Instructional Technology Staff

Yamilette Williams 
Director Of Instructional Technology 

Yamilette Williams serves as the Director of Instructional Technology. She brings an extensive background in teaching, professional development, technology administration and program management. She is always seeking out creative and effective digital resources and strategies the teacher and student population can benefit from. To stay on the pulse of the ever changing technology, she reads trade journals, subscribes to RSS feeds, and attends national conferences. Ms. Williams is a member of the State Oklahoma Technology Association. She makes it a practice to avail herself to school and district administrators to support their efforts of meeting the District mission. Her dream mission statement for the District's is "We will provide quality learning experiences integrating technology for every student, every day, without exception."  

Denise Housley
Instructional Technology Support

Samantha Reid
Instructional Tehcnology Support

Linda Drink
Applications Support
Analysts

Naomi Huynh
 Applications Support Analysts

Denise has been in the Instructional Tech Support position for 8 years.  Prior to that, she taught 4 years at the high school level and 12 years at the post-secondary level.  Denise holds a Master’s Degree in Business Ed from Northwestern State University in Louisiana.

Samantha started with TPS in October '08 and is now starting her second year as in Instructional Technology Specialist. Prior to her current position, She was an Educational Computing Strategist for 4 years, and a 2nd grade teacher for 3 years in Las Vegas. Samantha has a Master's Degree in Technology Integration in Education from UNLV.

Graduate of Langston University with a BA in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting.  Started with Tulsa Public Schools in 2002 as Help Desk Lead Rep.  After several years at the Help Desk transferred over to Instructional Technology department in 2004.

.  Instructional Technology Trainers

 Karen Dotson

K Holland

 Beth Holloway

K graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BS degree in both Secondary Education and in Geography.  She received her Master’s from the University of Oklahoma in Human Relations: Counseling.
She  teaches  7^th grade Geography and is the Social Studies Department Chair at Clinton Middle School where she has taught for the past 12 years.  She utilizes a Promethean Board in her classroom and loves to use technology to engage her students in the world around them.
K also teaches Geography at Tulsa Community College  and has been an adjunct faculty member for fourteen years.  She has also worked in Tulsa’s Sister City of Zelenograd, Russia.

Beth has been teaching for 4 years. She received her B.S. in Social Science Education from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.  She is currently teaching 8^th Grade American History at Whitney Middle School, where she is also the Webmaster and the Site Technology Coordinator. She is pursuing her Master’s Degree from Oklahoma State University and is excited to use technology in her classroom and to teach others how to as well! 

Robin Leach

Mrs. Leach is the Library Media Specialist at Nimitz Middle School. She loves teaching students about using technology and doing research. She tells students that in today’s world, they do not have to worry about getting enough information, but about how to decide if they are getting accurate, timely information. She makes it her job to help students do that in conjunction with their content teachers.
Mrs. Leach became the LMS at Nimitz four years ago. She has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Before that she taught special education students in the regular classroom. She loves to travel and was selected last year as a Fund for Teachers’ Fellow. She traveled to Alaska and has an ongoing blog sharing information with her students.

Chiyaki Thurston is a Middle School Reading teacher and Department Chair for Lewis and Clark Middle School since August 2005. She is a certified English Language Learner (ELL) teacher/testing coordinator and site technology coordinator specializing in professional development of integrating technology in the classroom. She has been an educator, consultant, presenter and administrator in the field of education for over 14 years.