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

DID YOU KNOW: Oklahoma's Unusual State Symbol

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DID YOU KNOW?
By Jan Barrick, CEO, Alpha Plus.
Featuring a passage about Oklahoma history from the
Success with OAS series.

DID YOU KNOW?

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ALPHA PLUS HEROES: ROFF MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Today we honor Ms. Isaacs, a math department teacher for Grades 6-8 at Roff Middle School. She is evaluating her Pacing Calendar and interim assessment data to determine if adjustments are needed. Using this curriculum map, she has taught and remediated ALL OAS objectives for her math classes, and all have proficiency rates above 84%; in 7th-grade math, 97% of students are proficient on the CFAs. Roff’s Johnna Isaacs is an Alpha Plus Hero!

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ALPHA PLUS HEROES: PAOLI

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Ms. Rice, sixth grade teacher at Paoli Public Schools, makes good use of her Success with OAS Math 6 book and materials including Alpha Plus Online. By using this comprehensive system, she helps her students be prepared for success. With an 83% Running Proficiency Rate on formative quizzes of OAS Objectives in both math and reading (so far this year), Paoli’s Joni Rice is an Alpha Plus Hero!

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ALPHA PLUS HEROES: CHEROKEE ELEMENTARY IN MUSKOGEE

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Today we honor Kimberly Davison; she teaches 2nd grade at Cherokee Elementary in Muskogee.  To ensure her students do well in math, she uses Success with OAS Math 2, which helps prepare students to master the Oklahoma Academic Standards. We love your smile, Ms. Davison!

Learn more: https://alphaplus.org/data-driven_school_improvement/books/alpha-plus-math-book-sample-pages

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Alpha Plus Welcomes Senator Newhouse

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Our CEO, Jan Barrick, welcomes Senator Joe Newhouse to Alpha Plus on Friday as the two continue their focus on how to make Oklahoma a top ten state.

Sen. Newhouse and Jan discussed improving training, compensation, and respect for Oklahoma teachers as keys to improving student success.

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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.