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title: The mCLASS® newsletter | February 2021
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Happy Black History Month! What are you doing to celebrate with your students?

| February 2021  \|  View as webpage The month of February is dedicated to celebrating Black History Month! As you discuss this important month with your students, we want to highlight a new downloadable activity that we encourage you to incorporate into your classroom.  “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman  As part of the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 21, 2021, poet Amanda Gorman read “The Hill We Climb,” the poem she composed for the occasion. Amplify and Poetry in America are proud to announce a new set of lessons teaching this amazing poem. Once your students have completed the illustrated frame, post images to social media and tag us @Amplify.   Download the student lesson and teacher materials, poster, and Zoom background.  Try Amplify Reading free Access Amplify Reading free through the end of the year. This K–5 digital literacy program helps reduce the stress of teaching during this pandemic, re-engages students with captivating SEL-based learning, and provides families at home with insights into the most critical area of their child’s education—early reading. Looking to learn more? Register for a webinar.   Apply for a free trial. Spotlight Relia Barker, Response to Intervention Specialist, Aldine ISD, TX   “Mrs. Barker has played a major role in explaining and helping me get mCLASS interventions started at my school. She always has a door, or Google Meet window, open to offer advice or help as the need arises. She has demonstrated how to group students as well as schedule students virtually.  She helped not only me by walking me through the process, but others as well. She has truly been an amazing asset to our district because of her ability to explain the mCLASS process.” — Shawn Santiago-Dixon, RtI      Each featured educator will receive a special gift from us.  Calendar just for Amplify customers An exclusive evening with Afrika Afeni Mills March 3, 2021 6–7:30 p.m. ET Free  virtual event Register now to join Afrika Afeni Mills—Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with BetterLesson—as she discusses reimagining learning in a post-COVID world. Holding space for recovery, reflection, and dreaming What do we mean when we say learning loss? How can we acknowledge COVID-related losses and honor student learning experiences? How do we make sure to ground our work in relevant instructional practices as we move forward?   By registering for this VIP event, you will receive a complimentary registration for the Built for These Times: Making the Shift to the Science of Reading symposium on the following day.    Webinar Impact of Unfinished Instruction Amplify’s comprehensive review of beginning-of-year data from DIBELS® reveals significant instructional loss due to COVID-19 disruptions. Read the study. February 25, 4 p.m. ET   During this webinar, we will examine and analyze comprehensive learning data collected by mCLASS® with DIBELS from schools around the country. In a year of lost instruction fueled by COVID-19, it’s important to know where the gaps are.   Advice and answers Did you know we have a help website to share information with you about new and updated features? Visit the website and search for help articles.    We are committed to reliability and communicating clearly and transparently with you when there are issues that affect your experience. Historical uptime for mCLASS during the month of January was 99.69%. Click here for more information on uptime and how to stay informed.  Customer insights We want to hear from you! Answer the questions below and we’ll share the results with you next month.   What will you continue doing in post-pandemic teaching and learning? Incorporating more technology Better prioritizing Tier 1 instruction Mental health support Centralizing information into one place Consistent communication with caregivers Other WE ASKED AND YOU RESPONDED: What are your goals for 2021?     70.6% • Finding creative ways to keep my students engaged     49% • Adapting the curriculum for remote and hybrid scenarios     41.2% • Learning how to incorporate useful tools/features into everyday teaching     15.7% • Connecting with other educators #YourStudentSaidWhat We want to hear from you! Have your students said something funny, cute, or heartwarming in your remote, in-person, or hybrid classrooms?    Click here to tell us something they’ve said!            Update email preferences  \|  Unsubscribe Amplify Education, Inc., 55 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
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