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

Alpha Plus and Oklahoma schools join forces for school improvement

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Alpha Plus and Oklahoma schools join forces for school improvement

Alpha Plus schools outperform others every year of state school report cards

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Alpha Plus Model of School Improvement


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About Alpha Plus Education Systems

  • Web-based program developed and used to turn around schools since 1992
  • Real-time data track student proficiency in math and reading
  • Curriculum written by Oklahoma teachers, for Oklahoma teachers, aligned to Oklahoma standards
  • Serving 63 schools across Oklahoma in 2018-2019
    • 10,560 students (K-8)
    • 486 teachers
    • 197 school leaders

Average A-F report card grades for Alpha Plus & Oklahoma schools are 77% and 68% respectively from 2013-2016!

Alpha Plus Tool: Textbooks that teach to Oklahoma standards:

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Point of View: National curriculum ignores Oklahoma academic standards

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Our CEO, Jan Barrick's column in The Oklahoman: "The crux of the matter is simple. We can have the best standards ever written, but if they aren’t being used, nothing changes. When students use textbooks written for Common Core, they are not prepared for the questions that will be asked by the state of Oklahoma in the spring."

Article published Wed., Dec 18, 2019
by Jan Barrick
In The Oklahoman

There’s an old expression that goes like this: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”

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New OAS Standard-Based Report Cards translated to Spanish

Alpha Plus OAS Standard-Based Report Cards now in Spanish!

Oklahoma Educators:  Download FREE Standard-Based Report Card templates

This fall, Oklahoma’s own school-improvement team had its Standard-Based Report Cards translated into Spanish. These went live on Alpha Plus Online October 8, just in time for the end of the first nine weeks.

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20017-2018 Honor Roll

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These schools used the Alpha Plus Model of School Improvement in 2017-18 and received an A or B on the Oklahoma School Report Cards for 2018. Congratulations to the students, educators, administrators and board members of these schools!

Click here to view the Report Cards and Alpha Plus Advisory Board pdf

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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.