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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 Amplify Reading 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!


Quest extension and discussion guides

Are you looking for ways to bring the world of Amplify Reading into your classroom? Our Character and Community-Building Quest Extension Guides provide relevant discussion questions and extension activities that help you lead conversations about Amplify Reading’s engaging storylines. 


Printing login cards

We’re excited to announce that you can now print all of your students’ login credentials on a single page! From the Class Settings page of your Teacher Dashboard, you now have the option to download your students’ login information as a zip file of individual PDFs or print them on a single page.

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

Lexi Steiner

Amplify Ambassador, Dickinson Public Schools, ND

“I love that Amplify is constantly growing and changing! There is always room to learn more and change what we do and how we do it.”

We want to spotlight you next!

Each featured educator will receive a special gift from us.

Advice and answers
Martyna Stelter
Teacher tip

Insight from an Amplify Ambassador

We all love teacher tips! Martyna Stelter is an Amplify Ambassador and grade 3 teacher. She shared the following advice about Amplify Reading: “To stay consistent with using Amplify Reading in my classroom, I carve out a specific amount of time each week to make sure we make the program a priority.”

Let's connect

Looking for a little end-of-the-year encouragement? Let us help! What are you doing to stay motivated and increase program usage at your school? Post in the Amplify Reading & mCLASS Facebook group to tell us what you’re doing and we’ll send you a swag bag just like this one!

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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.