In addition, the student might do an oral report with visual aids. Alpha students meet the same standards and undergo the same testing as other Oregon high school students. At the conferences students typically show any projects they have completed, discuss their plans for the future, and explain what they must do to accomplish those plans. As students working in this field progress, employers and teachers will sign off on the academic and workplace skills enumerated in the document. Next year the metals field will be one of the Certificate of Advanced Mastery areas and students will able to participate in a metals program that articulates with a community college program.
Alpha is structured around the goal of workplace readiness.
Students must clock in and out of school and wear appropriate clothes to school and the job site. When they arrive at the job site they call in to a voice mail that records the time. If students have more than five unexcused absences in a nine-week period they are referred back to their original high school and must wait 90 days before they can return to Alpha. The school has a full-time person in charge of attendance and accountability. Instruction at Alpha is individualized.