Pays GER Lab up to $7,000 to train middle school teachers on teaching ratios and percentages
GER Lab, Inc. will lead a series of professional learning sessions for a group of middle school math teachers. The sessions focus on using double number-line diagrams to teach multiplicative comparison, multiplication and division with continuous quantities, and percentages. The work is run through the Academics and Instruction Department. The board is confirming this agreement after its start date.
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- Vendor / partner
- GER Lab, Inc. · Chicago, IL
- Action
- New agreement
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- Classroom & academic programs
- Term
- Sep 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2025
- This vote
- $7,000
- Funding
- S&C Carryover
- Resource / site
0006-909- Vendor no.
009237- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
24-2784· agendaL.-55- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Dec 11, 2024
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2024-2025 by and between the District and GER Lab, Inc., Chicago, IL, for the latter to lead a series of professional learning sessions with a cohort of middle school teachers focusing on: supporting students in solving real-world problems involving multiplicative comparison using double number-line diagrams; extending students' understanding of multiplications and divisions involving continuous quantities using double number-line diagrams; supporting students in solving real-world problems involving percentages using double number-line diagrams, via Academics and Instruction Department, for the period of September 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $7,000.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report