 community volunteers – welcomed 827 students to the new school year in August 2019. 45 volunteers made 714 calls to Monroe parents and families during a week of phone banking. 50 volunteers engaged 193 parents and families during Monroe community canvassing days

The new McLain feeder pattern designed by the work of the North Tulsa Community Education Task Force, now filters 7 elementary schools into Monroe Demonstration Academy then on the McLain High School. Those schools include; Anderson Elementary, Celia Clinton Elementary, Hawthorne Elementary, John Hope Franklin Elementary, Springdale Elementary, Unity Learning Academy, and Walt Whitman Elementary schools.

Original NORTH TULSA COMMUNITY EDUCATION TASK FORCE

Rev. M.C. Potter, Chair
Rev. Andrea Chambers, Vice Chair
Rev. Jennettie Marshall, Tulsa Public Schools Board Member  
Karen Pittman, Facilitator 

Richie Anderson                      Sean Jarrett
Toneille Bent                            Diahanne McClellan
Marcia Bruno-Todd                  Nancy McDonald 
Clarence Boyd                         Jane Malone
Cindy Driver                             Tim Newton
Lindsay Goldfarb                      Jolly Meadows
Larry Harris                               Dale Mingo