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We hope you’re embracing spring in your classrooms this month! The season is a time of growth, so we’re eager to keep delivering resources and nuggets of knowledge to help you make the most of your experience with our programs.

Teacher Appreciation Week is just around the corner, and we’re so thankful that you continue to show up every day to shape and inspire the minds of new generations. If you’d like to send a positive note to a colleague or plan a fun activity for your students, download these printable cards to get the creativity and gratitude flowing!

Announcements

Exciting updates are coming!

Did you know there are several new and exciting features that will be released for the upcoming school year? Check out what’s new for mCLASS® customers.


Teacher Appreciation Week: A celebration for all that you do!

To commemorate Teacher Appreciation Week this year, we at Amplify want to show our gratitude for the work that you do. Every day from May 2–6, we’ll be giving away special prizes ranging from Amplify swag to Little Free Libraries to special treats for your school! You can check out the schedule of all the exciting new things to come on our Teacher Appreciation Week page, and enter for any and all of the giveaways that interest you. Winners will be posted on the website daily beginning May 2—and don’t forget to continue the celebration on our Facebook groups!

Calendar

Learn about our Science-of-Reading-aligned assessment for K–6
Event details

April 20 & April 26
Event location

Webinar series

mCLASS® Lectura is a brand new Spanish assessment co-developed by Amplify and the University of Oregon’s Center on Teaching and Learning. Providing a Science-of-Reading–intensive approach to authentic dual language assessment for grades K–6, it works in tandem with mCLASS’s DIBELS® 8th Edition to deliver universal and dyslexia screening in both languages.
 
Celebrating Biliteracy virtual symposium

Celebrating Biliteracy: Realizing a Better Future for Our Spanish Speakers
Event details

Thursday, May 19
Event location

Virtual symposium

We’re hosting a free virtual symposium! Join us to celebrate and honor the unique skills, strengths, and needs multilingual learners bring to the classroom, and learn how to accelerate literacy development for your English language learners.


We are so excited to be joined by esteemed biliteracy experts Dr. Pedro Noguera, Dr. Lillian Durán, Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Dr. Desiree Pallais, and so many others as we work to build a better future for English language learners—we’d love for you to join us!

Spotlight

Courtney Cox

Davidson County Schools, NC

“Mrs. Cox has dived right into mCLASS this year. She has discovered items of usefulness and shared them with her team as well as myself. As an instructional coach, I want to foster the school as a whole. I want all our teachers to be willing to share what they have learned with others. Mrs. Cox resembles this and is always willing to share what she finds with others.”


—Stephanie Jones, Instructional Coach

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Each featured educator will receive a special gift from us.

Advice and answers
Chrystal Wise
Teacher tip

Insight from an Amplify Ambassador

We all love teacher tips! Chrystal Wise is an Amplify Ambassador and curriculum coordinator for grades 1–4. She had the following advice for mCLASS users: “For people in charge of data, you can monitor the fidelity of testing or quickly see who still needs to be tested by using the Progress Monitoring Fidelity report. You can click on the percent of school not complete and it will create a list of students not tested with teachers' names for the entire school or district. This tip saved time because you do not have to go to each teacher's name to check completion.”

Let's connect

Stephanie, a member of our Amplify Reading & mCLASS Facebook group, recently shared a celebratory moment in her classroom on progress from BOY to MOY. As you approach EOY, do you have some great results to share?

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If so, it’s because we have the pleasure of providing you with more than one Amplify program. Each month we’ll share the most important information you need to know based on the program(s) you use.