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Alpha Plus Blog: Alpha Plus News, Materials, Partners, and Education Mateirals

Alpha Plus Blog

Our latest press releases, and Oklahoma Education news. Subscribe for our teaching tips and resources for school improvement.

Featured Facilitator: Anita Trojan

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It's Facilitator Friday! Meet Anita Trojan.

"I was a Language Arts teacher and Secondary Counselor for 34 years before joining the Alpha Plus team.

My favorite thing about being a teacher was my students. I am passionate about helping schools achieve academic success."

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Senator Joe Newhouse

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Jan Barrick is CEO of Alpha Plus and has great ideas to help Oklahoma’s curriculum - more to come about her!

Pictured below: Jan Barrick with Senator Joe Newhouse as they discuss ideas for Oklahoma's educational curriculum.

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4th Grade Success with OAS Reading Books!

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We've been pretty busy today getting the 4th grade Success with OAS Reading books ready to ship to a our partner schools! Our CEO, Jan Barrick rolled up her sleeves to help out! Now that's customer service! Are you excited to get yours?

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The Best Help; The Art of Teaching

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Here are some Oklahoma leaders discussing their success using the Alpha Plus Success with OAS material and tools.


Mike Watkins, Principal, Jones Middle School, Jones:
"The key to this transition lies in the art of teaching. Using Success with OAS, we can dissect the standards with Alpha Plus guidance as to how each objective ought to be taught. Our teachers then adjust that to what works for their students. We are not interested in materials not alighed to the OAS. Nor do we want teachers spending time sifting through textbooks written for other states trying to find what works. Alpha Plus is already there."

Brenda Quinn, Prinicpal, Sweetwater Public Schools: Using Success with OAS, we have the standards at our fingertips and examples of problems that are aligned to each objective. It is the best help we could possibly have."

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Achille Earns an "A" on State Report Card

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Bryan County School Gets Top Marks Five Times in a Row

ACHILLE, OKLA., April 17, 2019 – Achille students are making the grade.

When the State Department of Education released the new Oklahoma School Report Cards recently, Achille High School was one of just 23 high schools statewide to score an A on the state’s measure of academic performance for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years.

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We Use Data to Help Schools on the Way to an A!

Teachers and administrators can quickly and easily identify students who need more help learning the Oklahoma Academic Standards.

Alpha Plus pinpoints the SPECIFIC OAS objectives or "gaps" students have from previous years, then helps school teams address each objective throughout the year.

That is why Alpha Plus schools have OUTPERFORMED the state average every year of the A-F Report Cards.