Houston A+ Challenge and Spring Independent School District partner together to bring a professional development workshop series to Middle and High School teachers for the 2015-16 academic year.

Session goals are to deepen teacher pedagogical knowledge, provide opportunities to practice activities, and model instructional strategies to take back to campus.  Teachers will experience powerful strategies to help students throughout the year regarding the following topics: Click on links below for resources from sessions

• 6^th Grade – Building multiplication and division of positive rational numbers; using the associative, commutative and distributive property; Long Division | Multiplication | Number Sense Routines
• 7^th Grade – Using models and strategies to solve real world problems involving percent change;  Activity Change in Price Cards |  Activity Item Cards | Organizer | Personal Financial Literacy Activities.
• 8^th Grade – Understanding the characteristics of proportional and non-proportional linear equations, tables and graphs;
• Algebra I – Determine key features of linear functions in mathematical and real world situations;