Ms. De La Rosa, as a member of Houston ISD's Professional Learning Opportunity Team, creates training modules for New Teacher Saturdays. Together with her partner, Mrs. Barbee from East Early College, she shared her module "Managing Technology in the 21st Century Classroom" and co-presented Mrs. Barbee's Module, "Checks for Student Understanding and Responds to Student Misunderstanding" to almost 30 new teachers and associate teachers.  In her sessions, new teachers were excited to learn strategies on how to incorporate technology as a tool, the 21st century book, paper and pencil, and in her other session, they find innovative ways to check for understanding within the classroom setting. 

Dr. Valencia Hall presented her session "Help Please! Strategies for Creating an Interactive Classroom" with her sister Ms. Amanda Dutton at the Region IV 8th Annual Science Conference.   The session was about helping educators with classroom management, interactive lesson planning, and student ownership of work. They were able to inform educators on how to utilize some of the latest websites and apps that are commonly used in a 1-to-1 classroom which can also be used in a traditional classroom setting. Their focus for the workshop was to also provide a way to aid special education, at-risk, and ELL students in the classroom. Some of the apps taught were ClassDojo, Plickers, CamScanner, and EduCreations.

To purchase the MANDATORY uniform shirt, send payment with your child or visit the PTO website listed above.  You can select your color, size, and complete your payment online.  Pick up items from the cafeteria.  Energy polo shirts must be worn on all field trips and events that take place off-campus.