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Board adopts mClass by Amplify as district reading-difficulty screener
Summary
The Belmont-Redwood Shores School District board voted to adopt mClass by Amplify as its mandated K–2 Reading Difficulty Risk Screener (RDRS), citing teacher usability and Spanish-language validation as key reasons for the selection.
The Belmont-Redwood Shores School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt mClass by Amplify as the district's Reading Difficulty Risk Screener (RDRS) for kindergarten through second grade.
Assistant Superintendent Ching Pei told the board the selection responds to state law (SB 114) requiring a compliant K–2 screener and to teacher feedback that instructional resources must be easy to access. "We are making a recommendation that we adopt mClass by Amplify tonight because of all of the strengths it has and the fact that it addresses our demographic changing our changing demographics and our student needs," Pei said.
The vote follows a multi-month process:…
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