I am Lori France I'm the humanities
instructional support specialist for Bay
City Public Schools well I first saw
Amir when I went to the summit for hmh
in Denver a few years back and I thought
this is what we need we knew that the
process we were using the traditional Dr
was taking up a lot of teachers times
there was a lot of Subs that had to come
in so instructional time was lost and
looking at a mirror it looked like it
had all those components that could do
the assessment provide support and not
take away that instructional time from
the teachers so I brought it back and we
were just in the process of exploring it
the pandemic hit and we decided now is a
good time to start with a mirror I saw
the benefit in it just before the
pandemic it was like the May before that
I had seen it and so we were just
talking through it when would be a good
time when would we introduce this and
then when the pandemic hit we realized
we needed something for at home with the
students
and Amir fit that Amir is a very
powerful tool for students and for
teachers the reports are outstanding and
very easy to read very easy to navigate
being able to run those reports being
able to do progress monitoring being
able to go back and listen to their
students reading when they can't sit
with them they still do their small
groups they're still interacting with
all of their children it's never a
replacement but it's like having another
teacher in the room and then they can go
and listen to what their students read
the support that Amira provides is so
powerful support for Amira is an email
away I send an email and I get a
response very quickly which then in turn
gets a response and support for the
teacher very quickly and that's what we
need and for students it's being able to
log on at home it's being able to log on
during the school day it's helping them
to grow and getting that individualized
attention that the teacher can't always
give them when you have a classroom full
of students
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