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Welcome to Amplify Texas Tutoring!

Amplify presents this support website, where tutors, teachers, school leaders, district leaders and Education Service Centers (ESCs) can find information about initial and ongoing training and support structures for tutoring programs during the 2024–25 school year.

Amplify Tutoring is a proven, research-backed, high-impact tutoring solution that helps K–6 students become confident, proficient readers. Our high-quality tutoring materials include Amplify’s research-backed mCLASS® Intervention program and gold-standard assessment, mCLASS Texas. With Amplify Tutoring, students are more likely to make outsized gains and narrow skills gaps compared to national norms and peers not in Amplify Tutoring.

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Begin exploring helpful resources and professional learning opportunities!

Program timeline

There are three phased of the Amplify Tutoring program. Below are the kiey milestones and estimated timing for your tutoring journey. Each phase may vary slightly based on the unique context of your district and the program’s goals.

Launch

Getting started

(Month 1)

Implement

Track learning impacts

(Months 2-3)

Strengthen

Ensure program engagement

(Month 3 and beyond)

Launch

How to prepare for your program launch

Let’s launch into your program! We’re delighted that you chose Amplify Texas Tutoring and we look forward to working closely together to benefit educators and students.

Become familiar with mCLASS Intervention

Amplify Tutoring seamlessly extends teachers’ reach by leveraging the tools and resources currently available to Texas teachers. Tutors will use Amplify’s research-backed mCLASS Intervention to deliver reading intervention to students most in need of support. mCLASS Intervention will group students of similar skill levels and provide tailored lesson sequences using data from mCLASS Texas Edition, the gold standard literacy system designed for Texas, which will be available for all K-5 students in Amplify Tutoring. 

Watch this brief video (10:34) to learn more about mCLASS Intervention. 

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Enrolling students and tutors

Work with your Amplify Technical Onboarding Specialist to ensure all students and teachers/tutors are enrolled in mCLASS. Ensure teachers/tutors are associated with the correct classes or groups. If you need assistance with enrollment, please contact Amplify Customer Care and Support at 1-800-823-1969 (Mon–Fri, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. ET) or email help@amplify.com. 

Access the asynchronous training course

The Amplify Tutoring Asynchronous Training course provides an interactive learning experience for tutors to learn about and practice using mCLASS® and mCLASS Intervention platforms. The first time you access the course, you will be prompted to create an account using your email address. This will ensure that your progress is saved and your completion of each module is documented.

  • Review the asynchronous course options below, and select the path that best aligns with your training needs. Be sure to bookmark the course to easily access content for review.
    • Option 1: Amplify Tutoring program course
      • This course is best suited for tutors/teachers with educational experience. 
    • Option 2: Amplify Tutoring program and best practices course
      • This course is designed for tutors/teachers with limited educational experience. This course provides the same program overview in the initial course, and additionally provides modules addressing Early Literacy Basics and Engaging All Students in Learning.  
  • Note: You will need to access your mCLASS account during these modules. If you do not have your login credentials, please reach out to your program lead.

Quick links to resources

  • Review the instructions to delete mCLASS Intervention groups, when you need to remove inactive groups.

  • Digital cards are available digitally for activities using letter, word, picture, vocab and fluency cards. You will find alternatives here for games that require printing cards.

  • The Intervention hub is a landing page for mCLASS Intervention assessment and lesson materials, modules for leaders & tutors on using the platform, grouping and scheduling, along with guidance on best practices with getting started, delivering lessons and progress monitoring. 

  • mCLASS assessment overview is a reference document for mCLASS DIBELS 8 and Intervention assessment measures by grade and administration time.

  • The mCLASS Intervention TEKS alignment guide shows the connection between mCLASS Intervention and TEKS specific standards within each of the strands grades K-6.

Implement

Let’s implement Amplify Tutoring

This phase is the heart of the program, where the vision and planning come to life through engaging tutoring sessions! Students are making academic growth, gains, and truly accelerating their learning.

Get your tutoring program started in three steps:
  1. Teachers/tutors ensure students have been assessed in mCLASS.
  2. Program leads login to mCLASS Intervention to generate mCLASS Intervention student groups. If using Clever or ClassLink, please login through your SSO.
  3. Teachers/tutors generate and deliver mCLASS Intervention lessons to students.

Learn more about mCLASS Intervention lessons here.

Data

Monthly usage reports and supports

Monthly usage reports are provided to Texas Tutoring districts to provide current status and resources to expand use. Reports are typically sent the second week of each month.

Questions? Contact Allison Pilley (apilley@amplify.com) 

Impact in Texas

After one semester of participating in Amplify Tutoring, 50% of students who started the Spring semester at Well Below Benchmark made above average growth or better when they received 5 or more Amplify Tutoring lesson sets. When students did not receive Amplify Tutoring lesson sets, only 38% of students who started at MOY Well Below Benchmark made the same above average growth.

Explore this section to find resources to guide you to better understand your data while using mCLASS and mCLASS Intervention.

Resources:

mCLASS Assessment Overview is a reference document for mCLASS DIBELS 8 and Intervention assessment measures by grade and administration time.

Administering and Scoring DIBELS Measures introduces progress monitoring and scoring guides for mCLASS DIBELS 8 and mCLASS Intervention measures.

For proper placement in mCLASS Intervention, reference the Administer the mCLASS Intervention Measures to learn more about additional assessments that are often required for students in grades 2-5.

The mCLASS Program Guide covers the mCLASS Literacy suite’s key components.

The Texas mCLASS Intervention Guide provides an overview of mCLASS Intervention, research on program implementation, and a detailed section on intervention reports.

Learn where to access the DIBELS 8 and Intervention Measure assessment materials.

mCLASS Reporting Guide provides an overview of all the reporting features available to educators in the mCLASS Literacy suite.

Learn how to read the provided Amplify Tutoring monthly usage reports using this how to guide.

The mCLASS Intervention Implementation Steps document provides a step by step guide on implementing mCLASS Intervention and generating usage in the program.

Learn how to access mCLASS Intervention usage data within the platform on a frequent basis using the Lesson set progression instructions.

Follow the steps in Setting up groups in mCLASS Intervention instructions after benchmarking students.

Continuous support

Amplify Texas Tutoring supports

To ensure the highest quality instructional implementation, Amplify’s professional development is designed to support all tutors in becoming well-trained and effective tutors who support small groups of students in order to (a) build early literacy skills, (b) build strong relationships, and (c) build students’ confidence in reading.

You may have already completed Amplify Tutoring’s self-paced, asynchronous tutor training course. It is recommended that this course be completed by Tutors before the tutoring program has launched. 

Additional learning

View the Live sessions and Recordings tabs for additional learning opportunities and implementation supports such as:

  • Office hours
  • Live sessions
  • Session recordings
Strengthen

Register to join live training sessions

Amplify supports Texas Tutoring customers from the beginning of your implementation and beyond.

Register now for live sessions! View the upcoming schedule of sessions below where Amplify team members provide live support to get started with mCLASS Intervention implementation, or expand your usage.

Office hours

Throughout the school year, ongoing office hours are available to tutors and school/district leaders throughout the first two months of each semester to answer any questions.

Office Hours – Spring Semester

Register now for the session that best fits your schedule:

Check back soon!

Strengthening sessions

Join the Amplify team during these one hour, monthly sessions to dive deeper into timely topics related to implementing mCLASS Intervention. These sessions will be recorded and posted on the recordings tab within 48 hours of the session date.

Strengthening Sessions – Fall Semester

Register now for the session that best fits your schedule:

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Strengthening Sessions – Spring Semester

Register now for the session that best fits your schedule:

Recordings

View recorded sessions

Amplify supports Texas Tutoring customers from the beginning of your implementation and beyond. Check out the list below to register for live sessions or review recordings.

Review previously offered webinars and learning opportunities to support your mCLASS Intervention implementation. 

SY2024-25 Strengthening session recordings

View the Administering and Analyzing the EOY Benchmark session recording from Apr. 2025.

View the Maximizing the Components of a mCLASS Intervention Lesson Set session recording from Mar. 4, 2025.

View the Progress Monitoring Best Practices session recording from Feb. 19, 2025.

View the Gearing up for Second Semester session recording from Jan. 21, 2025.

View the Administering and Analyzing the MOY Benchmarks session recording and participant notebook from Dec. 12, 2024.

View the Maximizing the Components of an mCLASS Intervention Lesson Set session recording from Nov. 12, 2024.

View the Progress Monitoring Best Practices session recording from Oct. 17, 2024.

View the Getting Started with mCLASS Intervention session recording from Sept. 17, 2024.

SY23-24 Getting started with mCLASS Intervention webinar recordings

View the January 25 recording of this session.

SY23-24 Strengthening session recordings
About Amplify Tutoring

Amplify Tutoring provides ESSER aligned, high-impact tutoring programs to complement the efforts of K–6 students, educators, and families in building reading proficiency and confidence.

Anchored in mCLASS TX Edition and mCLASSⓇ Intervention, these tutoring materials complement the Amplify materials that educators currently use and trust through the Texas Home Learning (THL) initiative to instruct hundreds of thousands of students across the state of Texas. Amplify Tutoring provides classroom teachers and tutors access to the same student data, including visibility into all tutoring lessons.

Learn more about mCLASS

Tutors are able to use the mCLASSⓇ Intervention curricula to seamlessly support either in-person or remote tutoring. All materials are adaptive and data-driven, based on initial data collected by teachers or tutors in mCLASS TX Edition and progress monitoring administered by tutors to individualize student supports. Amplify’s tutoring program provides Texas tutors with complimentary, high-quality, comprehensive professional development. Tutors are trained in pedagogical best practices, engagement strategies to build strong relationships with students, and using Amplify Tutoring materials to support student growth.

Learn more about mCLASS Intervention