the D75 seats. Um, we have our treasurer, our secretary, an IP rep, Bronxboro president, um, representative. We have two, um, I will do a family few. I wish I could do a family field
introduction, but it is too many of us to do that. but we are here together and we're just here to give all the information that's needed for all our parents in district 10. So, I'm so happy to greet you. There is inter um
interpretation here um for those who are in person. So, if you need interpretation services, I believe they are in the back, I believe. If not, um, I'm going just go ahead with her
poll. Emma, Angie Dusa, [Music] Izzy, Erica, [Music] Michelle Hayes is absent, but she's
online or excuse me, I correct myself. She's excused. Brenita Parson is present. A [Music] saiasquez [Music]
pres. And Catherine present. So there's three late today. That's okay. I know we all the way up in the woods. We I would say uh we are on top of God's head today. We got
my behind in the back on top of his head. And just moving forward, I want to introduce PS81 principal and any presentations we have today. This is Please clap your hands. Let's make a
warm welcome. [Music] This is far. Good evening. This is good evening. Hey, this is such a welcome such a joy to welcome the CDC board and all the
esteemed members of the board especially in addition to our president, our superintendent, deputy superintendent. This is your first time here, Robert. as part of CC my second visit to school second visit to school
be very welcome and we're very fortunate to have our diversity team parents here who are responsible for really building a rich diverse school here at PS81 Mary and Diane and
um we if you have chance to log on to PS81 school community the FaceTime you have the diversity newsletter there to share with um all of this PS81 community and the
entire district 10 as the wonderful things is happening at PS81 as a result of these two ladies and uh also we have our two former president Renee where is she Renee and Barbara they will speak
with you momentarily but the big Star is [Applause] [Music] five. This was I was in boarding school in I didn't learn how to play. So can I
tell you that I would subject you to play? So we first have an addition. Would you like to share with us from state number two? We are so proud of you and he's in
the accelerated class. It's great. will be graduating this year to middle school. [Music]
wonderful. [Music]
Hello. Hallelujah. [Music] Wolf [Music]
man. [Music]
Hear that? The sister as well. We'll be hearing a lot of time in the future. His dad is here with us. [Applause] very faculty
members teaches guitar in our school after school. So very thank you very much time to come. It is just such a pleasure certainly for me but I think I got
you. Thank you. Um, so I just would like Diana and Mary to come up to speak about our diversity and what we do and how we build [Music] community. I'm a first and third grader
here at PS81 and I am actually graduate PH1 myself. So, I'm not going to tell you how many years ago and I'm also co-chair of the diversity and inclusion committee with Mariana Mary Crawford. I am the
co-chair as Diana mentioned. I have a first grader, although I always say kindergartener because he's my baby and he's always going to be my baby, but he's a first grader. And um it really has been an amazing journey for us to be um you know doing the the the being a
part of diversity inclusion committee. Our you know one of our main projects that we've worked on this far has been our newsletter and our goal with the newsletter is to always reflect the lens of this amazing community at PS81. whether it's showings of different
traditions, cultures, abilities, um reflecting the perfections of families and what is going on in the local community. So, it is something that we are so excited to share as far as also giving our parents a peak and our families a peak into what's going on in
the classroom in regards to diversity and inclusion initiatives and being a liazison in any way that we can to make it easy for families to know all the remaining efforts that have been going on and be. Yes, it's not lost on us that we're very
fortunate to be able to come to Miss Crane's coffee with the principal and to get into the school. And we know that's not a reality for all parents. So, one of our goals with the newsletter is to really create a bridge, give parents the opportunity to see what their children
are doing inside this amazing place and then also give parents a chance and families a chance to see themselves reflected in the newsletter. Uh so we have links to all the upcoming events that our wonderful PA puts together. Uh
we have PE ambassadors as Barry said, but then also events that are going on not only in the school but in the Bronx at large and in the greater community of New York City. Um we want parents and families to feel like they're a part of
something small here but also part of something much greater. And we also include the wonderful work that Mrs. archet work and month and building just wonderful values instilling wonderful values in our
children just a small story. Um the the words of the mom are things like respect and inclusion, equality, empathy and empathy is huge. And there's a tradition here where kindergarteners get to
decorate their own little headbands at Thanksgiving time and then they do a parade through the school and all the big the upper classmen get to cheer them on. It's wonderful tradition. So my girls were telling me about it. I said, "Oh, would you go and cheer on the
turkeys?" And they said, "Yes, except except the quiet turkey." I said, "Who's the quiet turkey?" There was one turkey kindergartener who was very sensitive to sound and so instead of applauding and
cheering everyone to the silence. So and that's what this school is all about is including everyone meeting everyone where they are and just embracing them and teaching our children to do the same thing.
So, we're thankful for the opportunity and thankful to be able to be here and share what we're doing with all of you. Thank you very and um our school and our school community is very special to all of us
and we we really feel that PSA that you know outside maybe people don't know but uh we really represent in so many different nationalities and so many wonderful people and from all around the world. And I always tell our
kindergarten parents when they minister that they should walk into the school being very proud of who they are and know about their history. Know if they're from Puerto Rico, they know that there's so many people from Puerto Rican
so much to the United States and the Dominican Republic and many different countries from South African countries. so important for children to really identify with themselves, know who they are and be proud of who they are and
that is what anyone and we are a community that could be util. We love each other. We step up to the plate when something happens and we all know this was a little girl got very
sick in kindergarten last year. She was dancing in the classroom one day and the next day she was a nice woman and it's hard for me to talk about it but the entire school community stepped up. They did fundraisers for her and
just happy to know that she's home moving forward when she was on a breeding chin feeding chin and it was just like overnight a virus. So for that I'm very grateful to our parents and our
school community and we have our presence and we just like to say a few words. I know you guys are a time slot. So I just these two people with the entire PSV1 community is responsible for our art program raise a lot of funds for
us. I call them Bob Farmer. Do you have money? Yeah. And we have one action from CC. We're very proud. Stand up. Thank you, Miss Crane. My name is Renee
Walk and I'm a former pres PA president of the PS81. And to my left is Barbara Scully Orio, one of the um current co-presidents. Uh thank you to the CEC uh council for joining us today. Thank
you to uh Superintendent Hernandez for joining us at PS81. Uh I I just want to reiterate what you've already heard is that PS81 is a very special place. Um, first a big shout out to Diana and Mary who I think have
[Applause] completely in terms of inclusion and diversity and their newsletter is fantastic but that is only a fraction of what they do. They are a meaningful force um of getting parents together. uh
and our role in the parents association. I I I think number one is fundraising is a part of it, but that's that's not number one. Number one is community building and um bringing the parents to the table and seeing that they have a place um to be an active member and and
volunteer with the school. Uh so one of the things that I think we're most proud of is creating volunteer opportunities for parents um in their capacity. Uh and fortunately we've we've run some very successful events. Um we've had very
large events. Our Halloween event I think we had over 600 children here in the trunk or treat in our in our yard. Um, I'm incredibly proud of uh Ian Blaspuzz who has run for over 25 years the student show and that has been a
fantastic opportunity for our children especially our youngest children who don't have other opportunities to to be a part of the stage. Um so we do have a number of talented students and it's it's excellent to be a part of that. uh
PSA1's staff, administrators, the teachers, uh they they bring a strong sense of community. Something that I think is so notable about our school is that I see the children at drop off at at at when they walk in in the morning, they're greeted by the team. Uh and
that's something where every child that enters the building, they they know that they're seen and they know that they're welcome here. So I I of course want to thank Miss Crane who has been an excellent um source of guidance and support uh in a
volunteer position that was very new to me. Uh, and uh, again, thank you all for being here and and I'll hand it right back to you and here as well. And of course, the
part of the team is Miss Gary, who we told to take care of her baby. I told her not to come, but she's here. So, [Music] Miss became a homeowner this weekend, right? Last weekend.
Thank you. All right. So, I welcome you. I very happy for you to be here. is always available for you and thank you for being here today
[Music] and thank you very much. PS1, thank you, Principal Karee. Thank you for that excellent selection. I want to um commend that brave soul to come up
here and play it in front of strangers. We're going to see. Okay. But um I wish he could have told me how to play my my little violin that I have all the strings already popped
that I went to veteran many many years ago where I tried to learn how to play the violin and I was like I don't want to learn how to play that anymore. And my father introduced me into playing the drums. So that's what I'm really good at. But it is
commendable. I I really love to see students um showcase their talent and I'm hopefully that we will see him in Carnegie Hall or Link Center. That's one of the places I've been and see. But um
I don't think we see enough us there. That that's just my little disclosure. But thank you so much all the parents that came up and also introduced themselves to the community and the CT board to let us know that you have done awesome work of care. I congratulate you
in this new year, this new endeavor where we know we have unprecedented events happening, but you are the support and the heart at this school and I'm so happy that you're here to to even
tell us of the the small little things. I know you have done great things inside of PSA. Thank you so much. We're going to move right along in our agenda. We have the the
review and the approval of our minutes from our December meeting that we had at PS246 that's there on the grant concourse. And um all the council members have received a copy of these
calendar minutes. I will quickly just go over at that time um we did um present in regards to the SCA capital request. So we did had a presentation for that and um
Superintendent Hernandez gave us an update in regards to attendance in district 10. And quickly we also spoke about what's going to happen afterwards at the end of 2024 into 2025.
So those are just a quick summary of the calendar days of December 17, 2024. And if all members had a chance to look at those minutes, please someone
motion that we approve the minutes and make the necessary corrections if necessary. I the um the meeting minutes for last month, December 2024 meeting and business
uh with the necessary corrections. Someone second that motion. Thank you Amy Mai and Emma Lada and we will make the necessary corrections if necessary. Thank you so much. Who likes the good
part? It's 2025. Happy new year if I didn't say that. Happy Luna New Year to everyone that have the day off next tomorrow. Lucky you. I don't have the pleasure. Um yeah, the year of the snake. I don't have the
pleasure. So So the snake bit me. That's all right. not yet. But I do have the pleasure this evening to introduce um our superintendent who give us an update for 2025 in the outlook of district 10.
I here to introduce to some present to all of you our superintendent Ron. Well, thank you You [Music] are testing. All right. So,
[Applause] our district schools. So looking forward to see where he's going to be here to so he can continue on his craft. Um I want to start by thanking first uh principal
and Karen. You know I really appreciate [Music] you. Also want to thank our parent coordinator and PS8 for us and Diana you know I read your
newsletter and you know I just want to commend you for celebrating student voice items that you displayed in your newsletter and all the information so much that was presented in the newsletter for
simply person uh but just to just really celebrate uh students work and students voice at all different commenable. So I just want to thank you guys for that effort that you also put into to doing that to celebrate
the kids of the PSA. And finally, I want to PS is celebrating 100 years of service [Applause] to
just so we get into our presentation. Are we good? You're good to go. in our uh district 10 coalition focusing in our presentation around our four C's celebration coherence and collaboration and and we
have a there because attendance matters every single day. So we want to show you that attendance uh just want to start with that format and begin with our movement which is welcome 10 and how are you feeling? So I
ask folks who are joining us at home here district 10 throughout Northwest Bronx or if you chat and here you'd like to participate there just
where you are. So I don't know if anyone chat is next week. Oh my bad. Sorry, deputy superintend. All right. Um I'm feeling
I'm feeling fulfilled green. um not only just being here doing video review but also um our principles visited different communities in district 10 looking at really promising practices. So it was a fun day um of learning for the our
school leaders and really looking at how we can best service our community, our teachers, our students have an amazing education. So [Music] today I would also say for those of watching very much I
truly appreciate you guys. I appreciate you too. So to acknowledge Nice. All right. Executive director. I actually want to add to your word. So the word
that I want to add I just want to add I think this is in January. Um just really open open people
kindness and who we are as human beings. hope for our kids and families from district 10. Um, so I just want to kind of add that to your word for the month and I hope that you can share that with your kids. Uh, as well I just wanted to share with
you. So some staff updates to she's our executive director of school support and operations. She was part of my leadership team. She has retired. So we want to wish her well. uh
has been home in a month. Uh she retired uh actually January 1st, but from that point forward, I just want to make sure we acknowledge her. Uh hopefully you're on tonight one last but if you are we miss
you. We also want to welcome you team member to district 10 and that is our youth district house team member is Nico Santiago working with our special uh support team around students with IEPs
within our district. So comes to us with extensive experience working. So welcome to district 10. So we're going to
be collaboration within our district. So, first we want to officials here, specifically uh council council $13 million investment to
transform Bathgate Park. Um so all students and family in the neighborhood will benefit from this investment, especially those with PS59, PS1 159, PS23, P middle school 118,
PSS3 old in addition to all the community members that they park as well. So, thank you to Council Member Sanchez and our CEC membership in helping bring together
this event for our kids during the summer month. uh ensuring that students who are receiving uh holiday gifts having a good month of celebration and community uh at PS school 315. So this is just an
example of how our community comes together working together with our officials. So thank you very much for this word. So this is an extension of that as well is uh here we have a celebration where
one of the high schools within uh the high school district uh within actually uh district 10 came together with PS 360 uh and the high school students engage in um saving up and doing the toy drive
themselves and then they came to provide the young children with a PS3 also holiday gift. So it was a really memorable moment for the high school students. I actually was able to speak to them. Uh it's the first time they ever engaged in such an activity. So
these are moments that uh these high school students will never forget and be with them and who they are and how they I mean sort of develop their character. So really just a shout out to the fallen leadership academy leadership um and also students there as well.
So, our parent coordinators came together uh for our monthly professional development session. And I [Music] think our parent coordinators coming together for monthly professional
development session celebrating together prior to the break. Uh thank you for thank you to our family leadership coordinator Maria and our family support coordinator community. You guys do a wonderful job bringing everyone together, building their capacity,
providing them guidance um and really just creating I think a strong set of parent coordinators that service each of our schools within district 10. So kudos to you guys and your leadership and the work that you do. Um and also of course
to uh deputy superintendent to also present uh for this event as well and so was I. So I came here at the tail end uh to enjoy all the food that they made from all the different cultures that represent our current. So here we have our prek our
rodale prek center. So special thanks to principal parent coordina all the hill prek centers. We have six prek centers within district 10. Uh so shout out to the faculty uh the stu I need them because they
can't be sorry. Okay. So everyone can hear me. So just uh shout out to all the prek center faculty, staff and family volunteers uh for really again making this an amazing event uh and the prek
toy giveaway for uh center students. that we want to place as part of our chances of listening to all we're ready to be selected as the district where uh our chancellor was to come to the Bronx
and be able to engage our families. So, we just want to play a little video that uh they put together for us for our our here. All I have to say is I am overwhelmed with gratitude um for my Bronx home, for my community for welcoming me back home.
Um very very touched by all the staff uh families and students who came out. So thank you for that. Um I just want to briefly uh touch on a couple of things because we are over time and I want to get you all home. Uh clearly family empowerment, student empowerment um are
themes that resonated this evening and it's one thing to say it, it's another thing to create the structures for it to happen. And this is precisely why we started with these listening sessions. And what I want to say to you all is that this is one step in a very long
journey to make sure that you are all at the decision-m tables for yourselves as students and future leaders and families for when we are making decisions that you are deeply involved um in those decisions that we are making for your
children. We know that there's a lot of work to be done. We are not going to solve everything, but we are confident that together we can solve some very historic issues um that have persisted in our communities. And you know, this this moment was
really a proud moment for me as a superintendent. We had such a pack house. But more importantly, we we had our school leaders, our parent leaders, our entire CBC team was there, our leadership, um all our amazing students at different schools that engage in
performances. It was just a really proud event. Um and you know, kudos to um PS 306 and MS 331 for hosting the event. Uh, and just thank you again to every single staff member, apparently
supporter of district 10. All I have to say is I am overwhelmed with gratitude um for my Bronx home, for my community. All right. So, uh, with that as well, uh, I'm honored to present to everyone here
within our monthly CCB our big recipient, uh, Erasa from ministry 244 and I believe we have a video for to play for him. My name is Hussein Fasa.
I'm a math teacher. Mr. Fa has brought a spirit of service to the MS244 community. He's been an integral part of our math department, of our technology initiatives. He has also been instrumental in working with our
students, their parents, and really being a team player. Since he's been here, it's been about engaging student in his passion, which is math. He loves math, and he gets students to love it just as much as he does. So, you you're going to design several shapes. You're
going to design square parts. professionally. I think that he teaches really well. Like his pedagogy and his approaches to teaching and to learning, I think are really great. He just opened so many doors for me. Like he nominates students every year. It's like the
Oliver Scholars program, which is a program that helps you with like um getting into you getting you into independent schools, boarding schools, and he just sees the potential in everyone. He just really wants you to put your best foot forward and produce your best work. And so he did that for
me and like I feel like if it wasn't for him nominating me and just like trusting me and having that confidence in me that I didn't have yet at that point then I wouldn't be where I am now because he like gave me the skill set but also the confidence to be like I can use this in my further education. It's a real honor
being amongst such a tremendous group of people highlighting the tremendous work that we do in the public school system in New York City. We do some amazing work and it's really great to be in a fellowship with other teachers who are innovators in their field who are
pushing the envelope and I just you know I look forward to getting together with them and learning from [Music] them. So just a congratulation to Mr. out to 244 community for all that you have done for
our kids. And just a quick shot, this is a representation of what we have here. Just a pull like prehistoric food. So with kale. So continuing on um we had uh so we had so many events within the last
December January. So thank you to our parent coordinator Alex for organizing this event here at PS school 95. So this is a cooking event around wellness. So it's always great to be able to find different ways to partner and engage
families and students together and community. So this was just an example of that cutting this might and I don't want to do that. So, I'm going to take my hand with real. If I just started cutting this, I might
cut my fingers off and I don't want to do that. So, I'm going to take So, toss 315 uh safe college parent workshop. Uh so, this is a continuation of really building capacity with in the
community uh and building that capacity with our families around the importance of saving for college. Uh so just kudos to the team there for inviting the team to come out and have this parent workshop for families. So this is part of the middle
school 331 PS6 uh college awareness day. had their college swag, a couple of new suit and uh just really just reminding us of our struggling days of college. We didn't I guess you know depending who you were
you know if you didn't have um too much money a couple went a long way in my case peanut butter and jelly. Um yes and if you needed to taste it any different you can toast it or you can toast it. That's that's you know that's where
yes correct. So here just uh this was a great event at PS school 15. Um this was a readaloud event love for reading week. They had this whole celebration around the love for reading. Um I came I was
able to read a story to uh our kindergarten and first graders second graders were there as well. Um, so I got introduced as a superintendent and when I was 80, one of the students came up to me and tucked my my jacket and said, "So
you're Superman?" I thought he just special, but I think he just confused the word superintendent for Superman. I believe that he meant Superman. So I just wanted to share. So, thank you to the to the community,
the the families that were there as well for this event. I also went to them as well. So, building on our second annual New York City urban uh debate league, over 100 middle school debaters from uh
within district 10. So we had uh 80 represented 118, 206, 254, 279, uh 280, 390, 391. Arguing both sides building that capacity and they will all
focus on this particular question. Do the benefits of zoos outweigh the harms? So you take a side, present your side, your claim, use your evidence, and engage in this debate. Um, so we're
thanking for city council member Eric Dowitz who secured $45,000 of funding to support our two tournaments. Um, so he used a picture uh with our students before the tournament [Music] started. We have another picture with
him here as well. would also be thankful for our partnership with the New York City Urban Debate League. We created custom materials to support English language learners. Uh in 2014, New York City Urban Debate League and the New York City Department of Education
partnered uh to bring up this curriculum for this event. So just again me really excited here for uh and support really council member Eric Woods my staff members uh who were here to support the
event and of course all participating schools uh and our teacher leader Valerie Green Thomas as well a shout out to her and the work that she's done with our uh with our club. So continuing on that we have
Bronx study. So just really excited about here with uh and this is an event that actually uh engages districts outside of district 10. So we had district 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12
collectively engaged in this event. Was held uh two nights. uh was our Bronx Coral SP uh study meeting with 50 schools uh represented throughout uh all of the districts within the Bronx. Uh each school was allowed two students
that won their internal school uh spelling uh contest. families with packed moratorum representing all different schools throughout the cross supporting a collective uh uh just a collective event. A shout out to our
burial stand for being the MC uh for this event and volunteer his time uh for district 10. Of course, we time district 10. So I just want to I just have to shout out my team because we represented the entire Bronx but we were making sure
that uh kids had and see for this event seeing picture here to the right. Uh so community school district 10x12 uh schools compete. Three students from 10x45 10x 2007 10x
342 made the top nine and we will move on to the city finals. So congratulations to our students. So um this is the time of year and this is our third annual event around the personalized instruction for
engagement uh with live ready. Uh it's a competition that we are engaging and pushing our students to really engage. And so this is starting from February uh 24th until April 4th. right before testing really give those students the opportunity to engage and increase uh
reading access using um our tools that we offer the student within each of our schools as we're an IP uh district. Uh so looking at 30 plus minutes of engagement reading math per week 70% pass rate or higher uh schools will
implement this students engage in different competitions and awards. So, I give you an example as we uh shift over here to uh PS middle school 280. Uh they have already challenge here. The administrators as you can see them all
taken up to the wall. This is pretty cool. You know, I just um I don't really know how they You could never take me up to the war. I think I made to take a hard uh maybe for that. Uh but uh this is just a great way to bring kids,
community, everyone together just really engaging everyone. So um just just thanks kudos to the middle school PS community for their high rate challenge. So continuing to the PS
middle school pajama readaloud event. Uh so you know I was in attendance for this event last Thursday. Uh it was a pajama night with a readaloud from kindergarten to third grade students. This is an annual title one event that has been a
long time tradition at 280. Uh this is the first year they added third grade uh participants. So I want to just uh thank uh publicly CDC member HI for inviting me to this event. So really excited to
be a part of the event. I was able to give kids milk, some cookies, and also a shout out to um I just uh additional just a shout out to the Happy Truman High School Pastry Culinary Program. Uh the students there
made over 400 cookies for this event and donated the uh the cookies uh to the students and families at 280. So, uh, again, just a shout out to everyone at PSMS2A to, uh, Principal Weeks as well,
uh, for his leadership within the community. Uh, this was just a great and to all the teachers. Um, I have to say that when I just going into every single room, the teachers were so engaged. They made the event so cozy. Um, and while
the kids were just listening to stories, and this was around 5:30 or so, The parents were engaged in the technology workshop uh in the library. It was a really engaging evening and well the kudos to the community to the parents
there as well. We got a lot of but I tell you lots going on at the center in January don't get in my usual presentations but uh so you know PS9 parent engagement answers these are workshops various events
co-sponsored by the parents association at PS9 uh as you remember I shared during the holidays they also recently be here they're having a jewelry making workshop super classes for parents time management workshop for parents and just
a lot of good work is happening at PS9 and the parents and their team. So just kudos uh to the team and the parents association at PS9. So again uh this is our PS middle school 20 family engagement event. So um
here and our parent uh team members coming together to celebrate students the monthly student of the month breakfast celebration which begins through October December looking at academic looking at attendance degree supporting
our students in all they do just making sure they come to school every day but also this is uh as you recall this is just another event where they were providing the students uh some gifts um for achieving proficiency within the New
York uh state of math and scores as well and certificates and medals all sponsored and supported by the parents association and part of our children. So some additional events at PS 205 celebration. So we have our toy
giveaway, a food pantry, a senior center event where our young scholars go to visit our seniors uh and to celebrate with them during the holidays as many of them can be alone during that time. So really nice to have our young scholars be able to engage with our schemes
within our community. So u is 254 family events and activities. Uh so shout out to principal combo and his team here for just a family me food pantry event. So you know
just an array of uh just folks here. You can see the pack house. Um and really really great to see them all come together to support. And finally we have here for university women's basketball game. So there are different districts
represented here. Uh but you know kudos to all our kids who got an event to go and see uh the girls play at university. So women's basketball uh really competitive. It's always great for the local colleges open up their doors so
our kids can see what happens there. They don't just walk outside by student colleges but they can be a part of it as well. So as you know um you know we we we this is a new term of of of concern and um we
we engage in a professional development for our principles around pro the existing protocols for non-local law enforcement actions around schools to support immigration enforcement actions. So ensuring that my staff in my district
and under the principal's leadership, all staff members know exactly how to address any issues if um individuals from the federal law enforcement agency or state officials come regards to ICE. So we wanted to make sure that uh in
December we were building the capacity for our school leaders um and our and our staff members around the protocols. So this is just an example of the documentation that we provided. I want to make sure that we share with the community uh within district 10 that we
building that capacity. We also have our our communication lines open and supporting all schools and making sure that everyone is supported, our families are supported um moving forward with this um unfortunate set of events. Um
and in addition to that project with moms is part of the mayor's office of immigrant affairs is offering um our district in person um all virtual know your rights training sessions. So we are going to curate a list of dates and
different schools within district 10. I believe we have probably alone to be maybe 10 to 15 different sessions, but uh as soon as I get those sessions and locations, they're going to be a combination of inerson or virtual and we
will share that with all current coordinators or parent association presidents or constituents or school leaders within our community so that they have that available. So this is an opportunity uh to engage with additional
uh Q&A and any updated policies as well because as we speak policies are being updated. So we we need to make sure that we have the most current information to support our so as I say um every month and I will continue to say every single day uh
it's really important. Attendance counts. Being in school every day matters. So just to share the attendance data uh for community school district 10. So here today we're at 90.80% compared to the Bronx as a whole. Uh it's
89.20% compared to New York City public schools is 90.10%. Uh so you know we're happy to to see that really impact there. Uh yearto date absenteeism is 33.4%.
We want that lower. Um that a lower number is a better number. Uh so we're continuing to strive uh toward that and the only way to get that number lower is coming to school every single day. Um but compare that to the Bronx, they're
36.3. Uh and then we call our schools 31.3. So it's important that we also dissect our and analyze our data. So we go into our subgroups. Um we look at multilingual multilingual learners um and debt attendance is
91% chronic absenteeism is 33 students with IPS are 89.70% uh with 38.20% chronic absenteeism uh students in temporary housing within district Tennessee 9.60
uh with 38.60% 60% uh chronic absentism and our female and male students it's it's pretty much you know close we have females at 91 10% 90.60%
um with uh that representing also 32.60 60 34 30% in chronic absent diseases. But again, message to everyone at home, message to all, you know, our parent leaders who are listening in, I'm really, you know, I'm always really
grateful that our parent leaders are always on each of these meetings. The more that we can spread the message, every day counts. Every day counts. That speaks to engaging. I appreciate as our parent who's here um at PST1 shared their meeting with our kids in the
morning as well. Uh so everyone greeting everyone to make sure they feel comfortable while our students feel comfortable when they come in this greeting. So I'm happy to uh continue our support around our students. uh we did a presentation for our students uh
with uh I IPS and the services that we offer in our district and also professional development that we provide. And so uh for this evening's presentation, this comes presentation about the services that we provide for our team learner students. I will uh
hand over a presentation to our deputy superintendent Mar who will be joining us virtually. [Music] [Music] She says she can't unmute. [Music] Good evening everyone. Thank you so much
for unmuting me. I'm thrilled to be here with you all this evening. Um, yes, Superintendent uh Hernandez Hernandez was talking about um attendance for our L's. I thought that was a great segue to this um portion of the evening where
we'll talk about um compliance and then instruction for our English language and multilingual learners. Um and I'm so happy to have this opportunity to do this with you all this evening. So if you take a look first um this slide is
really looking at our students who have um been designated as English language learners. Um and if you take a look we are higher uh than the the Bronx on whole. Um our numbers are about 24.3% of
our students versus the Bronx in general which is about 20%. Um and then the same for our former L's. That would be students who have um scored at the commanding level on the nicest lat. And we'll talk a little bit about more that in a minute. Um and our percentage is
6.2% versus the the the Bronx at 4.9. And then our students who are dy identified, meaning that they're an English language learner and they also have an individualized education plan, an IEP, we are uh coming in at 5.9% of
our students. Uh whereas the Bronx is um 4.2%. 2%. And so essentially what that's saying is that we just we have a lot of students in our community who are developing English as um as a new language and it's a really exciting
place to be for for our students on their linguistic journey. These students are served in a variety of different programs. The three that are mentioned here are transitional bilingual programs and we have 23 of those across community school district
10. um that would be in Spanish uh transitional um bilingual programs but for special education for those students who are duly identified as I just mentioned we have 11 of those programs and then dual language where students are learning to maintain um both
languages not transitioning just to English but maintaining both languages we have six of those programs throughout the district and any of the students not served in one of those programs would be in an ENL program. That means that they are getting services supporting them um
as they develop their English skills and then they remain with their um English-speaking classroom for the duration of the day. So if you look at um how we service most of our students, if you see um we have our English as a new language
program, what I mentioned, that is the vast majority of our students, right? That's 62.3% of our students. Whereas the transitional bilingual program and dual language serve a much smaller percentage of our students coming in together at about
37%. So a few years ago we started our mantra as saying that we're all teachers of L's and this slide is a perfect example of that because 62% of our students are only receiving support from their classroom teachers and content
teachers of course and um their English as a new language teacher. they're not being serviced in in a bilingual program. So, it really um supports this notion of um we are all every single one of our teachers is a
teacher of English language learners. Um this slide really just delineates the different proficiency levels. So on the NISSLAT um there are that's the test of um English language progress that students who are
identified as English language learners take every spring. There are five levels where students can score. Entering, emerging, transitioning, expanding, and commanding. So entering and emerging are really your beginners. Those are your um
your new students to the language and they're early on in their linguistic journey. Um, for those students who are are transitioning, that means they're making the transition, right? They're transitioning over to having a larger command of of English. And that largely
has a lot to do with them beginning to gain more um familiarity with academic language, all that academic vocabulary that students need to be successful. And then the last two levels, one is expanding and that's really a student who is well on their way on their
linguistic journey um towards um native like fluency. And I I say that laughing a little bit because we know that for um elementary school students where I've spent my entire career, there are no um fluent speakers of English in in uh
elementary school because all students in elementary school are on their linguistic journey. Nonetheless, expanding students are reaching native like fluency in English. And the last group that's not here, that's showing students who have tested out. They've scored at commanding, which is the
highest level. So, if you look, we really have a pretty fair distribution AC across the four proficiency levels that are noted here. So, that means that our students are um are fairly evenly distributed. If you take a look, it's
also noted by grade, right? So if you'd see that for entering students, that's students who again are early on in their linguistic journey, it's very heavy in kindergarten, which makes a lot of sense because those are students who are just beginning to have exposure to the
English language. Um, be it because they're a new arrival to the United States or because they're new to the language, because they're just starting their their academic um journey. Um, just in terms of some policy updates that you you should be
aware of, there's an amazing tool called the EDAT that every school receives. And this school really gives this school this data point, this tool really gives um school-based staff, administrators, and teachers lots of information about
where their students are performing relative to the nislat. and um and it really is a tool that can be used by schools to make some good databased decisions on how they can best um support their their students. Um the
other one that's noted here is just the catalog of policy topics. Um Superintendent Hernandez had mentioned the importance of um all of the professional learning that we provide. And so these are just some of the examples of policybased professional
learning that happens across um the winter going into the spring. Um all of our schools get different kinds of policy support. So all schools have access to that calendar of professional learning that I just referenced. And they also receive this
monthly eater which gives um updates for for schools just to really be able to reference again so that they can make um strong decisions at the school. Targeted support is really um policy support meetings where Karina Tahera who's on
our team um works with school leadership to really look at specific metrics to make sure that students are receiving the services that they're supposed to receive. Um and if there are issues um that arise, the um Karina's role um is
really there to support the schools to kind of you know um be able to deal with those issues as they arise as soon as possible. Um and again she posts ongoing policy metrics um and continues to share that data so that schools can stay on
top of it. And now the most exciting slide to me at least um the ways that we support our schools around um instruction. And so we'll take a look at the left side first that really looks at all schools. So every single one of our schools
participates in our year-long focus um on the implementation of discussion protocols through our work with the researcher Kate Canella. We're really excited about um that we started we kicked off strong in September and each month including just a couple of days
ago um we had a session where they're looking at different discourse protocols that teachers can use in the classroom to really support um again English language learners but really all of our students. We also had tremendous
training day on um on the election day where we had 700 teachers across the district uh that was re receiving all kinds of training around into reading. Um and uh that included a focus on small group instruction targeted support for
English language learners um and we're continuing to do ongoing training and coaching of teachers. And we also had um and continue to have training uh with the program ARA lectura which is the Spanish component for our TBE and dual
language classes um um from inter reading. And on the other side we have some targeted school support. So we do instructional visits where we have members of our team going in and looking at different classroom uh practices to see how we can um support them in
improving practices. The goal is always to improve practices. And then we have um some additional support with our team, our mess. Those are our multilingual and English language service administrators going into
support specific schools around specific needs that they may have. Um and finally, we have our uh thinking map training. So, as you you may know, if you've heard me speak before, uh thinking maps are eight visuals that are
aligned to eight cognitive processes. We have 22 of our schools that have already started this training. Um and we have just received a grant, uh the LTG grant, so we'll have additional schools that will get training over the next three years. And we're really, really excited.
I can't contain myself excited to be able to continue that training because I think it's so incredibly positive for teachers and ultimately students. And so that essentially is the work that that we're doing across our district to support our uh mills and
L's. Uh and we are um really excited to see the fruits of that labor um through our MOI data, our middle-ofear data, and of course throughout the the rest of the school year. and thank you for the opportunity to being able to uh share this with you this evening.
Uh thank you very much. So before we go to um the updates, reminders and announcement just I didn't take any questions if anyone has questions uh online questions at the table. If not, I can keep going. I do
have a couple more um just updates, reminders, and announcements. [Music] Okay. So, we're going to we're going to keep going with our presentation. So, some updates for our community. Just pretend community announcements.
So, uh, we want to we want to make sure that we're continuing to announce all the good work that we're doing at each of our schools around the New York City scholarship milestones, uh, within New York City, uh, kids rise initiative. Um, so just just so that we
can, uh, update everyone here, we have 10,600 uh, District 10 students with New York City scholarship accounts. We can go to the next slide. Including 2900 receiving accounts
this month. So kudos to to all our schools, our parent coordinators, our PA leaders as well as our students have accumulated 1,195,4 in their New York City scholarship accounts. So again, kudos
uh to to the work that's being done. There's still a lot of work to be done and we're going to continue to push the message, continue to build capacity and awareness uh so we can support our our families uh with every account um so
every single account in our district is activated uh and no money is being left on the table for our students in our community. So just uh as we do every month, just letting everyone know the Minecraft battle of the burrows uh continues to
remain open. So just wanted to share that. Again, this is also being shared within each of our schools and our parent coordinators has have this information as well. Uh in addition, uh as a reminder, our prek prek kindergarten application is open and
will continue to stay open until February 28th. Uh we will drop this flyer that you see here uh in the chat as well. So, uh you don't have to take a picture, but if you want to take a picture, that's fine, but we will drop
the link into the chat to support our community around the application process. And just a reminder to everyone that our chancellor provos kickoff event for the 2025 CC
uh cce elections is happening. Uh this is an opportunity to be a a part of voice within your different communities. So whether you're within district 10 or you are parent who also lives or had a
child different community as well uh it's important to get your voice out be a part of the the the change team as you can see we have an amazing team here in D10 so you want to emulate this if you're a part of different district so just shout out to our team over here so
you can take a picture of this slide as So uh this is just you're going to see these as well. This is sort of being part of a celebration around and the awareness of the election. So this is should be on display with within each of
our schools within our within New York City across the entire San. So some events coming up uh save the day. Uh this Saturday uh we have our uh arts festival event. So kudos to
Sarah the team and everybody who's like supporting int. So please so if you want to see the amazing work our students are engaging please join us this Saturday attech and it's going to be a great
event. Uh Sarah, what time we start there? 9:00. So, make sure you're there early. Our kids are going to be there and everything's going to be set up to be a great event showcasing different talents across our district and all different types of artwork uh that'll be displayed
for our students. So, I can't wait. I I'll definitely be there. And also, if you haven't met me yet, this will be a great opportunity to meet me in person as well on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing everyone February 1st atte. So, so just some updates uh for
our district, state, and federal updates for our comprehensive education plan. CVs have been updated in response to feedback from district team members. Uh and my approval has of all the plans is in public view. Uh so I just wanted to
make sure that we uh update and provide this information for our district schools here and our families. All title one schools must uh complete the school plan for expenditure for
title one set aside funding and upload those completed spending plans in I plan uh document must be signed by the principles again some continuous updates here of our district and state federal updates and finally please continue to
organize documents for title one and SLT meetings. So this is a new process this year within city public schools and we have been supporting um each of our schools around the design within our SLTs to ensure that they have the
documentation. Uh this is something that we are doing as a district. It's not something that someone had access from the central team do. Uh so we have identified point person in every school and we are not only supporting them with what has to be done but also
quality as well. So it is very important that the SLT use the monthly calendar to create agenda items. Again, constantly uh building capacity within our team as we
model the DT is what should be done within the SLT as well. uh a good explicit instructional strategy uh for our uh certified DT structure. So ongoing monthly
partnership and collaboration with morning side uh we've been having some pretty good attendance around those uh presentation. Uh so just you know again this is the workshops that are coming up uh our next workshop that'll be February
5th 2025 understanding the adolescent brain uh so just a preview to that looking forward to having all our family members and parents and community members attending this virtual workshop
sponsored by the morning partners. Uh this is just a link uh to all our DACA uh title one meetings and here we have our CDC obviously we have January meeting that's
here today so can move on to that our upcoming CDC meetings we're chipping away there February 25th 2025 it's our next our president council meetings
here. As a reminder, PS and PTA's principles, the interimm uh financial report is due January 31st, 2025. our DLT monthly meetings. Our next meeting is February
6th. And of course, again, this is our arts festival. Uh what a lovely flyer we have here, February uh 1st uh from 9 to 2:00 p.m. So, really looking forward to having a great event this weekend.
So community activity uh updates our again this is just a list of our our arts festival math tour science fair our CST literacy uh community school district 10 literacy fairs as we said we were having a literacy fair so
that's going to happen u May 17th is going to be from 9 to 12 and location is going to be at 10x246 so we are already planning for that event. It's going to be a great event. We're looking forward to having everyone join us for that event. So,
that's a new update on Power Day 17. Yes. In addition to that, uh we're going to host a series of district 10 um family and the science of reading. So, this is going to be a virtual event for
a three-part series. So, we're excited. We're going to throw this link in the chat as well. So families can have access. So uh our first s our first session will be Thursday, February 13th from 6:30 to 7:45. Our second session is going to be
March 20th and our final session will be April 10th. So we've been working on this with our team and our partners. Uh we've been curating resources around the science of reading and the good work that we've been doing across our district. So looking forward to having
everyone participate uh within this event so we can provide uh different resources and activities and games uh for our families to support learning at home as well. And of course our chancellor's time event is going to happen Monday,
February 10th from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and it's going to be at IS254. That's at 24 52 Washington Avenue. Um, this event will be live streamed, but we would love to have you in person. Uh, please encourage all
family members to attend. Uh, we will have translation at this event. So, we are excited to welcome our chancellor back to uh, community school district 10 to join us uh, to really just engage in her vision and engage in an opportunity
for Q&A as well within our community. So this concludes the um my presentation. Um apologies for the left but have a lot of information that you wanted to share. So thank you very much.
Are there any questions or comments for superintendent? Yes. Um you mentioned about the DT SLT title one documents being uploaded. Um is that
open also to the public or is this just a document for the school base? So those are the documents that are happening. So during the meeting those are the documents that so their agenda minutes. So they're being uploaded for public. So
that's why we wanted to support them in how to upload those documents. Uh this is the first time that they actually uploaded in addition there's a progress monitoring document as well as being done and um just supporting a simple
thing as if currently our schools use running agenda records with Google Docs but you can't upload a Google doc. So as simple as like converting that document into PDF so that you have to do it by PDF and then upload. So just some
technical items but also quality because we want to make sure that you understand that this is open to the public view so we're having some opportunities that we can work on uh just sort of taking top like what's really good minutes what do they look like and supporting our teams.
So this is a lot of new learning this year and it didn't pass before. One more question on that title one. Um maybe about four or five years I was the citywide title one for district 10. Is
it possible we bring a citywide title one um for the district back again so that everybody hear and understand at the same time? Because when I go to somebody, one of the most important
things that parents talk about is title one and title one funding and I used to do that. The other question is we talked about the uh planning and uh science
meeting on February 13. Um I don't see a QR code. How do you register for that? [Music] So we have the the link there but if we need to add a QR code uh we can do that.
uh Mary and my team members are online but uh I believe that there is a link with um the Zoom but we we'll update the community and make sure that everyone gets access to that. Um definitely want to make sure that everyone has access to the event.
Yeah, you can't get rid of me. Um so on the 13th we don't have a registration. The QR code that's on the flyer is to join the Zoom link in case someone needs to join from their phone. There's also where it says join virtually that um goes directly to the link. So we would
encourage you to share um broadly as broadly as you can because we would love to have as many folks on as possible. But it's not a registration. We just want everyone to come. Just thank you for the order. Any more questions for Superintendent
Hernandez? really quick. I put it into the chat. Oh, you did. Yeah. What's the difference between the citywide ed councils and the community ed councils kind of related to um the position?
Oh, in the CC elections. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, look my my these two are the Bronxboro president appointees and they're are more savvy than I am with
citywide and I could probably piggyback on the um CCS. Uh so good evening everyone. Um yes me myself and Miss Alana here are burough appointees by the Vanessa
Nixon's office but both of us usually are former members of citywide council on education. Um there's a lot of food for you but she was a citywide council of high schools to represent all the high schools across the city in all five
burrows. I think roughly we have like hundreds of high schools across. So it's a big population that needs to be really represented in the voice out of the community to make sure that you know students have a a smooth transition into
the college pathways and you know other opportunities. I served on the formark council citywide council for district 75 programs which is a citywide program for students with special needs particularly um with IEPs and more vulnerable classifications and disabilities. Um we
serve on the capacity of all five vulnerable families and students. We serve specifically in those categories and we just like the community education council they are geographically located here. um they have their concerns here,
but on the city of Wild as the chancellor advisors, we talk a lot about everything like the community education council, but also specifically on high schools and special education, English language learners, which also has a
council, special education has a council and district 75 council. So, it's a larger range uh that you're representing uh from the city. Just like Miss Parcel, she's representing district 75 as a parent member here in district 10, but
she's also representing district 75 families who also have their children attending school here in this geographic district. So, the responsibilities are a little bit different. We citywide we come up with a report, annual report
that uh comes up with the concerns and questions that parents may have and come up with the resolutions that we seek from our family communities to the chancellor and to report to the chancellor. These are our findings that we ask for accountability. Uh on the
community education council, they do a superintendent evaluation at the end of the school year to ensure that superintendent is held accountable for what he's providing to the community just the same. But I would say the
chances responsible, right, for the school system. Um, so it's every opportunity you have once you are interested to run, you go to the New York City Schools account and you will see what you're eligible for either
citywide on special education, English minded learners. If you have a high school student, you'll be able to run on a citywide high school council. And if you have a child, you'll be able to run on a citywide district by 75. Um another question is going to be attending.
Okay. But um was a lot to add. Yeah. As the uh citywide high school, you're appointed under the public advocate and D75. Same thing, public
advocate. Whereas with the CEC's is done through the parent body of that district. for the CDC. If you're you don't have a child, well, in my case, my kids are grown. Um, I'm appointed to the burough president. So, there's two
different types of applications. You can go through the public advocate and the bur president for the citywide high school degree in 60s or at the local level, which would be your bur
president appointee. They're exactly um 12 plus 12 plus appointed to the bronze itself. The bur president has 12 representatives within the uh bronze itself and each bur have their own
appointees through the bur president through the public is a little bit different. Um with the high schools similar to the CDC's we have to travel. So we can go anywhere from Satnob to the northern part of Bronx, Woodland,
Queens. Um other than that, it's it's pretty pretty clear and we're trying to encourage everyone to run for a seat on a council so that your voice is heard. We don't only represent your child,
represent the district as well. Oh, and we're under 2590, which is state regulation for the CDC at the community [Music] level. It's going to say
[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Thank you. Hi. Um so this from um he's touching on
the point for title one where um all the paperwork the reports are going into the plan portal. So um I'm talking slow um so he's saying that um that it's good that actually
they were touching in that point um he's from 340 he has 340 um they were touching on that point yesterday and today that um they were doing that so that way he knows and also um is saying that for
feedback that he thinks it is very good that this is happening so that way um the parents can view everything that is going on in their schools and it's mostly for transparency and thank you
and we just put up the slide just a summary of what was presented from our CDC members. So if anyone wants to take a quick picture of the slides as well. So if you want to just screenshot but well done.
[Music] Anyway, thank you for the question. Yeah, I have a question. Um, so it's a three-part question. one. Um, you got the answer. Come on. You're
good today. You got hope. Um, so super deputy superintendent mentioned about the dual language for English language learners. Um, that is that specifically because I know we have a high rate of students who are uh uh Spanish speaking.
Um, but we also have students that speak other languages to their native tongue. So um what about languages and the staff or is is there other languages that support it just Spanish? Yes. So
question development is so we're looking at language diversity for all students. Um but just to give you a number we have 6,399 uh students who are considered multi English language learners. Of those
6,399 students, we have 5,917 that are Spanish speaking, multilingual learners. Uh for our remaining students, uh we do it's it's our strategies are for all our students and we support our students, but that's why we also mention about additional
programs specifically here. Spanish speaking students are bilingual programs because of the amount of students where we have most students within all the districts within the Bronx. And I don't know if Mary you wanted to add anything as well.
Are you good? Okay. Um I know that um we are very extremely responsive around this district for years. So, I know there was um the diversity that we want to build with the multicultural
around teachers and professionals and school aids in the school. Where are we at to make sure that diversity is really covered and to reflect the students that are in the district so that they don't see themselves alone? And then the last
question is um this is I guess it's a curious question because my own children had asked is Spanish the only language in middle school that's being taught because they would like other languages. I know that it occurs in high school,
especially in Manhattan, but here in when it comes from middle school to high school, a lot of times Spanish is the only language that they're being taught in class, maybe even for the fluent students who speak Spanish already who like to learn French or
Mandarin or Italian, you know, something that they can utilize as they travel to other countries, seek other cultures. Just curious if there is already something and if not let's promote more and hire more diverse staff to support
language access. Absolutely. I think that's something that we're striving to do as a district um are teaching our schools when they can offer uh the cost different. They do offer clubs in which
they also give students those opportunities. Um but in addition to that we also have schools that participate in uh our virtual there's some virtual opportunities as well with language but we can definitely get that number of the actual classes but we do
have students that offer clubs as well cultural clubs that offer opportunities for students to learn different languages where we can get that data for you. And when it comes to to the hiring, uh I think this is something that's been a longstanding district 10. Uh we want to make sure that students are
represented and seen as well and those that support them within the community. And at the same time, we also want to make sure that we are welcoming to the best potential candidates because teaching is extremely complex. It is so difficult. It's hard. uh and we want to
make sure that we are bringing in um a diverse group of teachers into and staff members into our community and building their capacity uh so that they remain in district 10 and they don't leave outside our district.
[Music] Thank you so much. Um the time is 8:17 p.m. Uh thank you Superintendent Hernandez. Um thank you for that question. Um the gentleman that asked
what is the difference between citywide and CC councils um please parents um parent coordinators principal please type our
famil family's interest in this type of field and joining the election even if it's just to vote as we have voted in our previous political elections. It is so important that when you advocate for
your child that your voice is heard, that your voice is not heard through mumbles and grumbles behind people back that you actually have a voice. I also want to emphasize that as
um other families who are inquiring in regards to to people that have seen that I'm a a citizen about that information. It's not pretty. We just need parents to advocate for their child. This is not
about you. It's about your children in the district. So please, ma'am, sir, please um sign into your DISCA account or ask your parent coordinator for more information about the CC elections. I
would hope to see um not only um the council members here present be a part but we would like to have other voices be heard and not only in big forums but
it's in these quiet moments or in I would say intimate moments that most of the work is done. So this work is very um rewarding after a time and once you participate you will understand more.
Thank you so much superintendent. Thank you for all that information. [Music] It's at the next CC meeting. Yes. So, um we will have a training. Uh I believe Freddy's joining us. He's one
of our senior budget director. We have two budget directors and uh we're going to co-f facilitate a presentation at our next CC meeting around funding and our our fair student funding budget presentation. So that'll be our upcoming
uh CC meeting February 25th. 25 ladies. Thank you so much. Um, as I said, it is 8:20 p.m. I mean, quickly going into my report. I know we are overwhelmed. Um
the month of January was um overwhelming to say and I went to several meetings um in the in the district. I will say quickly with some of my council members.
We went to a meeting on January 6 with the uft president um in Manhattan. Um there was another um D75. There was plenty D75 information. Um
YCP summer young is now open for all teen ages ages 14 to 24. Yeah, I call it summer young. That's what the kids call it. Um please have your children sign up. Do not wait for the last minute.
This is money and um a routine. It is um get your kids interested and understand why earning money is rewarding instead of them begging us all the time during the summer. And it will build an
accountability and responsibility for children so that when they go back to school that they will understand that they could spend their own money. Please don't have them be home all summer doing
nothing, sleeping all day because once September comes in, we got to build back that routine. So YSP the applications are now open. Um also I had so many in district 75 today.
It was a lot um this month. And I I also want to emphasize the town hall with Chancellor um Eveless um Ramos slip library um that we're going to have. Please
register. I know us we like to wait for the last minute to do everything. Please register online. Please also register CC meeting if elections that is also open. So that's your homework. YCP, if you got
kids 14 to 24, register for the town hall. Register for CC elections. You have your homework. Those flyers have been sent out to you. Do not put it in the junk folder and leave it in so you're going to remember. Trust me,
you're not going to remember. Do it now. If you have your phone, do it now at this moment. and just plug it in and say and it will be in your Google calendar. Yes, parents have to submit questions in advance. You could do it
the day of in person, but you please would like if you register in advance and put those questions and comments so they would be filtered accordingly through the team through themes. if that's the right
word. Okay, that's it for me. I I had a lot more stuff to say, but um those things are more important. Okay, we see um false president.
Yes, you can say that. Yes, I'm done. That's the end of my report. Thank you so much. My mind is too long till I will go over the place and sit in between. But I will say next Tuesday I will be going up to the state
capital on behalf of the educational council on behalf of the other groups that I belong to to fight some of the bills that um need to have passed. Uh I believe my housing movement today. So, it's a lot of stuff that's happening. As
I always use the statement, get on the bus and I don't all I tell parents the bus. Um, as a appointee, you can also get
information office on Tuesday, February 4th. Uh they are having a solidarity day and that will be at the courthouse at 851 Grand Compost and we have flying for those who need it. The United Federation
of Teachers will be holding a workshop on Saturday, May 10th and then Saturday, May 17th. Those are in person and at the end of those two you get a certificate in Kentucky and that's at 52 Norway at
the UF headquarters and the other one is on May uh still February 5th education budget and that will I have for that that's learn about the New York City New York
state education budget. So, we're trying to get folks involved if you're running for a particular position, whether it's the citywide or CC. Some of the stuff we're going to need to know. And thank you to our council folks that showed up
for our walk through. As our president said, we're looking forward the turnout of district 10 as we invite our uh chancellor to our town hall. Through the walk through, we were able to see the
seating, the classrooms, the auditorium, the library. We're looking for about 4 500 panels. We also have fire. Uh at our last check-in we talked about bringing in resources. So we're trying to get
everyone as they say hands on deck. It will be at MS254 and the entire staff at the school as well as the school uh leadership team, the school uh PTA as well as the
student body will be there to help. What we're going to do is we're asking everyone to register because of the impact and the crowd. It will also be a QR code that you have scanned coming into the building because of security
purposes. But we're encouraging everyone to come out and maybe in February I'll update all the stuff that I do. Um, but one last thing is my group that met on Saturday, we're trying to save that
Kingbridge Armory, which is the largest armory in the nation. We will have a meeting next Thursday. Yeah, next Thursday. And it will be online to hear exactly what's going to happen in the Kingbridge. and
nominate that to the different schools through our AA so that they can send it out. Once again, that bill set for 30 years and we need to save our Thank [Music]
you, [Music] Cher. Uh, any other members of the council like to share their report? [Music]
Hello. Can you hear me? Um, so I'm Erica representative from the education consultant. Um I will start December um was working with the FDNY um to bring workshops on fire safety because
we think that um these times are very um the fires should be go up because of um at another peak or because um you know the holidays so people like to cook and all of that so a lot of fires happen. So
I love those workshops to the schools that I gaze on. Um I brought some parents to the police um which is in Manhattan. Um I basically students um to receive gifts. Um I went
to the uft on the 20th um also on the 21st we went to give away a work which is in Manhattan. um that was specifically for um I gave the individual parents to families who were who are survivors of domestic violence.
So um they that organization is very good with with that. So um providing resources for them. Um the I also went to the King's Day breakfast. Um it's not part of CC, but I do mention it because the chancellor was there. Um and we were
part of the parade kings day parade um from the museum. Um and I was very excited and touched to see a lot of children um not only participate in the parade but also around from where the hotel is all the
way to um 16th Street. It was really nice because the parents were and the the kids were um on the sidewalks and they were like saying hi and they were and we were saying hi to them and it was it was really nice because they were excited and we see the joy in their faces they didn't see um some of them were seeing presents but those children
were just there saying hi hi um and it it was really nice um we had the meeting with UFT on the 6th um and then for the beyond accessories with faculty with IP on the seventh um and I went to the high
school fedoration and to the mayor's state of address which was in Harlem. Um we have been working as the representative with us to provide workshops. Um we had one on Saturday,
January 11th where we gave um by donating some um toys for the children and that workshop was reading the IP like certain pages to parents so that way they could get accustomed to what the pages which which pages of course all of them are important but um to
which pages to look at and where the um where all the items are there. For example, page four, item three. this is what it means. Um and translating that to them. Um basically on the right um but by school 85 um and there I'm very happy because
the reading I upgraded all the to um and when I mean upgraded I mean the whole floors the floors are going to be great. They're going to get new chairs. Um the curtains are great curtains. Um and then the stage they have a great
stage. Um, and with the projector, everything was great. But I'm amazed and I'm that I want to see when is the project going to um so um I can give you like a date of when the project will start and what the project will end. And there are also a
new playground which is very exciting. Um the playground is only for the prek and kindergarteners which is on the side. um the left side of the actual school which is actually great. I'm really happy for them and they were like you know we're going to get this. It is very exciting to work with the um
schools. Um I'll just end I have more things but I'll end with that. It is very great to be a leazison with the schools because you work with them. Um, and to me, I've been working with them for almost a few years, and it's really great because they they're from the
community and they, you know, they say, "Wait, when you came here, we didn't have this." You know, it does. And um, and looking for the resources that sometimes, you know, the principal wants to pray, right? Or the teacher wants to pray, but they don't know how, right? And then us as a we can say, "Oh, this
organization has it. this um council member will go to um you know um the resume. So that helps a lot and I'll end I'll end with that. Thank you. Thank you. Um we have one more I just want to
quickly add before we go to um one more council member. I want to applaud to principal and principal combo if he's still on there. I think I saw principal Nikolai
[Music] Nicholas, I think I saw her float in there. Um, I want to thank you so much for helping me and the council with the SCA capital request. We've had over 108
requests. Ow. And I think you overwhelmed SCA. Ow. So, let's continue to bombard them and let them know, yes, you have overlooked us. And this is what happens when we get overlooked for
2025. We going to just dump it all on one smacking moment. And and there will be a resubmission at the end of April. I already received two of those resubmissions from our officers in
district 10. Just keep on bringing them in and we will send in another report at that time frame. Thank you council members who supported those sea requests by hitting up your principles or whoever it is to send them in in a timely manner
cuz it is needed and we are touching kissing 2030 and our schools look like and that's unacceptable to me and the council members. We need to do
way better. And if the city is upgrading, our schools need to upgrade as well. We should not be sitting in the dust. And our facility should be welcoming so that kids wouldn't be in school. So then we will have the
necessary facilities to accommodate all the interest our students need in the district. Um, we have one more council member and we're going to break right after that [Music] council. I'm just going to give the some
information. I'm not going to give you the full report next month. coming. [Music] So sh with the commissioner rights and if you need any information or if you want to bring it to your school the
information is on the chat. I also have shared um from different organizations living within the organization that supports the community workshops now and I will continue sharing those um
workshops district [Music] 10 and thank you. Thank you. [Music]
Okay. Um, quickly I want to piggy back off of what council member Yanni said. As Treva mentioned, there is we we quickly just transitioning into our public comments. There is um someone
online in the chat. She dropped her information in regards to human rights. Her name is Sam Lopez. And if you need if she's still online um let's see. Yes, she's still online.
If she could just um quickly at this point, thank you council members for all your information and what you have done um and district 10 this month. But um I want to quickly if you could just speak
in regards to the human rights and information. [Music] Thank you so much. Um, good evening. Good evening everybody. Uh, my name is Samis and I'm an associate human rights
specialist with the New York City Commission on Human Rights. I happen to be based out of the Bronx uh, Commission on Human Rights Office. So, our mission as an agency is to empower New Yorkers to report discrimination to the city in the five bureaus of New York based on
things like discrimination connected to age, race, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, if you have a voucher to pay the rent and you're being denied an apartment because you have a voucher. Those are all examples of things that
you can report to the commission on your rights. So, I wanted to have the space to basically let people know that we're in the community because not a lot of people know that we exist as an agency and that there's an dedicated agency that exists to protect people's human
rights in the five burrows. So, please spread the word about us. Let people know that if they would like a formal workshop that collectively at the commission on human rights, we speak more than 20 languages in the city of New York. So, that's something that we're happy to arrange. And then I'll
leave the live legal info line number for you all to have in mind in case you come across somebody that may be experiencing discrimination so that they can use that number and report the discrimination inquiry to the Commission
on Human Rights. And that number is 212416197. Again, that's 212416197. My email is s lopezccr.nyc.gov. Again, that's s lopez at cchr.nyc.gov. If you'd like to reach out to me directly to request a workshop for any
school that you either staff or if you want us to present the human rights law to students and parent associations, that's something that I'm definitely very happy to coordinate and please keep us in mind. Um,
York. criminal. discrimin. for York. Lopez Ato. Yeah, thank you so much for um allowing me the opportunity to speak. I was just reinforcing everything that I said in English and letting people know that we
exist as an agency to empower people to report um discrimination inquiries and to definitely keep us in mind and invite us to different spaces that speak uh different languages because language justice is really important to us and as per local law 30 um every city agency
and services need to be provided in the main languages um that New Yorkers speak in the city of New York. Thank you. So, Miss Lopez, can you please put your information in the chat one more time? Yes, definitely. I'm going to um do that
again and I'm going to post it in English and Spanish for people that don't know in the chat. For the information, the time is now [Music] 8:43. Is there any
more public comments or questions? Any question for us? No. No questions in the chat. I know it's kind of overwhelming tonight. It's the first of the It's the first
one. It's the first one that they a lot. Okay. Well, it is 8:43 and someone please make a bullish. Oh,
[Music] okay. Vice President, it's a motion to Oh, Miss Alana first makes a motion to adjourn the calendar the calendar
meeting of CC 10 at 8:43 and the Sire VP has second motion and will be right back after these messages. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, District 10,
Superintendent Hernandez. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, PSD1. Um, we we'll be right back within I'm going to say about 10 minutes. Thank you.
[Applause] [Music] They have amazing looking to even though you know Because this yellowish
[Music] [Music] There we go. There we go. Okay, let's shut up. Let me know if you can hear me. I know.
Um, okay. I'll just quickly say um Miss Emma treasurer. So um from right now from that [Music]
um from July to January this has been excused twice. I had yes in
August, November. Um, Angie was excused in November. I was excused in [Music] October. Yet was excused in
August. Michelle. Yeah, the show was excused in July and today is here. Yeah. Um cuz those are the reimbursements. So that would be
125. Okay. So it's one, two, you did it six times already. Yeah. So that's six. Um the show is July and today.
Yeah. Um Maria logos was August. We already did those. So you did those already. So where am I counting from? October. Give me the names again. And you said
August and December was August. I have ever Well, listen July, but you want August and October and August was Yianis. I have for August. For the month of
August, I have Emma, Yet, Maria, and K. In October, I have K.
Yes. In November, I have Emma and Angie. And today I have Yes. Yeah. Okay. What's that? How much you say? 11.
11.25. And that's from [Music] reimbursements. there for a while. [Music] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, here's the situation. If
we don't move money today, then it will have to be moved in February or we will have to have a special meeting to move those. Okay, look. I got November here. Please say August.
[Music] Okay, Lauren, I just I don't know if you have it, but we were just going down the line in regards to um money being moved for [Music]
tonight. And um you want the exact uh I know it's a date in February. You want the exact date? Yeah. Okay, give me a second. Let me look through my my emails. But it is at the I think it's the end of February. I'm
going to give you an exact date. [Music] We'll be and we're moving um that reimbursements [Applause] parent
engagement that stuff correct the sprite [Music] We did not move any money in December because Emma was not prepared. [Music] Correct. Correct. Correct. You're right.
Um yeah, we had a special discussion. [Music] Brenita, can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. Budget modifications have to be in by February
23rd. So, we would have to do it before the next meeting. Oh, okay. So, we do have time. Yes. And no, we will have to do a special meeting in person to move that before the 23rd. Also, I don't um the system slows down
everybody. So, if that system slows down and won't let me in, I can't put it in. So, I think you guys should do it before then. I I would like to say this since there are some a little bit discrepancies. Can we be all in
agreement in this discussion to um at least move $1,000 into re into parent engagement from reimbursement? [Music] Um, Lauren, are you still watching? Someone
I'm here. Um, uh, who are we covering for the last two I think schools? And I didn't hear you. Can you say that again? Are we covered for the food
reimbursement at the end of June? Reimbursement as far as um your member reimbursements? Yes. Food? No. No. Money needs to be moved into the food um line.
I'm sorry. I couldn't hear. You said money what money needs to be moved until the food line. Oh, it does. Okay. Yes. Reimbursements, member reimbursements are fine. You guys don't have to touch that. But the food line needs money
because I think you guys have uh I think 400 left. I think we said, Emma, we need to move in. Okay. And that covers what? The next three two or three meetings.
Two meetings. Two meetings. Yes. That only covers two meetings. 200 or 235. [Music] So with classif Uh, give me a second. [Music]
Correct. So, I make a motion to move $500 from reimbursements to parent engagement and $500 from reimbursements to [Music] [Music] second. So we $1,000 now.
Yes. Everyone in yes. [Music] Okay. Okay. Call your name. Y'all say y your name. Can you repeat what we're moving? Yes.
Yes, please. We're moving $500 for reimbursements to parents engagement and $500 for food. Oh, no. $500 from reimbursements to food. So $1,000 total is coming out of reimbursements and we're splitting it
500 for food. [Music] Great. Okay. Am I Angie? Yes. Okay. Ireina, yes.
Yet. Erica, yes. Brenita, yes. Amy, yes. Maria, Kate, yes. Wonderful. One
band. move from reimbursements 500 into 500 into food and another 500 into parent engagement. Wonderful. Okay. Next. Um Emma, are you content? Yes, I'm
happy. Very good. Yes. I just want to quickly state that um we all know about the town hall. Please be advised of all the upcoming meetings and check in with Nicole Leon. She's going to keep us
updated. I'm sorry I didn't introduce you to everybody that was here. Please forgive me. You did it yourself. Thank you so much. Thank you Charisma for also being here and helping our parents. Um, I just
want to also quickly that Lauren and I was working on the spring fling and the spring fling. Once this town hall meeting is done, we can move to the spring flame in March and I have
proposals of the date. You can speak more about that at the 22525 meeting date and the invoices for those already allocated. So be on the
money. We just need to work on the program. We just going to keep the same benefits for that that we was going to do for Winterfest. And I also want to say that um we might have some money left over um
to do probably one more and I want um GO to help me or help us spearhead that. Um, I'm trying to figure out to do a father that's a father day kind of event with
the kids. So, um, that's something we could talk later down. Um, cuz I I want us to do something for the dads in the community. on the dead figures. Correct. Correct. Yes. Correct. Correct. Comment. See, he
has something to say. [Music] So we've been working actually has been um thinking about it um has he did a he did a survey to parents well to follow um about and this is perfectly
because um it's perfectly because he said that he actually came up with domino tournament and even if mother to join was good but he said that [Music] Okay, if everybody is content with our
meeting, our next checkin will be with face in February. Don't forget the DT meeting also in February, February 6. And someone please make a motion to
adjourn. Okay, it's 9:20 p.m. Amy's time is the motion. The second step that motion [Music] and Emma Alana second that motion. Thank you so much everyone online. Thank you Lauren. Thank you Maria. Thank you
Nicole. Thank you Carissa. Thank you superintendent. Thank you PS81. Good night.