Help students learn to serve.
Download and teach the Oklahoma Standard lesson plans.
Show up to serve.
- Volunteer at the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon.
- Plan a service project for your students.
- Fix and serve meals for those in need.
- Spend the day giving back to your school.
- Volunteer at a local hospital or senior center.
- Donate blood at a local blood bank.
- Help pick up trash at your neighborhood park.
- Be a good neighbor.
- Find an area around your school or a school in need that can be cleaned or painted.
- Read a book on social media for smaller kids to enjoy.
Rise up to honor.
- Visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum with your students and experience firsthand where the Oklahoma Standard came from.
- Experience the stories of those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever.
- Learn the hard-earned lessons that are as relevant now as ever.
- Browse more than one million documents, artifacts & photographs from the events surrounding April 19, 1995.
- Walk the Memorial, a place of quiet reflection, healing and hope.
- Thank a veteran or active military member for their service.
- Thank a public servant for their commitment to making the State better.
Step up to be kind.
- Encourage your students to be kind in all situations, big or small.
- Smile at every person you see today.
- Hold the door open for the person behind you.
- Offer to share your snack with a classmate.
- Donate items to a local charity.
- Send a nice note to a teacher or person in authority thanking them for their work.
Living the Oklahoma Standard
Rise to the occasion.
When we see an opportunity to help, we do our part.
Be the difference.
We can be the variable that positively affects the outcome.
See the moment.
We’re aware of others around us and respond accordingly.