Leadership
- Nicolette Dennis, Principal
- Kendra Bramlett, Assistant Principal
- Ann Piper, Assistant Principal
- Cindy Largent, Assistant Principal
Nicolette Dennis, Principal
Nicolette (Nikki) Carrell Dennis holds a BA and MA in English from the University of Idaho, an Educational Specialists Certificate from the University of New Mexico, and is presently working on an Ed.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Ms. Dennis has worked in public education since 1983 as a teacher, activities director, assistant principal, principal and cluster leader.
As a school leader, Ms. Dennis has served as the leader of two elementary schools, one comprehensive high school, one career tech school, and two early college academies. Ms. Dennis vividly recalls the first time she entered her current school, Will Rogers College JH and HS. She said that she could feel the hair on her arms standing straight up because the architecture and school is eerily similar to Pocatello High School, the school she attended. Like her alma mater, Pocatello High, Ms. Dennis believes the “hallow architecture of Rogers is a beautiful testament to the past and a prodigious monument to the future.” She believes that this gorgeous schools, with its amazing history, is an awesome place to receive an education.
Ms. Dennis became a principal because she wanted to make a difference in the lives of teachers and students. She indicated that leaving the classroom was a difficult decision to leave the classroom, because of her love of teaching English; however, she realized that she could positively impact a school community by becoming a principal and therefore decided that this was the best way to make a difference for many people. Ms. Dennis loved being a teacher and being a principal. She note that the only difference between the two is that a teacher changes lives in the classroom and the principal does it in the larger context of a school. She feels fortunate that she feels blessed to be the principal of Will Rogers.
Kendra Bramlett, Assistant Principal
Kendra Bramlett is an assistant principal at Will Rogers College High and Junior High School. She is a product of Tulsa Public Schools and a graduate of Tulsa Community College with an Associate in Arts, Langston University with a Bachelor of Science in Education, and the University of Oklahoma with a Master of Education. She began her career as a teacher with TPS in 2004. She was a founding teacher at KIPP Tulsa College Preparatory in 2005 and in her 7 years at KIPP, was an assistant principal and school leader. In 2012, Kendra decided to leave KIPP and joined the staff at Rogers, her alma mater, as an assistant principal.
Ann Piper, Assistant Principal
Ann Piper grew up in Columbia, Missouri and attended Hickman High (Columbia, MO), Truman State (Kirksville, MO), and The University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) where she earned both masters and doctoral degrees in Educational Administration (1993 and 2013 respectively.)
Ann has taught high school English at Albuquerque’s Rio Grande, West Mesa, and Highland High Schools, years 1979-1993, and she was Activities Director at Highland High 1993-95. For five years, she was assistant principal at Albuquerque’s Jackson Middle School, and following that served a stint for thirteen years as the principal of Jackson. She ended her Albuquerque Public Schools career as principal of Wilson Middle School (years 2013-2016) where she put her collaborative leadership skills to use at the middle school in her own neighborhood where her three children, Beth, Michael and Laura, attended public schools.
Ann’s husband, Blair Kaufman, has also served as an Albuquerque and TPS school principal and assistant principal. Blair was also the longest-serving and proudest member of the New Mexico Central Community College governing board: he served for over 20 years.
Ann is pleased to be a part of Tulsa’s inclusive, vibrant educational community. She was assistant principal at Edison Mid School for three years before joining the team at Rogers. Ann is excited to serve another year as assistant principal at Will Rogers College Junior High.
Cindy Largent, Assistant Principal
Cindy Largent-Williams grew up in Tulsa, Ok and is a Tulsa Public Schools graduate. She attended Northeastern State University where she earned a BA in Secondary English Education. She then returned to the high school from which she graduated, Edison Preparatory School, and taught English for the next ten years. During this time, Cindy earned her MA in Secondary Educational Administration.
Cindy moved to Rogers in 2017 where she has worked as the Middle School Dean for the past three years, and is now the Assistant Principal for grades 8 and 9.
As the mother of three elementary school children, Cindy is a proud Tulsa Public Schools parent alongside her husband who is also a Tulsa Public School employee – TPS ALL IN! She is excited to continue to make a difference in students’ learning by working closely with teachers and the school community and serving her fellow Tulsans as a public school leader.
Nicolette Dennis
Principal
dennini@tulsaschools.org
Kendra Bramlett
Assistant Principal, 10th and 11th Grades
bramlke@tulsaschools.org
Ann Piper
Assistant Principal, 6th and 7th Grade
piperan@tulsaschools.org
Cindy Largent
Assistant Principal, 8th and 9th Grade
largeci@tulsaschools.org