FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 6, 2024
Contact: William C. Liedtke III
President
QSP Alpha Plus LLC
(405) 842-8408
Alpha Plus Model Teachers Honored for Their Success with OAS This School Year
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Alpha Plus team crunched the data, verified qualifications with local principals, and now names the 2023-24 Alpha Plus Model Teachers. These 120 classroom educators are being honored for meeting the three primary goals of the Alpha Plus Model of School Improvement this school year.
(You can download the files by district and by last name.)
The year-round professional development model’s goals for Grades 3-8 reading and math classes by mid-April are:
- Teach lessons aligned to priority objectives in the Oklahoma Academic Standards (OAS) and assess students on each OAS-aligned formative quiz offered for the class’s grade and subject area.
- Remediate and reassess students throughout the year to grow a 70-percent Running Proficiency Rate in the class.
- Achieve 50 percent or more students proficient on the spring summative benchmark, which is a simulated state test
More teachers are reaching these goals every year. Using the same criteria to identify Alpha Plus Model Teachers in 2022-23, just 75 teachers were honored, and only 48 teachers qualified in 2021-22. According to the data, Model Teachers comprise just 8.5 percent of the 1,411 teachers using Alpha Plus Online assessments. These superior educators represent 60 schools in 50 districts statewide.
“Alpha Plus sets high goals for teachers and students, and Alpha Plus Model Teachers are the best of the best according to our data for this school year,” said the Oklahoma-City company’s Executive Vice President Bennie Newton. “We help all members of a school’s team monitor student, class, and school progress toward learning the subject matter required by the state. These teachers achieved the best results in both instructional pace and student success this spring.”
Alpha Plus delivers a program of data-driven student and school academic improvement through professional development for teachers and instructional leaders, coupled with Success with OAS textbooks and interim assessments aligned to the OAS. These have produced significant increases in student and school test scores as well as proficiency rates for hundreds of public schools over the last two decades.
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ABOUT ALPHA PLUS: Data-driven teacher training from Alpha Plus Educational Systems developed over the last 30 years to help schools across Oklahoma improve student success in both mathematics and English Language Arts. Today, the team serves 180 schools in 119 districts with 1,900 teachers and administrators using Alpha Plus Online to monitor the progress of more than 25,000 students. Alpha Plus Partner schools on average have consistently outperformed state averages of math and reading proficiency rates. Success with OAS textbooks and assessments in Math for grades K through 8 and in English Language Arts for grades 2 through
8, are all written “by Oklahoma teachers for Oklahoma teachers” and adhere to the Oklahoma Academic Standards, which are considered among the most rigorous standards in the nation.
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