About Us
Hawthorne at a glance
Hawthorne elementary
1105 E. 33 St. N. Tulsa, OK 74106
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Phone: 918-925-1340
Interim Principal: Raye Nero
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We want our students to be a part of a positive environment while they learn, and our building is full of bright colors and smiling faces. Our teachers set high expectations for our students while encouraging individuality and acceptance. Whether it's in the classroom, on the basketball court, or in the community, we are condent that our students are going to succeed and excel.
Strong School culture
Hawthorne's school values are "Peace, Respect, Integrity, Do Our Best, and Everyone's Safe." We are proud of the work that we do to prepare our teachers so that they can promote rigorous learning opportunities in the classroom in order to prepare all students is a priority for us. We work hard on building strong relationships with our students and families. We want students to feel safe in a structured learning environment.
Parent Involvement
Parents are our most important partner in education. Hawthorne hosts monthly community meetings for parents. The Food Bank provides dinner and the Junior League of Tulsa volunteers to serve dinner. We are excited to give parents an opportunity to come together, and to officially welcome them to the Hawthorne family.
Future leaders
Student Council offers fifth grade Hawks the opportunity to actively participate in school wide initiatives, lend their hands to community causes, and see democracy in actions. While representing Hawthorne, our student leaders learn responsibility, develop pride in our school, and build awareness of events at a local, national, and global level.
GARDEN CLUB
Hawthorne has brand new garden beds installed this year to kick off our partnership with Global Gardens to bring the concept of planting, watering, fertilizing and harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables for our students and community. This is our first year of this process but we are excited to see how much we can accomplish this year and prepare for an expansion of our system in the near future.
History
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (1804-1864) life was steeped in the Puritan legacy. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College from 1821 to 1825. There he met and befriended Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne spent some time at the Brook Farm community where he got to know Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Never feeling comfortable living in Salem, Hawthorne was determined to take his family out of the town’s Puritan trappings. They moved to Red House in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he formed a close friendship with Moby Dick author Herman Melville. During the 1852 election, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography for his college friend Franklin Pierce. When Pierce was elected president, he appointed Hawthorne an American Consul to Britain as a reward.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stories include, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832), "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832), "Young Goodman Brown" (1835), and the collection Twice-Told Tales. He is best known for his novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). His use of allegory and symbolism make Hawthorne one of the most studied writers and one of the greatest fiction writers in American literature. A second reason for many for Hawthorne’s greatness is his moral insight. He inherited the Puritan tradition of moral earnestness, and he was deeply concerned with the concepts of original sin and guilt and the claims of law and conscience. His greatest short stories and The Scarlet Letter are marked by a depth of psychological and moral insight seldom equaled by any American writer of his time.
He was a man of deep religious faith like many in the Tulsa community. In addition, he demonstrated great character throughout his life.
Teachers and lovers of literature look up to Hawthorne. He wrote about women’s rights, women’s work, women in relation to men, and social change. He wrote empathetically, sensitively, and even sometimes with disdain about topics that the everyday person could relate to.
The school was opened in 1952 and additions were made in 1955, 1993, and 1998. The Scarlet Letter was first published in 1850, so about the time the school was being built, there was a 100-year anniversary celebration of the book, which could have spurred more interest in the book and author.
References
Biography.com. (2017, January 04). Nathaniel Hawthorne. Retrieved from http://www.biography.com/people/nathaniel-hawthorne-9331923
Encyclopedia Brittanica. (2017, November 15). Nathaniel Hawthorne. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Hawthorne
Klayman, R. (2009, August 23). What Should We Make of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Racism? Retrieved from http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/97175
Oklahoma Census Bureau. (1950). Number of Inhabitants: Oklahoma. Retrieved from www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/37783880v2p36ch2.pdf
The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/literature-and-language-arts/essays/emthe-scarletletterem-and-nathaniel-hawthorne%E2%80%99s-
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"Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circa 1860." Gale Biography in Context, Gale, 2010. Biography In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/PC4295800879/BIC?u=tuls22931&sid=BIC&xid=c0b9e1b9. Accessed 12 July 2018.
Leadership
Interim Principal Raye Nero
I knew teaching was my passion when I was a little girl and would teach my sister everything I knew including how to read. So, when I graduated from Sapulpa High School, it was not a surprise that I would chose education as a career. I attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK where I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. After graduation, I started working for Tulsa Public Schools as an elementary teacher at Greeley, Alcott, and Emerson for a combination of 15 years. During this time, I earned a Master’s Degree from Oklahoma State in Educational Leadership. I later worked as a District New Teacher Mentor Coach for three years and then as Principal Intern at Celia Clinton ES.
In 2008, I became the principal of Greeley ES for three years and then moved to Sequoyah Elementary School where I served as principal before joining Hawthorne Elementary in 2022.
During my tenure I have had the opportunity to touch many lives as an educator and it has been very rewarding for me as a person and educator.
“Like a tree, I stand strong against the winds of destruction that come against our students’ families. I believe that no matter what our students are going through; no matter how many outside influences they must deal with; they can dangle in the freedom of being an educated individual, like branches hanging from a tree, BECAUSE THESE STUDENTS ARE EXTENSIONS OF ME!!! I AM A PRINCIPAL!!!” by Raye L. Nero
Connect with us
Raye Nero
Interim Principal
nerora@tulsaschools.org
Amy Eikenberry
Assistant Principal
eikenam@tulsaschools.org