PreK-12 Education Collaborative
The Tulane Education Collaborative represents the various organizations and initiatives across Tulane University whose work intersects with elementary and secondary schools in our region.
Our Goals
Service
Engage with the PreK-12 community through current research, best practices, resources, and support
Advocacy
Advocate for educational access, opportunity, and achievement across PreK-12 contexts
Collaboration
Collaborate in order to continuously improve our offerings, strengthen one another, and support Tulane in its mission
Our Mission
As a collection of educational programs working within and across Tulane University and the Greater New Orleans education landscape, we are committed to supporting PK12 learning and growth for the betterment of our community through synergy, service, and advocacy.
The Amistad Research Center (ARC) is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.
The mission of the Center is to prepare and inspire Kindergarten through 12th grade students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math fields, as well as equip teachers with innovative skills to teach science, math, and engineering concepts.
Tulane Pre-College offers middle and high school students the opportunity to explore their artistic, intellectual, and professional passions while experiencing college life through both credit and enrichment courses.
The Center supports a University curriculum and research agenda by uniting academics and action, classroom and communities through which students, faculty, and community partners dedicate themselves to the transformation of civic life.
The Cowen Institute’s mission is to advance public education and college and career success in the New Orleans community.
An in-school literacy program connecting volunteers at two New Orleans Public Schools providing one-on-one reading buddies and in-class support to teachers.
The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA) is a research organization dedicated to understanding the post-Katrina school reforms in New Orleans. ERA is housed in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University and supported by funding from Tulane's Murphy Institute.
We specialize in helping students and teachers with the language of the classroom and specialized professions, both in the USA and internationally.
The Latin American Library (LAL) collects, preserves, and provides access to historical and contemporary resources on Latin America, the Caribbean, and diasporic communities. We have dedicated instructional librarians who work with teachers to craft lesson plans utilizing our physical and digital collections: books, manuscripts, images, maps, sound recordings, databases, and more.
The Louisiana Center for College Access (LCCA) provides free college readiness and preparedness services to students and families from Louisiana.
Since the founding of the Middle American Research Institute (M.A.R.I.), it has sponsored nearly a century of ethnographic, historical, linguistic, and archaeological research in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador. Countless scholars have conducted research in these countries with often spectacular results—all of whom were trained by or associated with MARI.
The Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University builds on the Newcomb College legacy of education, social enterprise, and artistic experience. Presenting inspiring exhibitions and programs that engage communities both on and off campus, the Museum fosters the creative exchange of ideas and cross-disciplinary collaborations around innovative art and design.
The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University (NOCGS) is an interdisciplinary, place-based institute that promotes the understanding of New Orleans and the Gulf South region. We support research, teaching, transformative pedagogies, and community engagement that relate the local to the global and planetary.
The Cowen Institute fosters collaboration and leads professional development for high school counselors, practitioners, and youth-serving organizations to increase college and career access, persistence, and success for New Orleans youth.
Our mission is to support teachers of social studies around New Orleans.
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies promotes the study of all subject matter relating to Latin America at the K-12, community and university levels.
Tulane Pre-College offers middle and high school students the opportunity to explore their artistic, intellectual, and professional passions while experiencing college life.
A Studio in the Woods fosters creative responses to the challenges of our time by providing retreat to artists, scholars, and the public in our protected forest on the Mississippi River. Each summer, we host Kids in the Woods day camp for youth 7-11 years old.
At the Tulane School of Professional Advancement (Tulane SoPA), we equip prospective teachers and education leaders with the necessary knowledge, skills, and expertise to uplift and inspire new generations of learners — whether in a traditional classroom or beyond. Our PreK-12 Education program combines hands-on coursework and focused field experience to ensure new teachers entering the classroom are prepared to make an immediate impact, while experienced teachers are prepared to lead and mentor others.
Tulane University’s Upward Bound, a college-readiness and completion program at the Cowen Institute, provides college-readiness support to 112 first-generation students from low-income backgrounds in New Orleans each year.
