We have Nora coming in. Good evening everyone. Uh if you're just joining us, we are um welcome to our June President's Council meeting and election. If you are able, please um rename yourselves to include your schools DBN. This way we know how many
schools are representing and when it comes to voting be it um during our PAP president's council election we want to make sure it's one vote per school. So please rename yourself to include the school DBN. It is now 6 o'clock 6:34 and
we're going to begin our uh president's council meeting. I'm going to share my screen. Okay. Rachel and I'm going to give the floor to Rachel. >> Okay. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the last meeting of the 2025 2026
um President's Council. Um we will be having our elections tonight. Um just a reminder that um those that are departing will be the voting members um and those that are coming in will be the ones that are
eligible for election. So first I will turn it over to our recording secretary Charlotte for approval of the May meeting minutes. >> Thank you so much Rachel. Welcome everybody. Um just a review of the minutes from May's meeting is May 18th and we'll go over it really quickly.
After the approval of April, April's meeting minutes, uh Dr. Dantona uh did a lot lot of different things. He talked about districts um and talked about community connection activities. There's a Memorial Day themed community building discussion. Um we talked about celebrations and
recognitions. There were several for that month uh such as Jewish American Heritage Month, AAPI, uh Military Appreciation Month, there's Teacher Appreciation Week, National School Nurse Week, Mother's Day as well. Um and then he recapped the District 25 wellness day
that happened. There's more than 400 attendees who participated. Um there's a whole slew of local organizations, healthcare providers, and vendors that were also there. Um and the families received different resources. There was raffles and giveaways. Activities included sports, uh, programming, uh,
wellness programming and family engagement opportunities. And he expressed his appreciation for everyone that was involved. Um, also discussed save for college initiative uh, such as district particip participation goals uh, remain at 50%. They he had just
released a Star Wars themed uh, campaign for D25, the future fund awakens. um and that the school with the highest number of account activations by the end of May would receive a school celebration. Also went over um discussed about the uh how
participation uh Joe an uh asked whe the participation impacted existing 529 plans and Dr. Danton confirmed that it does not affect those uh accounts. Uh another topic was arts and community activities such as moving as a community which highlighted dance and movement
activities um as a community building through an arts uh initiative. Um there were several sessions that happened in June in various schools regarding academic and assessment updates. We talked about diagnostic assessments and that the end of the year
assessments uh occurred on June 12th and the assessments included a cadence reading, I ready reading and math as well as map growth assessments for grade 8. uh AI framework was also discussed um that which closed in on May 8th the feedback window
and um the community and families are encouraged to discuss again AI's responsible use and its role in education and in general um how uh it affects our lives. Some other priorities and goals for 2026 and 27 were also
discussed such as literacy priorities talking about talked about um building academic language development, refining MTSS practices and mathematics priorities included strengthening mathematical thinking and problem solving, a district-wide implementation
of amplified desmos math beginning which which begins sorry begins in September 2026. also emphasized collaboration with SLT staff uh SLT teams, staff and and families regarding his priorities and to try and encourage that in the students
and framework. Um another initiative that has been discussed is a portrait of a graduate and again Dr. Daytona outlined the uh key areas uh for this initiative such as future vision of the high school graduate requirements, expanded student
experiences such as capstone projects, a lot of CTE internships um and a one diploma model um and how transitions from the current which is a regions type advanced regions type as well as local diploma. Um there's a proposed timeline
that was discussed for the uh next few years and the classes moving forward. Um and also noted that the current fifth grade students would likely be the first cohort that was fully impacted by these uh new guidelines and initiatives.
Another topic was discussion of parent engagement SLT communication. Um and Veronica our our co-president asked about how it would uh how this information regarding these init this initiative would be shared with families
in SLT uh in the future. Um so such things were discussed as family parent friendly presentations parent feedback using that as an opportunity to uh produce more meaningful work. Um and Dr. Dantona also responded to say that these
recommendations and presentation materials would be provided to the SLTs that there be future trainings that would include um presentations about this initiative as well. Another discussion was about vaping prevention initiative and this was shared by uh our
co-president Veronica from recent CPAC meeting. Um currently there's no district-wide mandate regarding vaping. Um there are vaping prevention resources available currently especially for middle schools. Um and there'll be other uh it remains a
priority um for some rising program uh updates. Lewis Latito talked about the different timelines that have occurred um clarifications about the application process talked reviewed the uh priority groups
and then uh talked about how lottery placement occurred. uh talk about middle school priorities and weight list procedures that occurred. Um he also provided a calendar overview uh general overview of the calendar, program hours and program
components as well as transportation updates. Uh he outlined very detailed for different types of students about uh what kind of accommodations were available to them. Uh talked about ride share services.
Um other things included um how families had to arrange rides directly through a provider. A trusted adult had to accompany the child during ride share trips. And overall the summarizing logistics um the parent coordinator be available
throughout the summer to assist these families with any changes. Uh for pertinent for today as well as PTA elections and transfer of records. Um, our co-president Veronica reviewed the timeline and transfer records procedure as well as the required
signatures for the outgoing incoming officers as well as the school principal when the transfer records occurred. And just a reminder that financial reports are due June 30th. They must match back bank statements. They must be signed by the PTA president and treasurer as well as it has to be submitted to the
principal. and that the outgoing executive board their responsibility especially for the last uh PTA meeting is to uh present a proposed budget as well as a fundraising plan for the next school year. Um let's see uh and our other
co-president Rachel reminded us that it would be re it would be presented approved in the June meeting but would then be reviewed again in September. Uh we talked about the PTA link CEC DPAC and president council updates such as office hours when the next meetings
would be some of them have already occurred in the past and the meeting adjourned at 8:09. Those are the general updates for the last minutes that were presented in May. And can uh do we approve these minutes?
I make a motion to approve. >> Thank you. And anyone else in another motion needed? >> Would anyone else else like to approve the minutes or is there would anyone like to discuss the minutes or any clarification? >> A second to approve.
>> Thank you. Okay. Minutes have been approved. and Rachel, back to you. >> Thank you, Charlotte, and thank you everyone for um your contributions to last month's meeting. So, for this
month, next on the agenda is Dr. Mike's report. Turn it over to you, Dr. Mike. >> Awesome. Thank you, Rachel. Welcome everyone. uh for all of our current um President's Council presidents and for those that are going to be assuming the
role um upcoming. Um one, thank you for those that have served. Um we really truly appreciate all that you do for our schools. Um and for those that are incoming, I really appreciate you guys taking the opportunity to step up uh and
serve in these roles. They're really super important for our kids and for our district community. So, uh, before we even start, I just want to give a big shout out to all of you for, um, you know, for for the vital role that you play in helping shape what we do in our
schools. So, welcome to all of you and more importantly, thank you um for for being there for our kids and for our school communities. So, a few things to go over uh with you. Just a little bit of a of a data update. You know, we have
now finished the all of our assessments. So, we do have a little bit of a snapshot to share with you. So, you have an idea of how we how we perform this year at least through the lens of I Ready and uh Acadians. So, I'll give you a little bit of a snapshot there. Um and um as well for for reading and
mathematics and kind of where it brings us toward towards in terms of next steps. Uh but before we do that, for all of our Nick fans out there, I'm hoping that you guys are some of them. uh you know big shout out to the Knicks for what it is that they had done and I had
been sharing to um you know with our with our staff that you know it's really really interesting to me how you know moments like this really galvanize a collective community and uh have the ability to bring people together and um
I think it's a it's a really important way for us to to be able to connect with kids to be able to connect with those that are really honestly just walking down the street the other day. I had a a Nick shirt on and just random people are just saying, "Oh, let's go Knicks." You know, just some small ways of being able
to bring us together. It's it's really interesting to me, unfortunately, that we we have to wait for for moments that we have around us to be able to to show that kind of connectivity, but um it does also show that we have the capacity to do that at any given time. And it's
something that I really think is important for us to be able to continue to share with kids. um and and how we should that you know we should take these moments to really connect with one another and aside from that just on a personal note my dad was a huge sports
fan huge sports fan and uh because of that I grew up sports constantly around me loved playing I loved watching and just the the opportunity to now do that with my own son and sit and enjoy each of the games we were actually glued with one another together on the couch
watching every single game and it became became a really really great experience for for me and I'm hoping that um you know in some way shape or form whether you were a sports fan or not you were able to connect with your own children in some small way during uh this amazing
sports run that uh the Knicks were able to to go on and not only fortunate enough there we have the United States soccer team that is now off and running in a really positive way in the World Cup. So, there's always things that can galvanize us and I'm hoping we take advantage of them as collective
communities. Um, this is um Pride Month as well as Caribbean-American Heritage Month. So, shout out to our communities across the city. Uh, you know, recognizing both of these groups um certainly across the
city, but here in district 25 as well. Um, few things to celebrate. I'm not sure. I'm hoping all of you guys are aware of this, but district 25 is one of four districts in New York City uh that participate in the unified botchi league. Um so schools across district 25
participate. Uh it's primarily our middle schools that that engage in this and it's for our uh non-neurotypical uh learners as well as our neurotypical learners engage in sport. Um, in this particular case it is Botchi and we got
an opportunity to compete against District 9 and District 26. Um, just most recently in late May and you'll see me a picture of myself there. I did take a good run at it with uh, Superintendent Sherman from District 9. Uh, I got to
tell you did not do very well on that first go round, but I did put put in my best effort. Big fan of Botchi, by the way. Uh but was really amazing, there was a parent there that said um that sometimes for her the idea of being able to cheer for her child in sports is
limited. And this was the first experience that she had an opportunity to do that. And that to me is a huge huge win for for this type of an experience and something we're going to continue to push and um and support. It
is al in alignment with uh New York Special Olympics uh that partners with that we partner with rather um and it's uh it's something that's that's unique and special to our district and I wanted to make sure that you guys were aware that we do that. Uh we also held our youth leadership team summit at Adelfi
University. So, we took uh a good 10 or so students from each of our uh middle schools to Adelfi University where they were able to re uh connect with um athletes from uh their PE majors club. And so, such a cool experience uh for
the kids. They got a tour of of Adelfi um as well as learned a variety of different leadership activities that they can bring back to their schools. Um, but what was so amazing to me that the the in this middle image here, you'll see each of those um those folks
on the image I just highlighted, those are four four former athletes from Adelfi University. And you would think that they were professional stars the way that the kids looked at them. They had their baseballs. They were asking for autographs. they were connecting with each of these athletes in their own
way and learned some really important lessons um from them as well as from our um from our team who brought them through a variety of different activities. So big shout out to Diana, Melinda and Wink from our team for organizing this and creating opportunity
for our learners as well as Adelf University for opening their doors. Uh it was really really a great experience. Uh we had our debate league competition. Uh big shout out to all of our schools for participating. Uh particularly JHS
185 for finishing in first place for the middle school group and for PS32 for finishing first in our elementary sweep stakes. Uh so big shout out to all of them. This continues to expand. Would love for as many of our schools to participate in this in the future. Uh
big thanks to American Debate League and Richard Connelly, the um uh the uh the organizer from the debate league as well as council member Paladino for sponsoring this every year for us. We were also fortunate that we were recognized by Character.org particular
or particularly PS22 uh for the take action projects that they have organized and they were they were noted in Character.org or I don't know why I'm not having a hard time saying org but character.org or uh for the work that they put in to come together as a
community to to do some really promising work uh including one of the more meaningful ones of having a traffic light put right outside of their building because a child was hit by a car. Um so big shout out to PS22 in their ongoing efforts for civics. Um, we
had a variety of different athletics programs this year, uh, including baseball, flag football, um, girls, uh, specific leagues in in, um, um, across the district. So, really, really great work by by Diana and our team, something
we're going to continue to grow with over time. We've also held in collaboration with our community education council a variety of different um, events. Some of the most recent ones we partnered with Together in Dance uh to bring the arts
into our district. Um for those of you who are new to this call, um we had about $80,000 that was given to the district to support arts work across our schools. So we did um provide residency opportunities for some of our schools
that do not have a lot of funding. And then the the rest of it in collaboration with the CEC, we decided to uh create some community- based activities and events. Um so with together and dance, you can see here in some of the images, we brought families and kids together where they were learning to dance and
engage in creative dance together. Um multiple evenings we did at 165, 22, 242, and 193. Uh each of those events was uh very wellreceived as well as a session we did at the prek center which was really a lot of fun to watch four-year-olds engage in creative
movement. Um so that was really really great. Hoping to receive similar funding next year and we'll tap into all of you in the fall hopefully when I learn if we receive it for some recommendations things that you would love to see. Um, for me, I think it's a great opportunity to bring us together as community
members, and I'm hoping to do the same next year with some of your feedback. Upcoming, we have um a session um with the um Juanera and the Sambuka tribe. Uh this is a really amazing experience where it's interactive with community
and the uh and the artists. uh bringing us through an experience around um Caribbean American uh dance and um and music. So we do have another session coming up at 193 tomorrow evening and we
also have Mexico Beyond Mariachi uh with uh at PS1 129. So if you are interested, please uh feel free to register. Uh always looking for our families to participate. So, those are just some updates around some of the events that are going on here in the district. Now,
bringing you through just a brief little summary of where we're going into for um for next year and our work as a collective district. So this year uh we had a focus on knowledge of standards, knowledge of students, knowledge of resources as kind of the backdrop of our
professional learning and the work we wanted to improve upon so that our students were receiving uh the best instruction possible to help them meet their learning needs. Uh we're going to have a similar uh mindset going into next year and you'll see see the
specifics around that in just a moment. So part of that is around talking about the current state of our reading goal and where it's bringing us into next year. So I shared a little bit about this during our last month's president's council, but I want to give you a little bit of data to support where it is, uh,
why it is that we've landed where we've landed. So um, as you know, as a district, I'm always talking about current reality. I'm a big fan of Peter Sen and part of his work as a management theorist was always talking about here's where we are right now and knowing where we are right now to be able to make
decisions for the future. So before I do that I just want to give a couple of school shoutouts that had what we call the highest median progress for uh for the given grade levels. And what that means is every student to make
typical growth would be 100% for the year. So if a student made 100% typical growth, that means they made one year's worth of progress. The vast majority of of our students surpassed that 100% typical growth. The
schools with the highest median uh for grade three was PS 107 and 169. Big shout out to them. Uh PS499, PSMS499 for grade 4. Uh PS214 for grade 5.
JHS 194 for grades six and eight and 189 and PSMS 164 for grade seven. So big shout out to them for all their hard work. Um this school year we also um for the first time um as a
district managed to get over 60% of our kids in kindergarten, first and second grade uh to be meeting or exceeding standards when it comes to the Acadians assessment. So this is the first time that we managed to do that. We've done it in one grade or another grade. This
year all three grades were over 60% which is uh a really good thing for our youngest of learners at kindergarten, first and second grade. You'll see what happened here also with our some of our targeted subgroups. Granted, we still have a long way to go, but I do like the progression. The progression is pointing
in the positive and not the negative. You'll see two years ago our multilingual learners were at 19% proficiency in the cadence for kindergarten, first and second grade. that that same subgroup of learners is now at 41% which shows that we are making progress for some of our most
needy of language learners. Um and similarly we have seen some progress for our students with IEPs as well uh for our children in K1 and two. When it comes to I Ready we are seeing very similar results as we saw last
year. We've seen small improvements for our children when we're comparing last year's students to this year's learners. Grades 3, 4, 7, and 8 saw some progress compared to the previous year. We did see a little bit of a dip for grade five, current grade five learners as
compared to last year. And grade six leveled off around the same rate as where we were in previous years. Um, so we'll see what what that translates into in terms of the New York State assessments. Uh but I do anticipate that we're going to see a little bit of
growth compared to last year based on this year's data. Um we tend to perform higher than what IRA does indicate. So I'm hoping for a similar trend uh this year as well. So what does this mean overall? And what
we've what we've done is kind of organized the data into the three uh into the six buckets that is provided by I Ready. And what you'll see here is the foundational skills on the left and the meaning-making skills on the right. And when we go across grade bands,
kindergarten through 2 grade, 3 to 5, and 6 to 8, what you'll wind up seeing is a a pretty clear pattern that our foundational skills are at a higher level than what our
meaning making skills are. those comprehension based skills, the vocabulary, the uh comprehension offormational text, the comprehension of literature, you'll see that trend starting in K to2 and then when you get to 3 to 5, you'll
see a similar type of trend for our for our children. The foundational skills are improving. However, the meaning-making skills are not necessarily growing at that same rate, particularly for our multilingual learners and our students with IEPs.
Those are two areas that we know that we still have to do a tremendous amount of work for. And when you look at children that are without that are do not have a multilingual learner status or an IEP status, those particular children are are doing are performing at different
rates comparatively speaking and those rates at a higher performance rate than their peers. So we do have a lot more work that we have to do in this particular bucket which is why you'll see in a moment why we're landing on meaning making as an area for improvement as a district. Now, when you
get to grades 6 through 8, um, our all student subgroup, you'll see that the performance of our learners in those phonics and high frequency word skills is far surpasses that space of that meaning making um, in those meaning-making areas, which says that
while we're improving our kids ability to decode, reading across the page is still an area that and holding on to that information is still an area that we need to improve upon. So because we're seeing that pattern from K to2 2 3
to 5 2 6 to 8 we know that we have to do a lot more work uh in these areas that building of background knowledge that strong building that strong uh spaces of vocabulary the understanding of complex language creating time and space for our
kids to make sure that they're discussing and analyzing the text that they're reading and also in creating you know more time and space uh for us to be able to write about the ideas that they're that they're discovering from the text that they're reading. So data
reflects that kids can decode, but we know that decoding alone does not produce um strong readers. We have to be able to make sure that we're doing both inside of that space in alignment with the science of reading. Uh so more to follow on that and similar types of patterns in 6 to8. You'll see a similar
context here as what I just shared for K through 5. Now, where does that align in New York City? These are the three buckets which you'll see very similar context to what we're talking about at the district level. Um, the idea is that making sure
that our kids eyes are on text that that we're we're making sure that not only are we modeling through the text, but our kids are having consistent opportunities to read and navigate grade level text um to help build that deep comprehension. We know that fluency is
really, really super important. And I don't know about you, but there are times certainly as an adult that um I find myself reading the same exact paragraph a couple of times cuz my attention is not as focused as it needs to be on the words on the page and I have to go and reread. And the same
thing happens for some of our struggling readers when they read across the page. Sometimes whatever they read is not necessarily being held on to. So we need to work a little bit more on uh building that uh that fluency for our learners as much as the comprehension and then also making sure that our
interventions uh are helping meet the needs of our learners uh that are really in that space of performing outside of what I call that sphere of success. They're still struggling as readers. So that extra MTSS, those tier 2 and three supports are things that we're going to
build over time. So what does that mean? Uh for us the goals I've already shared with you. I talked about them during our last last meeting. So I'm not going to spend too much time talking about this, but it is about continuing to build our foundational literacy skills, but also
making sure side by side we're building that meaning for our learners inside of our classrooms so that we're impacting and uh reducing those opportunity gaps that exist within the context of our targeted groups of learners. Um, and ways that we're going
to be paying attention to and what you can expect moving forward is ongoing capacity building around explicit instruction across the district. The use of a protocol called the know and show. It helps with planning, supporting the use of the strategic resources that we have particularly
within the teaching pal. Teaching pal is a tool within the HMH curriculum. It helps us organize and plan. Uh, revisiting what we call the learning maps. So, as a district, we've organized learning maps to help our teachers plan. Uh, we want to reorganize those so that we're really promoting meaning making
within those contexts, supporting walkthroughs and coaching and professional learning. We do want to make sure that we're also embedding the the use of the REACH program that's from National Geographic. That's particularly for our students that are multilingual learners that are
entering and emerging. That will be rolled out across our district schools next year. um leveraging the hidden voices and the black studies curriculum. So you'll see in a goal in a few moments where I'm referencing that, but super important that we're doing that. We're going to be re we're going to be uh
engaging in a summer HM pilot for three of our summer rising schools where we're embedding some of these uh some of these newly um set expectations uh inside of those classrooms so that we can learn from it and build towards the start of the school year. again using HMH
modules. So, it's not something outside of what the kids would be would be doing, but there are modules that the kids haven't experienced yet. So, we're looking forward to that. Uh creating summer opportunities for planning. Um and then gathering feedback from community members on an ongoing
basis um is our intent to support improved outcomes. For priority two, this I mentioned to you last time, so I'm not going to spend too much time on it this time. Uh but this is for our students with SEAL. are currently completing the final SEAL
survey of the year that's happening now. Uh we're hoping to have that complete by the end of the week. Uh so this is data from the beginning from the middle of the year. But what we did learn these are some key questions that the students uh responded to this idea of
having that um space of mutual respect among peers um needs to improve. There's just no no ifs, ands or buts about that. That's something that we need to improve. And we also know that the self-regulation skills need to improve as a district as well. Uh this is coming
from the mouths of our learners. So more to follow on that in terms of our action steps, but this is what we learned thus far. We're going to see what the endear survey says uh as to whether or not we have to make even different adjustments from uh the latest student perceptions.
Uh but that is what is most up to date there. Uh for mathematics priority 3. Um, big shout outs again PS1 169 and 244 for grade three had the highest median typical growth. Um, shout out to 24 29
and 2011 for their work in grade 4. Uh, 24 in grade 5, PSMS 499 in grade 6, 189 in grade 7, and MS 379 in grade 8. Uh so big shout out to uh to those schools with the highest median uh growth.
Uh in terms of math outcomes, it is similar to last year. We are seeing some pos positive momentum for our L's and particularly grades 3, 4, and seven. Uh you will not see grade 8 on there cuz we're still organizing our eighth grade
uh algebra regent um map assessment data. Uh but we are seeing some similar types of some trends. Uh grade three had the biggest change from around 49% from previous year to 61% now. Uh about a 4%
change for grade four. Um and then the other grades 4% lower than the previous year and 1% lower in grade six, 1% higher in grade 7. So I do anticipate we're going to see some progress um for the um for New York State assessment
results. Time will tell, but I do think that we will see some some growth from where we are last year just based on um prior years I Ready results and output uh to where we are now. Now what have we learned? We we we see that across these four areas and these
are the four buckets from I Ready numbers and operations, algebraic thinking, measurement and data and geometry. And the the area where we have the highest performance is in numbers and operations and algebraic thinking. And the other two measurement and data
geometry become those spaces where the the cognitive demand is a little bit more increased. The things spatially are a little bit different for kids. Um, so we know that these are areas that we want to to really pay attention to, particularly as we implement the Amplify
Mathematics curriculum going into next year. We have teachers from across all of our schools um particularly in our elementary schools right now from kindergarten through fifth grade are going through training sessions right now uh in preparation for implementation
in the fall uh which I am uh really excited about. I think that the Amplify curriculum does offer a number of really good opportunities for us to grow as a district in math instruction. And you'll see similar similar here to our previous
uh per previous slides, but mathematics, we are at an elevated rate overall performance-wise when we're talking about L's and our students with IEPs um comparatively speaking to what it's like in reading. And there is that that universal um space of mathematics that
goes cross um cross language you know so there is some some alignment there but when things start getting into a space of you know going beyond just the algorithm and having to read through some of these things we are seeing some of those gaps in mathematics
particularly for our multilingual learners uh in grades 3 to five as well as in the upper grades eight not necessarily as represented here as I mentioned before uh but our general ed uh population is performing at um at
higher rates than our other groups. So we do know that we have more work to do there to improve uh particularly with our targeted subgroups and I do believe that the amplified curriculum will support it. That's I do not believe in in program being the only answer but I do think that it will help support build
cohesiveness across our schools so we can do more learning and make more improvements for the outcomes for our kids. So cohort uh professional learning will be ongoing. There will be uh job embedded coaching that exists for all of our schools that are implementing the amplify curriculum which is everyone. Uh
so they will be getting coaching support from the Amplify Desmos um program itself. So we have staff developers that'll be coming into all of our schools. We're going to be using a protocol called do the math so that our teachers and our building leaders really dig into the mathematics to get a deep
understanding as to what's necessary for our kids to really make sense of the problems and really becoming problem solvers. We will be opening up opportunities over the summer for for um for our staff to come in and engage in professional learning. Um and that PL will be ongoing
through the year um as well. Priority four, uh, this we're g it's going to be ongoing the civics work. I think it's been great. Um, I feel like we still have more, uh, that we need to do here to really create authentic experiences for our kids. Uh, but our
kids are getting more and more into this. And I'm not sure if you saw the little video that was sent out by me with Jake um, from the district. The the goal is that we continue to amplify the voices of our learners um, through this space. and my feeling is we're going to
only continue to grow because of it. Um so more to follow on that. Um safer college, we have made improvements. Uh the goal was to get to 50% overall. Uh these numbers, they haven't been updated from the central team yet, but I think we're probably around 45% now, which
means we would be up about 6% from last year to this year. The goal is to get to 10. Uh we still have a couple of weeks left to hopefully do that last ditch push for our learners to to have access to these funds. Um we are around 57% for
our fourth grade. So again, we're not really we didn't meet the target. The hope is that we can continue to push over the last couple of weeks to get as many families interested in activating their accounts as possible. Our schools continue to to offer it. Um unfortunately, we have not been as
successful. um you know ensuring that people activate those accounts. But we're going to continue to try over the course of the next two weeks and encourage you if you're meeting with any families that are in K through 4 um encourage them to to get more information. I know sometimes they
that you know families might look at that and could be that too good to be true scenario. Uh but it is available. We want to continue to push it. So moving forward into next year the goals for us will remain consistent. We want to really push this idea of civics for
all lessons, the minimum of 10 across all of our classrooms that our kids do have that opportunity to engage in project soap box and take action projects uh with the goal of promoting that one point towards a seal for civic readiness for our kids. This really does align with um the portrait of a graduate
work and we're going to continue to push it as a district. Uh we have identified grades four and seven uh for the integration of uh some of the resources from hidden voices and the black studies curriculum uh to see where one aligns with the passport for social studies
curriculum but also the HMH program to ensure that we're being culturally responsive inside of our work. Uh so more to follow on that. That is just an initial draft goal that we're we're hoping to solidify over the coming weeks. Um and then the safer college
will cons continue to sustain uh our efforts in that space. And then lastly, chronic absenteeism. Um we have seen a little bit of improvement over the since the last last I spoke to you. We were at 18.5% or so.
Now we're at around 17.2%. Um we are at 94.1% still. Overall, the percentage of children that's that are chronically out is still significant. It's 3950 children. That is a lot of kids that are not in school for the uh
more than the the 90% of the school year. So, we have to continue to work on this and continue to support our families as best we can. Um so that our kids are in school every day. There is a 20% difference and I continue to say this 20% difference between kids that are in school and their performance
versus children that are chronically out in their performance. So, uh we're going to continue to work on this as teams and continue to do that outreach to our families to improve this moving forward. And the last thing I want to tell everyone about uh district 25 is part of
a uh citywide pilot. Uh we were identified to create a planning committee which we have two folks that are on uh this call that were uh identified to support. So Veronica has agreed, thank you Veronica um as well as
Rachel have agreed to participate in this pilot. And basically what it means is it going to give us it's going to give us an opportunity to identify a problem of practice as a district community particularly around things like lowenrolled schools uh things around
class size and really putting our heads together around the best ways to support that as a district community. Uh so the kickoff event for that will be on Wednesday. looking forward to hearing our chancellor talk a little bit about it uh as a collective group and then we'll start organizing ourselves in ways
that we can can help support this as a district community and I'm really really looking forward to this. There will be parents on here, there will be teachers on here, there will be administrators on here and there will be district staff on here uh to support this pilot. and we'll be able to communicate back out to you
during President's Council meetings in the future so you know what we've been working on and um you know feedback that you may have. But that concludes uh where I am at for my presentation. I know I said a lot in a short period of time because you have your elections but
if you have questions I'd be happy to answer them as well. >> Thank you so much Dr. Mike. If anyone has questions, they can come off mute. Um, or you can put it in the chat. Um, and if you can't think of anything now, Dr. Mike usually sticks around, so you
can always um, address it at a later time. >> Yeah, 100%. >> Okay. So, I believe the next item on our agenda is our elections. So, let's um
move forward with electing the board for the 2026 2027 um school year. Can't believe 2025 2026 is coming to an end already. It's unbelievable. >> The summer is less
>> so crazy. >> Just two weeks away. >> Um Jenny, is Crystal available to do the elections or do you want me to do them? I see Crystal is here. Yes. Okay. Crystal is going to be our election chair tonight. So, um, so
President's Council election is for 2026 27 school year. So, may I have a motion to open the election? >> This is Rachel. I make motion. >> Can I have Can someone second uh second it? >> I second that, Jenny. >> Thank you so much. And I'm going to give
the floor to our um election chair Crystal Gonzalez who is also our depraure parent leader and a parent leader at PS20 PS 29. >> Crystal, >> good evening everyone. Uh welcome to
welcome to the um PTA elections. Thank you and welcome parents and guardians. Before we begin, we will verify each member to ensure they are a parent as stated in A660. Only parents of a student in a school
who are elig are are eligible to vote. >> Thank you, Crystal. Um, let me quickly share something. So, thank you so much. I can see that we have 15 schools representing tonight. So, thank you so much for being here. However, it's only one vote per school. And if you are running for the president's council,
make sure you are eligible. You have to be a PAP president or the destiny for your school. Thank you. >> Okay. Mandated presidents and council positions school year 2026 to 2027.
President's co-president recording secretary treasurer president co president of president's council 2026 through 2027. The duties of the president or co-presidents. The duties of the
president co-presidents include but are not limited to preside over all council meetings. Serve as an ex exopicial member of all committees accept the nominating committee. Appoint council committee chairpersons
with the approval of the executive board. Serve as a mand m mandatory member of the district leadership team DLT. Encourage meaningful participation in all parent and school activities. Provide opportunities for leadership
development among council members. Delegate responsibilities to council members as needed. Attend all regular meetings of the president's council. Meet regularly with executive board members. Plan agendas for general membership meetings.
may be responsible for maintaining the DOE issued email account. Assist with the June transfer of council records, including all pertinent user IDs and passwords to the
incoming executive board, serve as an as an authorized signatory on checks and dispersement forms if the council engages in fundraising activities. >> Thank you, Crystal. And these duties and responsibles are copied directly from
the president's council's bylaws. So, I'm going to stop sharing and open the floor for um nominations. I would like to nominate myself. This is Veronica. >> Thank you, Veronica. Do we have anyone else who want to
nominate themselves or run with Veronica as a co excuse me I would like you know to uh join the president council board as a call with Veronica. This is Shenan from junior high school 189.
Thank you, Shen. Clarissa, does Veronica agree to run as a code with Shen? >> Sure, of course. >> Thank you, >> Crystal. Should we give I'm going to start the one minute? Okay, Crystal, I'm
gonna Who do we We want to start with Veronica. Um Veronica, you can Okay, you can tell us about yourself. Sure. Let me know when I can start. >> Right now. >> Okay. Good evening everyone. Uh my name
is Veronica Peter Leon. I am the PTA president for PS165 and I have had the pleasure to serve as co-president with Rachel for president's council. I serve as a um delegate for the CPAC the chances um uh parent advisory committee.
Uh I strongly believe that and having experience been at CPAC and in you know experience in other spaces in parent leadership that together as a uniti a united group we can make a lot of diff a
lot of changes and create and improve many of the things that we're doing in our district for our children. I think at the end of the day, we all serve in our capacity as parent leaders because we believe that we can help our school communities and I think that we all
bring special skills. We all bring different experiences and I would love to contribute and continue to foster a community where we can share all of that >> as a group as a cohort. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Veronica. >> Clarissa Shen.
>> Yes, I'm here. I'm so sorry that it's not convenient for me to turn on the camera. Uh first of all, >> I'm going to start I'm going to start the timer right now. >> Okay. Uh I'm the president uh in Oh, I'm the PTA president in junior high school
189 Queens and I I'm I was also uh the recording secretary of our uh president council uh the year before last year. I think this is the year uh school year 2024 to 2025. I uh didn't you know join the election
last year but this year I would like you know to be back. So I hope that I could contribute you know my time and e efforts together with all your guys together and to serve our council. Thank you. >> All right. I'm gonna give the floor back
to you unless you if you need my support let me know. Crystal. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. I was talking, but you didn't hear me. >> Now I hear you. >> So now we're going to congratulate uh
>> Yeah. So the name so since they both agreed to run as a coate and there's no other parent leader who want to run against them we see that as an uncontested um >> um elections. So we can track I can't even say the word congratulations
Veronica and Clarissa for >> for for um becoming our president co-president of the president's council. Yes. >> Yeah. Thank you so much and also thank you for the instructions from the district. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. And I definitely want
to say thank you to Rachel. Rachel, we you have been amazing and thank you so much for all your leadership and all the support that you have given us this year. So, thank you so much. >> Yes, thank you Rachel. >> Yeah, thank you Rachel. I also appreciate all the work that you've done
last year and I would like you know to learn from you. So since you guys are running as a co you will guys have to dis discuss internally among yourself who will be attending the DT and who will be attending the CPAC meeting. >> Yes sure >> and then let me know so I can fill out
the certification form and turn it into central. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> All right I'm going to share this. >> Congratulations guys and Rachel. Thank you so much. >> Rachel rocks. Okay. I'm going to give the floor back
to um Crystal. >> Okay. Now we'll be voting uh now we're uh working on recording secretary of the president's council 2026 2027. The duties and responsibilities of the recording secretary are record the
minutes at all council meetings. Prepare notices, agendas, signin sheets, and materials for distribution. Prepare and read the minutes at council meetings. Distribute copies of the minutes for review and approval by the general membership. Maintain custody of the
council's records on school premises. Maintain a DOE issued email account. Incorporate all amendments into the bylaws. Ensure that signed copies of the bylaws include including the latest amendments are on file in the superintendent's
office. Review, maintain, and respond to correspondence address uh to the council as needed. Assist with the June transfer of council records, including all pertinent user IDs and passwords to the incoming executive board. Serve as an
eligible signatory on checks and dispersements forms in a council if the council engages in fundraising activities. >> Thank you, Crystal. And I'm going to stop sharing my screen and then we're going to open the floor. Um nomination
on from the floor. The sun I can't avoid the sun. Does anyone want to nominate themselves to become the recording secretary at the president's council and work closely with us, the district team, with Veronica, with Clarissa, with the
superintendent, Dr. Dona? Anyone? >> Uh, excuse me. May I be, you know, both the co-president and the recording secretary? >> You can't. You can't. You only hold one ro. >> Okay. I just want to help.
Thank you. Thank you. Any parent who wants to become our president, our recording secretary for the president's council? It's one-year term. All right. So, we're going to move on to
the next mandated position. I'm going to share my screen again. >> Crystal, I'm going to give the floor back to you. Treasurer of President's Council 2026 through 2027. Roles and responsibilities include but
are not are not limited to responsible for all financial procedures, affairs, and funds of the council. >> Anyone? Any parents? >> Oh, sorry, Crystal. >> Sorry. The floor is open for nominations of the treasurer.
Would anyone like to nominate nom nominate themselves for treasurer out of all three I we believe this is the easiest one. So please anyone and again we are here to support you. You are here to be working closely with us,
with Veronica, with Clarissa, with superintendent, with me, with Jessica, with the Dpack chair and alternate anyone. We really, may I say something? >> We really need to fill this positions,
right? This is not only at the work of one person. This is a community. So, one of the things that I really want to lift up is that you're not alone. We are all here to support and to work with one another and I really we really would love to have somebody to nominate
themselves to be to serve and be part of this of this new um eword. Thank you. >> Well said. Thank you so much Veronica. It is a teamwork and we are definitely here to support you every single day, every single minute. Anytime you need
us, we are here to support you. All right. I guess we'll try again in September, right, Crystal? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Let >> Sorry, I have a quick question. >> Yes. >> Designes can run, correct?
If you are the PAP tier president at your school or the destiny, yes, you are eligible to run if you and you are your school already have the election, right? And you will be um continuing as a parent executive board for next school year.
>> Yes. >> Yes. Yes. Glatty. Yes. >> I can nominate myself for treasurer. >> Yay. Thank you, Clatties. Anyone else who want to run against Clatties?
Going once, going twice. Congrat since this is a uncontested uh election. Congratulations, Clatties. You are now our treasurer of the president's council of 202627
school year. Yay. Thank you. Thank you for stepping up and thank you for running and thank you for willing to be working closely with us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Congrats and thanks so much.
>> Thank you so much, Cladis. Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna share my screen and I'm gonna give the floor back to Crystal. >> May the PTA PIPTA elections of 2026 be
adjourned. I have a motion for adjournment. >> This is Rachel. I make a motion to adjourn the elections. >> This is Charlotte. Yes, I agree as well. Thank you. And thank you Crystal for u
facilitating our election. We really appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you Crystal. >> And I'm going to give the floor back to Rachel, our current uh co-president of President's Council. >> Okay. Well, congratulations to um all of
our newly elected members for the 2026 2027 school year. Um we look forward to another successful year of supporting the district PATA presidents um in their work at our local schools.
So just next we have a few important reminders as we come to the end of the year but the year's not over just yet. Um it's for PAPAs we need to have in June a transfer of records meeting. Um
the principal should meet with both the outgoing and the incoming elect executive board to ensure a complete transposition of all PATC materials such as but not limited to bank account password
I should say debit cards. Um if note on the debit cards if the president or the person with the name on the debit card is changing the debit card should be destroyed and a new one should be obtained from the bank. Um turnover
checkbooks keys the EIN number and all official records because remember all records must be kept for a period of six years. So, the new board needs to know where to find those um documents, especially if they're electronic.
Um and the meeting needs to be held again with the principal and the principal and all the ingoing and outgoing um members must sign forms um to document the transfer of records meeting.
Also um from for for our treasurer um to remind them that the end of year financial report or the annual financial report um is due by June 30th. This is for the time period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026.
And it needs to be signed by the president and the treasurer and submitted to the principal. And it's very important that the ending balance match the bank statements for that time frame. And then lastly, the proposed budget
needs to be done by the outgoing um executive board and this actually needs to be done by the June PTA meeting. Um it then can be shared in September, but it needs to be presented to the membership at June at the June PTA
meeting, PATA meeting. and approved and then any adjustments or changes can be voted on at the first um general membership meeting in the new school year. And going back to the transfer of records real quick, um there was a
question last month as to whether if there are no changes to the board, if the same individuals are remaining on the executive board, is there a June transfer of records meeting? Um the communication from Faith, correct me if I'm wrong, Jenny, is that there should
still be a meeting. Um just to make sure that everybody has all the the relevant information. >> Okay. >> Right. Isn't that what Faith said? >> Should have a Yeah, we should every school should schedule a June meeting just for that purpose. Yes.
>> Even if they already have their PAP meetings, the required meetings, but they should still have one separate meeting just for that purpose. So I'll remind all the schools and we'll remind all the principles as well. Yeah. Next, these are upcoming meetings.
Um next CEC meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 1st. It's a in-person meetings for all CEC members, but there's a hybrid link where um our community will uh can listen in if you would like to, and the link can be found on our D25's website. The next DPACK
meeting is also the DPACK election. It will take place next Wednesday, June 24. This is where our schools are electing our DPACK chair and alternates. Um, DPACH chairs and alternates have two years terms versus our PAPA has one year
term. So, um, President's Council today is the last meeting and election. Uh we do not have any meeting scheduled for next year but we will be working on them with um with our newly elected parent leaders
Veronica Shen and Clattis and we will get back to you on those dates and it will also be posted on the D25's website. Now we're going to open the floor for any questions that may you may have. So feel free to unmute yourself and ask
your question or you can also put it in the chat if you prefer. I don't see anything in the chat. If there are no questions, then this is the end of the June meeting. So, one last chance to ask any questions that
you would have for um the school year. Okay. Then, can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Thank you. And can I get a second >> motion to adjurnn? >> Thank you. >> And I'm gonna stop recording.
>> So it's 7:37 and the meeting is officially adjourned.