And I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen. All right. Does everyone see my screen? >> Yes, it's >> coming up. Yeah. >> And please let me know if we meet the Chrome. Okay. We just need one more parent.
So, good evening everyone. Thank you so much for being here. Um, this is our March 31st meeting. Our agenda today is uh welcome everyone. We're going to try to approve our February meeting minutes, but if we do not meet the quorum, we're going to
table the meeting minutes for our next meeting. So, we're going to skip this for now. We'll we'll come back to it. And then we're going to go over the superintendent's report. Luis Lutito is here to teach us on how to do Google forms
and then um I will give some city pack updates to everyone and we will go over the NYC school survey which is one of the city pack updates and we will u mention some um share some upcoming meetings and open the floors for
questions. Oh, I was like, "Yes, I saw someone coming in, but it's our deputy." All right, so our meeting norms. Um, so usually Crystal is the one going over meeting norms, but Crystal couldn't be here today, unfortunately. So, we start
and end on time. One voice when speaking. This is a safe space to speak. One, two, three, and then me. If you spoke already, allow other people to speak before you speak again. We're here to respect everyone. We're here to be present, engaged, and involved.
Um, how many parents do we have on the call right now, Louis? Did anyone come in? >> No one came in. Still the same. >> I still see four. Yeah. >> Okay. So, we're going to table the minutes for the next month. Since we do not meet corum, we're going to skip this
part for now. And Dr. M will be joining us later. He is stuck in traffic. I know he's rushing. So, we're gonna have Lewis show us on how to um make Google Forms for now. So, Lewis, I'm gonna stop sharing. All right.
So, we're going to go over briefly just how um parents uh specifically can use um Google Forms to collect information and and really when you're thinking about this process, you know, and and
you may you may already know how to do this and use um this um this application, but um you know, anything that you would want to have to uh collect and organize um is a great way that you can use Google Forms. And it can be beyond just contact contact
information for families. Um for example, one thing that I was thinking about when um when preparing um for this presentation was about how uh the DPAC supports the principle with deciding how
to spend the 1% set aside. Um and there are different vendors that you might use uh that you might be able to spend that money on. And maybe a Google form is a good way of of surveying the families in the school around uh which of the vendors from this list they would like
you to that that they would choose to spend that that set aside on. So that's just one thing I was thinking about. And of course it could be something as simple as organizing a fundraiser or um you know uh you know who's going to pick up the kids from soccer. There's a
million ways that we can use Google Forms. So, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to share my second desktop over here. Go into slideshow mode. So, this is a really brief overview of Google Slides
and then after this we'll go into the application live and we can play around with different questions. Um, I'm basically going to stall as long as I need to for Dr. Mike. Um, so, you know, this is just a really quick overview of of Google Forms for busy
families. whether it be organizing for a class party or signups, you can organize that information really, really quickly. So, why should we use Google Forms? I know I already um uh kind of discussed this, but here are some of the big ideas to use in Google Forms. First, it's free
and it's easy. Um it's free for the person creating the form and it's free for someone that's uh completing the form. Um there's no apps to download. It works on the web and it works uh on any device. So, it is mobile friendly. It
works well on uh on smartphones, which I would say that most families are going to be using a a smartphone to complete the form. Uh but it also works great on on a desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet, all that stuff.
Um it automates everything for you. There's no more manually counting how many people selected some option, no tallying up selections. It is uh it does a lot of that work for you. Helps limit
um errors and just makes you know you have a lot more time on your hands because you don't have to do that all that manually. And most importantly, it is secure. the all the data um is encrypted and we always log in with our new New York City public schools account
because we have um a protected version of uh Google Docs um for education that uh we're we are allowed to use with personal identifying information PII. So, you always want to log into Google
with your um email address, your e your DOE external email address that was provided by um by your school. Um I I know I have lots of Google accounts. I have personal accounts. I have my work account. So, I always have to make sure I'm logged into the correct account when
I'm creating my Google Docs and my forms and stuff like that. Um so, let's quickly just go about how we would get started. So, the website to access Google Forms is forms.google.com. And again, you don't have to do anything right now with this. I'm going to go ahead and we'll log in later. And you
have a few options to start. You can start with either a blank form, which has no questions, no formatting or anything. You basically start from scratch, or you can choose from a template. And there are many, many, many templates to select from. And we're going to look at those in a moment.
There is a uh a template that when I was looking at at it uh called the party invite. It is um probably one of the most frequently used templates by parents. Even if it's not for a party, just the way that it's formatted and the
way it looks and we can go ahead and look at that as well. But that is one of uh the when I was looking online, one of the templates that parents use the most. So let's talk about building the perfect form and collecting the information that
you need. What questions will work for you? So the first thing I want to talk about is there are different question types when setting up a Google form. You don't only have to create questions where families have to type in information. Although you can collect
short answers or longer answers such as um you know a person's name um or email address someplace where they would type information. There's also uh questions such as check boxes, multiple choice uh radio button, drop- down menus, ranking
something from one to four. Um all these different types of questions exist and we're going to go uh and look at some of them in a moment. Um, there's also a really uh a really cool little toggle that lets you say which questions are
required and which questions um, Cindy E is here. Um, which questions are required and which questions uh, someone can skip. So, um, if there are certain questions that you need answers to, you won't want to toggle those questions as
required and so on and so forth. And then sometimes, you know, we'll have a question at the end that says like, "Oh, additional comments or questions." We would toggle the required uh off of that one because that might be something that someone doesn't need to respond to. And um there are lots of different ways
to customize these forms. You can change the color, uh put images on top. It's a lot of fun. You can really make it very personalized and um and unique. Each form can be very unique. So once we've created our form and we
have all the different questions that we want, we have to know how to share the form with families. So there's a couple of ways to do it. First is the easiest way is just to get the link um to the form. So you would go to share and you would go ahead and copy the link to the
form and you can send that to other parents through WhatsApp groups or on Facebook, however you guys communicate. Um, you can also click the link the but the check box to make the link shorter which is sometimes makes it easier to send over text messages that have
limited characters. And um there's also a feature to actually have a collaboration a collaborator. So this is not someone that can just complete the survey. This is actually someone who can help you with uh creating the questions, changing the um changing the uh the the
format and the look of the ser of the form and then also seeing the responses. So you might have multiple people on the on the DPAC or on a PTA for example that will have access as a collaborator who actually can make changes to the uh form
in the background. So those are different ways that we can share. Okay. Then let's talk about how we can get the results. So when we have responses on a on a form um you can see those responses
in a graph uh you know a pie chart to see the percentages of each response. You can also see if it's a a text box what the response was. But you can also go ahead and export or open up the responses into Google Sheets, which
basically will look like a spreadsheet with all the responses from all your families. And this is usually what you'll want to get when you're looking at the results from a survey. Uh if you're collecting, let's say, contact contact information or um different uh something that that uh each family is
bringing to a fundraiser, you know, you'll have that complete list in a spreadsheet. So, there's a summary tab, which we're going to look at that gives you summaries. Example, 60% said yes, 40% said no. Um, again, we can open up the sheet uh that opens up in Google
Sheets all the responses. And there's also a really cool feature where you can uh turn on email notifications. So, this will email you every time someone submits the ser the form so that you know you can go on and check to see what
the response was. Very, very handy. All right. So, here are some tips that uh I came up with when I was preparing for this presentation. Uh first is the feature that lets um that saves the the the draft of a survey
that a fam a parent is completing. So, sometimes we get sidetracked. We we you know, we get distracted by our children or by other people in the house as we're doing something and we sometimes have to come back to it later. So, if you have draft saving turned on, a person's a
family's responses will be saved the next time they come to the to the form to fill it out. Um, and that can be helpful for uh forms that are a little bit longer in length. Um, and the progress will be saved for 30 days and families won't lose their work. Um,
there's also a toggle to turn off accepting responses so that the form when you're done collecting information, you can actually shut it shut it off so that when families or or anyone goes to the the the link, it will say this form is no longer accepting responses. And
that's good for things that you're doing on a time frame and you don't, you know, after a certain point you're not looking at anymore, you would close those responses. And you always want to make sure that the sharing is um is set properly when you are sharing the link with families
to complete. Sometimes when we use our DOE uh our New York City public schools accounts, the uh sharing might be only to let people with other New York City public schools accounts complete the survey. And usually that's not what we want. We want to open up to the public. So you're going to want to make sure
that um all families can access it by um making it uh open to the entire internet. and we'll look at that as well. All right. So, this this uh these slides are on Oh, look. I have a little animation here and it's not in English.
Um this this these slides are in the Google Drive folder for today's meeting. So, you can go ahead later and access them and click these links. Um there's a quick guide for parents on Google forms. There's the link to Google forms and then there's a link to the support documents from Google which are very
very in-depth. Uh, I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing for a second and I'm going to click on Google Forms. All right, I'm going to start sharing again. Okay, so now we're looking at Google Forms. So, this is the website we spoke about,
forms.google.com. I'm going to go ahead and um first I'm going to show that I am logged in with my personal account. So, I'm going to go ahead and switch to my work account. And now I am here in my work account. And uh
what you'll see when you first go to the Google forms site is you're going to see a whole bunch of the forms that you have created in the past. So these are all of my forms. As you can see, I have a problem. I really like Google forms. Um and uh you can go ahead
and open any of those that you'd like. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. And on the top you have an option to start uh a new form. So you can start a blank form or you can select from a different template. So the template gallery here under general, these are all the templates available to us that we can
choose from. And they just kind of set you up with some questions depending on the type of form you're looking to create. So an event feedback form, for example, if your PTA is having an event and you afterwards you want to get feedback, you can go ahead and choose event feedback form and it kind of has
the questions uh set up for you that you can just customize those questions to to uh to match your your needs. uh customer feedback, event registration, very popular for uh for um PTAs and and for school groups that are having an event
uh to collect content information to RSVP for a um an event. All those things are here in the template gallery. I'm going to go ahead and open up a form that we Let's see.
So, here is a form. Let's see what I want to use. Oh, let's do the president's council signin. So, this is a form that we set up to collect uh the names of the people that attend each president's council meeting.
President's council meetings typically uh uh take place on the third Monday of every month. and they are virtual meetings via Zoom. So, um you'll see here that I've customized this form with these really cool polka dots on top
along with um this color, this brown color that matches the the image on top. You click the palette on the top of the screen and you can go ahead and change the different things such as the image and the different colors and stuff like that. You can do all that right over here. Um as I go down, you'll see I have
lots of different information here. I have the name of the the the form and then I have a bunch of different questions. First here is asking what meeting date did you attend and that is a date question which is one of the question types. I then have um what
school you're representing. This is a drop- down menu of all the schools in the district. We have the DBN followed by the school name to help families find their school. We also collect their the person's full name, their email address. Again, these are just text boxes where people can
type in responses. We then ask what their role is on a PATA because remember this is president's council. So, this is a a PAPA um a meeting of PAPA members. Um so, they go ahead and they're going to this is um they're going to choose from this list. They can choose just one
option, but I also have an other in case their role is not listed. And then optional information is phone number. just another text box. But notice that we do not have that required tab here checked off. So this is just how um different question types look. And if
you notice on the on the side here, my little control panel, I can go ahead and click plus. I can add different questions. We have multiple choice. Checkboxes or drop downs. Linear scale and ratings are kind of are some of my favorite newer questions that Google added.
So, um, how did you like this meeting? And you can choose, uh, a scale from either three stars to 10 stars. Um, five stars is the default. I'm not a fan of five because I feel like a lot of people
fall into that middle three category. So, I'm that guy that changes it to four stars so that I force you to choose between two and three. Was it better or was it worse? So, this is a really cool way to kind of capture this information. Again, you can make it required or not.
And um on the top here, you have the eye, which lets you preview the the form once you're finished or once you're playing around with it. And this is what it looks like. And here's what that question looks like with the stars, which is really cool. I really like it. It looks really cool.
Right. Then once you've collected responses, I'm going to go ahead and leave this. Um you'll notice on the top we have, you know, the questions tab is where we're actually building our form. And then responses here are answers to each question. So the meeting
date, all the different responses, what school are you from? This is what we get. We get like a pie chart here. Um and if you go around here, you can actually see the different schools and what percentage. Now remember, this form is used every
single month. So there's 950 responses. So this is a lot of data to look at. We have everyone's name. We have their email addresses. Everything you can read your PTA role. So you'll notice that most of the people that attend our meeting, this meeting is either the PTA
president or co-president. But we also have lots of other roles as well that attend, but the most majority are the president. And we have information here. So it's really good. So that's how we can act look at this information in the summary. We can also look at individual
questions. So we can just kind of go down this list and we can see individual question responses and we can look at actual individual uh you know um responses. So if I go to let's say it goes to 9:56 the very last
one. This one was done on 316 this last meeting and the Michelle uh was the person attending from Bell Academy which is very cool. And then if we go ahead and go into uh view and sheets right here, this is what
opens up that Google sheet view that we talked about. And I am logged in with my personal account. So, let me go ahead and switch over to that. And it says I don't have access to it. So, let me switch over to another
account. This account might be owned by somebody else. I have to look at that. But that's how you would look at the sheet at the sheets view at the the spreadsheet. And then when we go into settings, this is kind of all the settings that we talked about before. So, if we go into the um the form
defaults, you'll see here we're collecting an email address and um and uh responses. Um we talked about uh
uh response editing lets people change their responses. This requires them to have a Google account. So, typically we keep that off. And then we have um you know things such as uh autosave which we I talked about was handy for
longer forms. I turned it off for this one. Um since families are filling this out every month. I kind of didn't want it to remember last time's responses. So I I turned that feature off. And when we go to share it, if I click publish here, you'll see that um um it's set up for
everyone with the link to to respond to the survey. So there's no uh required login. Anyone with a link can can can respond. And if I click on copy responder link, this is the link to the survey that I would send to families. And this is the one that actually is posted on the President's Council
website. So uh you know, when it comes to building a form, it really helps to have a task that you want to complete. You know, it's very easy for someone to come and show you different questions and how to access the data. It's very easy to to
for someone to show you that stuff, but it doesn't become meaningful for you until you say, "I have a task that I need to complete using a a Google form." So, I will invite you guys to if you uh if you do have that task in mind of something that you would want to do with
Google Forms, definitely reach out to myself, to Jenny, to Jessica, who you haven't met yet, and um and uh we will be more than happy to meet with you one-on-one to kind of go through um exactly what you're looking to collect
and we can brainstorm what the questions would look like and stuff like that. So, uh, that is my brief overview of Google Forms. Jenny, was that good? You're muted. I know. I know you said amazing. All I saw your lips would say amazing.
>> You read my lips. Yes, >> I did. And I see Dr. Mike. So, thank God. Saved by the bell. >> It was great. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, guys. Yeah. Like I said, if there's anything like I if you if you have a task in mind that you want to accomplish and you just need to help uh uh you know, we more than happy to meet.
It won't take long to kind of get that information together and we can go online and we could do it together. >> I think the four stars thing was uh pretty >> Isn't that the best? >> Yes, >> they just added that question in. I love actually let me delete that question because that doesn't belong on that on that survey. >> Thank you for reminding me.
>> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you, Louis. So, we're gonna give the floor to Dr. Mike. We do meet quorum right now. I see five, you know, schools representing today's meeting. So, we're going to uh I'm going to share my screen again
and I'm going this is not what I Oh, I know I have my meetings up right here. Jamie, I'm going to give the floor to you so you can read the minutes. I'm going to make it larger for everyone.
Uh oh. One, call to order. Welcome to approval of January 28, 2026 meeting a minutes. CC updates. Superintendence report. Wait, wait, wait.
>> Uh, I think it's kind of too fast. >> Am I going too fast? Yeah, you're doing good. You're doing good. Okay. >> Okay. And uh P attention adjoinment. >> Okay, thank you Jamie. Um, can we get
motion to approve our meeting minutes from February? I know we went through it pretty quick, but it is listed on our district 25's website if anyone would like to review it. >> Approve. >> Thank you, Angela. Can we get um second
approval? The second motion for approval. >> I approve. >> Thank you, Gladis. I'm going to stop sharing because Dr. Mike is here. So, I'm going to give the floors to Dr. Mike. >> Sure. Thank you, Jenny. Good evening,
everyone. Hope you guys are all doing well. I'm going to hop right into um my short little report and um then we'll be hopping out at around six o'clock because we I have another meeting that I have to hop into. Uh so I do want to
make sure that I'm able to give you guys the the most up-to-date space of our work right now as a district team. And of course, this bar is always in my way. Oops, not that one.
Okay, there we go. Alrighty. All right, so we're going to go through just uh greetings, welcome. Um, thank you guys for allowing me to be here to to chat with you guys. As always, I'll do a couple of celebration updates and reminders and then a couple of goal
updates for you guys as well. Uh, particularly around math and our social emotional learning goal. um at this time. So before we begin, I do want to make a an exciting staffing announcement. Uh we're really very pleased to uh to uh welcome Jessica
Vieas to our district team. She's going to be serving as our family support coordinator. Um it's been a long time coming for our district to um have another um team member join our join our team awesome group. Uh but we're really excited. and she'll be working side by
side with Jenny uh to support all things related to our parents here in the district. Uh so Jessica, I'm not sure if anyone introduced you just yet, but if not, uh if you want to just pop on just so that everyone has an opportunity to see who you are, I'm going to stop
sharing just for a moment. >> Hi everyone. Good evening. My name is Jessica Viegas. I am the new family support coordinator and I'm excited to take on this new role and here to support all families here in the district. Any questions, you could give
me a call. Me and Jenny, we're always here to support all you all. >> Thank you so much, Jessica. And Jessica has been, you know, right out of uh right out of a school and supporting uh kids and parents and right into the uh uh the space of serving in this role
right away. Um, so we're really pleased to to uh to have her join our team and uh we'll be there as a support for all of you guys moving forward. So, thank you Jessica for being here and for uh for assuming this really important role for our district. >> Again, congratulations Jenny and
Jessica. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> So, we're gonna we're gonna bypass the connection before content activity just for today and for sake of time, but just a little fun one. Uh, the food debate. Would you prefer a home-cooked meal or
fancy restaurant? Which one would be your go-to? Um, just let that one swirl a little bit. If you want to enter it into the chat, that would be great. Uh, but we're not going to spend too much time on this one just for tonight. Uh, but if you have a had your choice, would you rather a home-cooked meal or fancy restaurant? Please feel free to add it
to the chat. So, debate league. Uh, we did have our uh debate competition in uh February. Um I don't think that we were able to share this during our last one. Uh looking back at our notes, but uh it was really a great event. Um our elementary schools
and middle schools participated. Uh we look forward to having that. Um our final championship uh debate happens in May. Uh but this was really great work and big shout out to uh Melinda Marissa from our team for organizing and making this happen for our schools.
uh civics week uh that occurred um a few weeks ago. Um but I do want to share a very short little playlist with you. Uh this was done by Melinda from our team. Uh we have had we were fortunate that we had two members of our district uh Esme
and Ethan make it to the main stage which is amongst hundreds and hundreds of children that that uh put in their speeches. We had two enter main stage and one of our students is a finalist which we're really super excited about.
Um, and that is Esme from PS 209. But I did want to quickly share this little highlight reel with you from Melinda and our team. >> Good morning. >> Oops. Hold on. I have to share with volume. Hold on one second. >> Week highlights. The first day of civics week was amazing.
>> I had the opportunity to visit three schools across the district to see civic learning in action. I started my day at PS 184 where fourth grade students launched their take action project focused on improving bathroom cleanliness in their school. After
collecting data, students shared their findings during morning announcements, highlighting the issues such as paper towels on the floor and toilets not being flushed. The students then created clear bathroom expectations and designed posters to remind students of these
rules. Some fourth graders even visited kindergarten and first grade classrooms to teach the expectations directly to younger students. Student monitors will help reinforce these routines and the project will conclude with a recorded public service announcement to help
sustain the effort. Next, I visited IS-250 where 7th grade students were analyzing voter turnout data. Students compared voting participation in the United States with other democracies around the world and
examined data about who participates in elections. This led to a thoughtful discussion about barriers that may prevent some people from voting, including difficulty understanding candidate platforms, dissatisfaction with candidates, or the belief that one
vote does not matter. It was impressive to see students using real data to think critically about civic participation. My day ended at MS 379 College Point Collaborative where families gathered for a civics and literacy night.
Families learned about the civics work students are doing in school and the importance of student voice. The school also celebrated their Project Soapbox speeches, and we're so excited to hear that eighth grader Ethan will represent both the school and the district at the
citywide soapbox event on March 26th. Families then visited classrooms where they participated in civics trivia and collected copies of Civics for All Comics to build their own home libraries. In addition to the schools I visited
today, many other schools across the district were also celebrating Civics Week. At Junior High School 185, the school community announced the winning project for their participatory budgeting funds, and classrooms across the school participated in Civics's
readalouds. Over at PS129, students celebrated Civics for All Week with activities such as Go Green Day, encouraging students to think about how being responsible stewards of shared spaces connects to civic responsibility.
>> So, I'm going to just stop it right there. Just got you guys get the idea of of the the types of things that were happening during Civics Week. really important part of our work as a community where we're promoting o promoting space for our kids to use those voices in productive ways and
>> students also sorry >> and it will continue to be you know a staple of our work moving forward. you know, the more that we provide opportunities for our kids to use those voices, um the more productive changes that they'll be able to make inside of
our district community as a whole. Uh but really for their own schools, too. Um so, we're we're really excited about I don't know why this will not let me change the screens here. Uh we're really excited about the direction of of this work and want to continue to move it
forward as a community. So, uh, more to follow on this as, uh, as we celebrate our kids and we will certainly give you an update on Esme as she performs at the citywide competition, uh, coming up real soon.
>> And I want to invite everyone to um, on on the slides, there's a link at the bottom. You can get the playlist of all of Melinda's updates from Civics Week. And there's a lot of great stuff in there >> uh, that Dr. Mike is uh, go to the left. Dr. Mike second second tab. Oh, you can't see it.
>> No, I can't get to it. That's so weird. I don't know. Oh, there it goes. >> Okay. Yeah. So, that link on the bottom, you can see all of the different um updates from Melinda that week and of course like and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Thank you. >> Yeah, really, really great work that our
kids and schools are doing and and encourage you guys to take a look. We were also fortunate we were we were selected to participate in an amazing event with the New York uh with the uh Queens Library um and connections to
NASA. So students were able to really in a live way even though it doesn't look so live um have a conversation with astronauts in outer space. Um our students were uh were able to ask their questions directly to astronauts and
receive their feedback in real time. So, it was really just a great experience and we thank Queens Library for offering this opportunity to our kids. We also are um really I mean that what's happened here is unbelievable, but Liam
from from PS32 uh won the citywide spelling be competition. Um and I'm not sure if you guys noticed, but he's wearing a specific jersey. Uh, and that jersey is from a um English Premier League soccer
club and they wound up seeing Liam wearing that jersey and he's become Instafamous. So, their organization actually reached out to him um had a com phone conference with he and his dad and invited him to walk onto the field when
they come to the United States for one of their soccer exhibitions. It's turned out to be this huge huge thing. Um, aside from that, WNBC's reached out to him, WNYC has reached out to him. It's become a huge thing for Liam. Uh, so we're really excited for him and we're
going to be cheering him on as he competes um in the national competition in Washington DC in May. Uh, so big kudo kudos to to Liam and for what he's been able to accomplish uh, but also for what's coming up uh, ahead of him. and
if he does well, you might wind up seeing him on ESPN, you know, moving forward. So, we're really cheering him on from a distance and excited for what's happened to him in the PS32 community because of it. So, this is something that I'm really
proud of. Um, District 25 has been showcased in um in a publication by the Center for Public Research uh and Colombia. Um they've interviewed myself, a number of
our district team members and principles and parents and uh and teachers around some of the things that we've been doing uh to really organize our work as a district to make sure that our kids are becoming uh the best readers and writers and and and such as can possibly be here
in our district. And I do want to share this with you. You're welcome to go and look at it. Uh but you will find quotes from myself and our district team um inside of this publication. Um and it just kind of calls out the amazing work that our schools are doing every single day for our kids. And even saying that
knowing that we have miles to go, but is really some promising information in there for for all of our families to to connect with to see the great practices that are happening. Uh we just held our uh latest district math family night at JHS 189. Big shout
out to Beth and Liz from our team as well as Dr. Bradley for hosting this event. Um we had a really really great turnout. Also like to thank Amplify Math who who sponsored our event um for this evening. But kids practicing and
engaging in games with their families really doing some of that amazing math work. Lewis there as always with his estimation jars. He loves that that component uh where kids get to identify how many of specific candies are in these jars. And then we had are
fortunate enough to give some some amazing things away to our community. So it was a job well done and big uh shout out again to 189 for hosting. We had our cheer expo at um towns and
Harris. We had cheerleaders from across all of our district schools uh participated in this event and I have to tell you it was really amazing. Um you know our kids were there to show off what they've been learning from their coaches throughout the year. But what
impressed me most uh was that all of the kids that were not cheering were cheering on all of the all of the schools um as they performed in front of one another. And is really heartwarming when you think about a district community that's got 34 schools and two
prek two prek centers and to have all of those kids there pulling for one another was just a really amazing thing. The gymnasium at Towns and Harris was packed. We had parents from across our district there. Um excited to see what our kids were able to come up with and
one performance after the next was just fantastic. Uh, so big shout out to Diana, all of our coaches, and all of our kids for making this a really special day. >> I also want to highlight that the event, like all of our athletic events are was live streamed. And to as of right now,
the cheer expo from 5 days ago has had 4,700 views on YouTube. And the volleyball game that I mean, it happened today, so it has a little less time. 300 views. So the cheer is definitely super popular
and everyone everyone loves it. >> Yeah. And one of the kind of amazing parts about this is during the the event, one of this one of the kids came up to me. And it's the great part about having these things in high schools is one of the young ladies came up to me
and said, "Dr. Dantana, I'm coming here. This is the school that I'm coming to." And those are the unintended consequences of of um being able to show kids uh what an experience could look like in a high school uh and in a high school with the not you know the
notoriety of a towns in Harris. But for kids to be able to come there do their thing in front of parents but to say that you know what I want to come here because of that you know I think is a really powerful part of the work as well. Uh we were also fortunate today we were
joined by uh Chancellor Samuels as part of his uh tour of schools across and tours of districts across New York City. Uh he joined us today to speak with our kids, speak with our parents, local elected officials to learn a
little bit about um district 25 but also around the needs in our district community. Uh so we thank Chancellor Samuels and I thank uh Principal Singh and PS24 uh for being amazing hosts um and showcasing the great work that's happening inside of their schools from
our cheerleaders greeting to them doing a short little skit uh from Finding Nemo, their Disney show that they'll be showcasing later in May and also their uh chorus uh singing to our chancellor this uh this morning. All great work and
really proud to uh to be part of that and proud to be able to showcase what district 25 is about for our chancellor. Summer rising. As you guys know, uh the window has come and gone. Uh uh the 27th
of March was the last day. All of our uh folks that that did um submit an application should expect to receive something back in April uh as to whether or not they've received acceptance into the summer rising program. As I've said in the past, if if uh you do receive um
an acceptance letter, uh you will be asked to either accept or decline. Uh but we do ask if you're going to accept, make sure that that you do intend to go. Uh we don't want to have any seats unused uh for families that may want to use it. So, um, excited for all those
that will wind up receiving that approval letter, but, uh, hope that we are using it wisely and making, you know, you really making use of those seats and not, um, not losing sight that others may be may have interest. Uh, the only way that they can do it is if folks
either approve or decline. Um, so don't accept a seat. In other words, if we're not going to use it. um upcoming events uh recent and upcoming events. We just um held a few of them uh
that are not on here. We just adjusted this slide, but we had a few events that were uh that had just come come and gone from uh Marble Health as well as child uh child mind institute who have been supporting social emotional learning um
sessions for our families. I do encourage you those are on our events page as well. uh really great opportunity if you need some support with your child's behavior. They give really amazing um suggestions and strategies to help uh our parents at home. We do have our next in that uh in
that series is helping your child develop friendships. Um I know that it's always on our minds as parents. You know, me having an ninth grader and 11th grader always concerned about making sure that our kids do have that that group or that one person that they know that they can rely on as a friend. Um,
and sometimes it can be challenging for our kids, especially as they get older and they go from elementary into middle and new groups of kids around them. So, these are it's a great way to connect um with our families. I encourage you uh to hop on and join if you're available. Those sessions that we've been offering
have been really really great. I've been getting great feedback from those that attend. So, if you are available, I encourage you to join. And our uh final session with uh with uh Beth from Beth and Liz from our team around fractions, proportions, and ratios will be held on
April 29th. Uh so I encourage you to attend that as well. Give you a little bit of context around some of the most important math that occurs um for our kids inside of those fractions, those proportions and ratios, areas where our kids tend to struggle. Um, and this
gives you a little bit of a wide range of what that how we start in kindergarten all the way through the eighth grade. So, I encourage you guys to be there for that, too. Our second annual wellness day uh will be held on um Saturday, May 2nd. Uh in
in collaboration with Common Point Queens and the CEC, we're holding this event. We'll also be utilizing uh PS169 and Bell Academy. We'll be using their space. There'll be a range of organizations that are present there to promote uh physical health, mental well
uh mental health, um mindfulness. Um there will be organizations there that that uh that will allow our families to tap into um you know some resources maybe they didn't think they had access to before. So we are inviting as many families as possible to join. Uh last
year we had 300 tickets that were sold. Unfortunately, not everyone wound up using those tickets. So, we're hoping that we have a much bigger turnout this year uh and looking really forward to collaborating with our community education council uh moving forward.
So, this is something I do need um everyone to to kind of connect with and provide feedback on. Um there's a link, Louis, could you put the link to the to the site for parents, the the the site for them to see the the updated
information from the chancellor? >> Yeah, there's um there it's on the next slide. >> Oh, okay, perfect. Um so, what we're asking all of our families to do is tap into what the current state is of AI guidance from uh
from the central team. There's a family-f facing letter as well as a series of kind of bullet points that our uh central team is working on uh to support artificial intelligence and what it looks like inside of our schools. Uh
what is what they classify as their traffic light system, what is a green light, what's a yellow light, and what's a red light. Um and they're asking for feedback. So, what I would like to do is give you guys this information. I ask that when you come back in April that we
take a little bit of time out of of my intro, out of my presentation for you guys to tap into that survey, really look over the the resources and then give our chancellor as well as our central team um additional feedback to support their final guidance to all of
our schools. So, this is an important space. You know, as you guys know, AI is is here and it's it's around us every single day. um and we need to make sure that we're using it uh as effectively and efficiently as possible uh to support our kids, but also to be mindful
of the dangers that exist, you know, with with the ineffective use of said tools. So, we do want to make sure that um that you have a voice inside of this space. Um I will be presenting at the upcoming CEC uh just around some bullet
points from uh from the central team. Uh but this is just giving you to a to you guys ahead of time to so that you can use um that time and space between now and next uh the next meeting to add some of that feedback to the survey. So please do so.
Uh the resources are here. Um when you click on the school's link, it's going to bring you to this page with our starting points uh with what what it is and what it's not. I think that's really important. Sometimes we get a hear so much information about AI
that we're not really clear on what the tools are. Um, but a whole bunch of information I do ask you to review as parents uh and share that feedback with us uh using that link that was on the previous page.
Uh we also talked uh last month um which I'm not going to go into now just because it is a lot to do in one in one visit. But I will revisit the the guide to MTSS that we reviewed with our CEC um la during last month's meeting. This
is here too for your review. Uh really important information here around uh around what MTSS is and what it means for our families. Um like I said, I'm not going to go into depth with it today. I just wanted to show you that it is here uh to give you a little bit of
clarity about what's available inside of our schools particularly for children that are struggling as readers, mathematicians and uh social emotional learning. And then quickly a goal followup. What we have done just so that everyone knows
we created a new survey for our kids to capture some of their social emotional learning needs. We made it much more user friendly. Uh we have options to change languages. We have options for it to be read to our kids. This is not intended to be a reading
test. We really want to get their perceptions around how they're feeling in school. Um little drop downs with confetti. You can see um if there's a disagreement, we allow them to keep going. And you'll notice here that when we go too fast, it'll ask our kids to
slow down uh and take their time so that we're getting as accurate of information as we possibly can. And what we've noticed thus far, and I'll have a deeper analysis for you in April, is that the outcomes from our kids are improving
from where they were in the fall to where they are now. uh in some cases upwards of 20 plus percent difference in our students perceptions um which says that there are the things that we're doing to build relationships is having a
positive impact um I do think there's a tremendous amount more work that we have to do uh but we are seeing some fruits of that inside of our teach of our student feedback from the fall to the winter community agreements have improved in terms of uh what our
students think about them connection before content has improved significantly. Uh the building of relationships has changed from one from the fall to the winter. So we are in a on a positive track in terms of student perception. Uh what we will be doing is
using this data to pinpoint specific questions that our kids are struggling with. Um and then encouraging our schools to make positive changes at the school level. in mathematics. Something I didn't share with you during our last session that I wanted to highlight was our children
that are preparing to take the regents. The two components that we're looking to see at the highest rate are the high and high average performance rates for our kids. uh they have stained sustained uh the the status from where we were in 2425 to 2526
with the exception to more kids performing at the high range which is what we want to see and fewer children performing at the low range also what we want to see. So our schools have this information and they are working to to ensure that as many of our kids as
possible um are prepared for and ready to take that regent's exam in June. Um, we are asking for more of our families to complete our survey as well as the city survey. So, mine is important, the city survey even
more important. So, please make sure uh that you're messaging out to your community to complete both. Uh, it does give us really important feedback. And what we do know and what we will change for next year is not administering them at the same time. Uh, we know we have to make that change and we will going into
next year. But I encourage you to please make sure your families know to do that moving in uh at you know between now and the next couple of weeks. And the last thing that I do want to share and I'll sp more on this next
month. Uh but New York State is pushing something called the portrait of a graduate. Uh the portrait of a graduate is around these six elements that our kids are academically prepared that they're becoming creative innovators, critical thinkers, effective
communicators, global citizens, and reflective and future focused. So what this ultimately means is that there's going to be a change for our current kids, particularly our children in fifth grade. Um there will be a change in terms of
diplomas. Right now there are three diplomas. They will be shifting to one diploma uh for all learners. Not all children will be expected to complete and take the regent's exam. Those will become an optional space uh for our
kids. All the regions coursework will be expected but completing the exam will not. So there will be more to follow on this. I share this with you just for a space of information. Um, and we will come back to this as well. So, there's a lot of stuff for us to cover in April,
May, and June. Uh, but I wanted to just kind of frontload some of these things for you so that you had your eyes on it before we started discussing. And that will conclude my presentation for you tonight. >> Thank you, Dr. Mike. I know you have to
jump on to the six o'clock meeting. Um, so I have three minutes to finalize my >> I have to also, Jenny, just so you know. >> Okay. So, I'm going to go through my slide. Okay. Give me I can do it in three minutes. >> And if anyone needs anything from me, please let me know. But I'm going to hop
off right now to hop into the other meeting. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Always for being here and supporting us and for and Mr. Sarin, too. Okay. Thank you all. We're going to go back to my slide to our slide. Our slide, our debac slide.
So, thank you. We approved the U meeting minutes for February. Daniel Lewis for uh introducing us to Google forms and showing us on how to create Google forms. Does anyone have questions about Google form? Please feel free to reach out to me and Lewis and Jessica. We are
here to support you. So, our title one pack members again we have Crystal Gonzalez. She's the DPAC chairperson. Jamie Wong is the alternate and our secretary is vacant. So if anyone is interested in running for the uh secretary for DPAC, please let us know.
The role of the secretary is to prepare meeting notice, agendas and signin sheets and record the meetings at all and recording the minutes at all meetings. Um during the city pack the updates they were giving out was around IP plan portal and NYC school survey. So, iPen
portal if some if anyone here is not aware what IPAN portal is is uh the platform where all the title one schools have to upload their meet at any related items to title one. It could be the title one election, it could be the parent information and any the monthly
pack meetings that we are having at the school level. Um school must upload the meeting flyer, meeting agendum, the um attendance and any materials that you might share during the DPAC meeting. the pack meeting at the school level. So that's the IP plan portal. It will be
closed on April 1, which is tomorrow for a temporary um maintenance. They will open up sometimes around the April spring break. So for now, we are asking all schools to upload anything that's open from September up to March. So if
you are working, if you are having your monthly DAC pack meetings, make sure you share your um meeting materials with either the sup um the parent coordinator or the anyone that's designated to upload these materials to the IPM
portal. Please work closely with that person so that person can upload this these information into the IPM portal before it closes. Okay, thank you so much. And then they also share um the um updates around NYC school survey is the
green survey that every families are getting around this time with a green envelope. So um the survey deadline has been extended by the way from April 1st to April 17. So we have 17 more days to uh complete the survey if you haven't
done it yet. Um so what is the NYC school survey? So NYC school survey gets sent out to DOE families, DOE teachers and staff and students um um and students from 6 to 12. They are asked to complete this uh
annual school survey. So what families are asked about? So family are asked about the communication with families, relationship between the families and the teachers, school leadership and school climate, safety and respect at school, family involvement in school and satisfaction
with your child's education. Why is your why your voice matters? So with your voice, it help us understand families experience at the school, improve communication with families, support students learning and well-being, strengthen school climate and safety, and plan improvements for
the future. So is the family survey confidential? The family survey is confidential but not anonymous. So that means school will know which families have submitted the school survey, but they would not know the the responses that you put in in the
survey. So again, it's confidential but not anonymous. Um there's three ways to complete the survey. You can use the prepaid U envelope that comes with the green envelope to send in to mail in the survey. You can log into your Nexa
account, which is the NYC schools account and complete the survey via your NXA account. Or you can uh log in online via nycschoolservey.org. Um, and if you log in online, you will need your child's Osis number, the nine
digits OS number, and put a lower um lowercase F in front of the OS number to complete the survey online. So, there's three ways to complete the survey. Um, it's continues. I already mentioned
this. So if you so they're asking so DO is asking all um families to uh complete the survey for each child in their family. We understand if you are a family of multiple children if you have five children I mean we are so
overwhelmed every day with our own life and jobs. No one has time to complete five surveys. We totally understand. So we're asking and suggesting everyone just do as many as you can. one and two. Um, but it's not mandated to complete
everyone, but we're just suggesting at families to do as as many as you can and you um by the end of this month, I believe the the result will be released on the Panorama NYC schools website. It
will show you how family respond. Again, is um confidential, so you can't see who submitted what, but you can see the responses. Um um again I have I will list this title one um funding expenditures what the
money can be spent at and what the money cannot be spent at in case you are looking for this. I don't want you to go through all the slides to see where we you can find it in casea in this case we're just going to list them for every month. Title one schools. We are uh we
have 26 title one schools in total at district 25 out of 36 schools under the juris jurisdictions of Dr. Dantonum and we going to keep expanding this list hopefully and keep exploring new vendors. If you guys have any vendors in
mind that you feel would be, you know, would be would benefit other schools, please share those vendors with us and we'd be happy to, you know, schedule the meeting with them and and see what they offer and have them uh attend our DPAC meetings.
Um, upcoming meetings, our next DPACK meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 29 at five o'clock. Same link, same time, but April 29. So please join us again and president council meeting the next will be Monday April 20. This is the
meeting where all our parent leaders from our PAPTA attendance to learn to get the updates and turn key to their school community meeting. The next CEC meeting is Wednesday April 15. This is an in-person
meeting. So all members must attend in person to uh to meet quorum. But there's a hybrid link for you to listen it if you are interested in listening in that can be found on our D25 website as well. Um I'm going to stop sharing.
So again during our DPAC monthly meetings we try our best to invite um different vendors or to pro uh to share resources that's uh pertaining to your road so we can better support you in your needs. So, if you have anything in
mind that we haven't shared, please let us know so we can plan ahead and schedule that for our future meetings. Does anyone have any questions? >> I actually have, it's not so much a question.
>> So, um, my principal emailed Yolena to check if our Title One event was approved. >> Okay. And so Yolena responded back that it was approved, but she suggested to the principal that our school should do
more than one one workshop, but she doesn't understand that our school is small and our title one funding only fits one thing for the year. So every year we only do one title one event
because that's all our money fits. So I will ask Elena what suggestions she has in mind like does she wants some fundings to go through you know for parent workshop towards math or technology or seal which is you know Elena should be the direct per point
person for your principal um for suggestions I don't know how many how much money the funding your school received and what the funding has been used at but Elena is definitely the point person do you want me to connect
Elena Elena with your school principal or um >> no that they're they're already in touch. >> Okay. Okay. But if Yolena has some suggestions but you don't know who to reach out, let us know. We can definitely support you with some vendors that's are that are vetted and used, you
know, in the DOE before so we can you know so we feel safe having them in coming in. >> Sounds good. Thank you. >> We can support you with that. No problem. Gladies, does anyone else have any questions? Uh, hi Jenny. This is Alice from MyS25. Hi.
>> Hi. Yeah, we had a question about like what uh the I heard that like um we heard that inflatables are no longer allowed for some of the the events or something. Is that true? >> So, >> no, that was already addressed. Alice, I think we're good. >> Oh,
>> yes. Sorry. Yeah. >> Yes. I don't mind. Um we we addressed it in an email. That was a long email thread. Um if someone can send forward that email to Alice that would be great. Otherwise contact me tomorrow and I will forward you the information. >> Okay great. Thank you.
>> No problem. If any does anyone have questions? If not then we're going to um get the motions to adjourn our meeting. Can we get um someone to motion to approve um adjourning the meeting?
>> Approve to adjourn. >> Thank I I >> Angela. Thank you. >> And and Cindy. >> Cindy. Oh, sorry. Cindy. That's >> Thank you, Cindy. Thank you, Alice. Thank you, Angela. And the meeting is officially adjourned at 608.
And we will see you on April 29th. Enjoy the break everyone. >> You too. >> Have a good night everybody. >> Everyone have a good night. >> Good night. Stay safe. >> Thank you. Thank you Jamie.
>> So >> good night Jenny. >> Thank you. Good night. >> Good night. >> Okay, we're gonna Thank you Jamie. We're gonna log off now. We're gonna jump to the other meeting to join Superintendent Dr. Mike. Okay. Bye bye. Oh. >> All right, Jenny. Yeah, we're gonna go hop on. All right. >> Bye bye. Yeah. Bye. See you.