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Help students prove they learned what you taught!

As teachers using the Alpha Plus Model prepare to administer Summative B for their midyear benchmark, we want to remind all that this is a good opportunity to use our simulated state test to teach expected test-taking procedures as well as strategies for determining the best answer to any assessment question.

Download a PDF of our Test-Taking Procedures and Strategies packet that includes student worksheets for reading/ELA and math.  Call Alpha Plus at (405) 842-8408, if you have questions about how to help your students prove they learned what you taught them!

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Made-in-Oklahoma solutions: Do the math

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"Made-in-Oklahoma solutions:  Do the math"

by Edna McDuffie Manning, Ed.D., Mathematics, The University of Houston

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Alpha Plus textbook authors featured on KSWO-TV, Lawton

Two Lawton teachers author textbooks tailored for Oklahoma

LAWTON, OK (KSWO) - Teachers from around Oklahoma have teamed up to author math textbooks that are tailored to the state's standards, and two of the teachers are right here in Lawton.

Donna Cook and Nicole Hall both teach at Eisenhower Middle School. With the help of eight other teachers, they are tailoring the math curriculum for grades Pre-k through eighth, to fit the state's academic standards, and Oklahoma is the first state to do this. Textbooks used now are written to the national academic standards, and teachers are forced to search through the books to find the material that covers our state's standards, but these teachers say once they're done that will become a thing of the past. ...

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New Oklahoma Academic Standards Approved by State Board of Education

New Oklahoma Academic Standards for Math and Reading are here http://sde.ok.gov/sde/newstandards. Required by August 1, 2016, the “annual high-quality statewide student assessments for English Language Arts and Mathematics” must be developed by the 2017-18 school year. 

 

In the meantime, Oklahoma’s PASS-aligned test blueprints will be unchanged “until the new assessments are implemented.” The current Test Item Specifications and Test Blueprints are in your Alpha Plus Teacher Binders and online at http://sde.ok.gov/sde/documents/2013-09-05/blue-prints-plds-item-specs.

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CONGRATULATIONS Carnegie and Flower Mound - new Blue Ribbon Schools!

CONGRATULATIONS to two Alpha Plus Schools -- Carnegie Elementary School in Caddo County and Flower Mound Elementary School in Comanche County -- for being selected as National Blue Ribbon Schools.  These join previous honorees that continue using Alpha Plus tools: Central High (BRS 2012-13) and Bishop (BRS 2010-11).

Both schools qualified for the "Exemplary High Performing Schools" award because they have excelled in state test scores while at least 40% of students are economically disadvantaged. They are among 285 public and 50 private schools that will be honored in ceremonies on Nov. 9-10 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

NewsOK.com story here: Five Oklahoma schools receive National Blue Ribbon distinction

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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.