Council to order and the meeting is now being recorded okay so we started the meeting at 6:32 was called to order um thank you all for attending again um just a reminder to um rename
yourself with your school um before your name for attendance and recordkeeping purposes um and oh I'm really sorry but I I'm not I can't change my name name just because
it's a work one oh okay um it's Joan at is25 okay Joe thank you for letting okay um so tonight we're going to start off with the minutes from our
January meeting I'm going to rename joean from is237 correct is25 25 okay got it let me share my screen okay so I'll turn it over to our recording secretary to review the
minutes from our January meeting hi everyone this is sh speaking um the meeting the meeting on January the 27 started at 6:32 p.m. and uh rual
CH the meeting um first uh we reviewed the previous minute the minute for the meeting on December last year and then uh Dr Michael or superintendent presented the
report including uh Martin Luther King Junior Day activities um or council member once uh allocation for Auditorium technique and bathroom upgrade in
ps24 Queens and Lunar New Year celebrations District 25 Mass family night recap and upcoming events including the uh parental workships for literary math
already already and special education and also uh important en Ro dates for high school middle school kindergarten 3K prek GI and talented G grade one to four Admissions and also the information
about the project uh soort speeches and the youth leadership team District 25 vist day uh will be on March the 15th this year in District 25 Elementary School and Middle School athletics
updates and District 25 partnership winter diagnostic assessment including Cadence I ready map and also parents survey and attendance uh we have
Anna and Melinda uh made the presentation about hm hmh curriculum and also we have Aiden from CC told us some updates about uh Community Education
Council uh also there are some uh important days Remer for the meeting dap and Ana presidental council meeting that's for today also the meeting ended at 7:59 p.m. that's all thank
you okay thank you so does anyone have any questions any changes to suggest to the January minutes as they were presented okay nothing in the chat okay then if somebody could make a
motion to accept the January minutes and state your name for the minutes I motion to accept Marna PCO psms 219 thank you MAA if somebody could second the motion I second the motion
and Kim from ps32 thank you you all right so that concludes the minutes portion of tonight's meeting and now we will move forward with Dr Michael dantona our superintendent and fearless leader with the superintendence report
thank you Rachel always appreciate you uh good to see all of you guys um going to go over a few things uh tonight just a couple of reminders and updates talk a little bit about some uh some celebrations we have some of our kids that we want to celebrate for spelling be and uh respect for all contest
winners um share a little bit about some upcoming events that we have a comic book event that I'll share momentarily and want to share a little bit more about the wellness day that is upcoming in the middle of March and then we'll do a little uh summary of our performance
data uh across our priorities from the beginning of uh that we said at the beginning of the year to give you a little bit of a midyear check in terms of where we are performance-wise as a district uh which I also encourage all of you to talk about with your at the current School level where you currently
are what's the performance look like in terms of output from acadians output from I ready and so on the data sets that I talked about during last month's session uh our kids are currently um in a position where we finished the second uh the M uh diagnostic assessment so uh
we have more information accessible for you tonight uh to share a little bit about the progress that we've made and uh additional work that we need to get accomplished as a school so having said that let me share with you my
presentation for tonight and Jenny when we get to the uh the section around uh our students I'm not sure if our students are on uh just let me know if they are here and then we could um we can be begin including them
in here okay um so just a quick little shout out and congratulations to David from ps-130 uh divine grace from is- 250 and Jason from 185 they are um our spelling be Award winners for uh the burrow of
queens and they will be moving on uh to the Citywide spelling be in March so uh big shout out to them excited for them and big thanks to Melinda willins who's on the call uh who continues the spelling be work every single year um and you'll hear her name a couple of
times we have a few events that Melinda is also o associated with um in the form of uh the Civics work and project soapbox so I'll talk about a little bit about that in a minute uh also want to congratulate our students from ps164 um they engaged with uh burough
president uh Richard's office uh to connect on um requests for res grant funding um and you know what we what we do want to instill in all of our students is create opportunities for uh for them to use their voice and take an
opportunity to connect with our local elected officials to request the things that our schools need um and more and more we're seeing more of our children get uh more active in this space where they're not only requesting funding but they're requesting things like traffic lights and and stop signs outside of
their building because they see a specific need um and that's what we really want to start instilling uh more and more in our kids that their voice really matters and we want to make sure that they're they're taking advantage of that voice by putting things out there for our local elected officials to see
so this is just an example of of students from 164 going out there and engaging in that civic duty in in uh connecting with uh burough president Richard's office so thank you to them and I'm looking forward to seeing how that uh resulted in hopefully some funds
going to 164's community um respect for all winners uh big shout out to Elvis from 209 Anthony from 209 uh Aaliyah Chris uh MAA Savannah chance and Chris uh from 201 uh they were announced at
the CC meeting they were announced at DLT and we want to make sure that we announce them here as well during president's Council uh Stella and Benjamin from the prek centers as well um Ming Kang from 185 josn from 185 and Isabella from 294 for the work that they
put forward uh for the respect for all essay multimedia and poster contests so big shout out to them for that you all have access to this little video this was from the prek centers I'm not going to necessarily go through this now uh but it is here and available to you
and you know when we when we think about student voice you know our three and four year olds in our schools um do a great job of making sure that we reconnect with the importance of being kind and uh and respectful so uh it's a cute little video here if you have an opportunity I encourage you to take a
look at it um February celebrating Black History Month hard to believe by the way that we are in the last week of February uh but our schools have been engaging in um different types of activities and and connections to Black History Month um as we move into March we'll be able to share some more of those artifacts with
you when uh they are shared with us at the district level uh we'll connect with you on that during our next session upcoming events you guys know that we do do a variety of of um offerings for um our district Community
um the the next one that we actually have was rescheduled a rescheduled event for discussions in mathematics that is happening tomorrow uh with Beth Eaton from our team uh connecting with our families around the importance of making sure that our kids have an opportunity to communicate about math so that is
happening tomorrow we did host a an I ready event uh we were able to record the first one unfortunately we were not able to do that for the second one and not because we weren't necessarily ready but we were just uh told we were not allowed to record the event from I ready
perspective so um we do have access to any information that any families need and I encourage all of our schools uh to make sure that they're tapping into the resources from IR including the diagnostic results um so if you're a parent from PTA here um you know I
encourage all of our PTA presidents make sure that we're connecting with our schools requesting this information um so that you know it as families but it's spread more widely across our schools um virtual uh special education uh Workshop Series this is particularly important
for uh the upcoming one for families that have four-year-olds that may be going through the kip process um and need to have a little bit more of an understanding around what does that look like if you have a child that's four uh that may need an IEP this process is really really important so I encourage
you uh to make sure that you reach out we'll be sending this out widely as well just in terms of our invents information but uh for any families that you know that might be in need in this area direct them right to our events page so that they have access to it um and we
also have some recordings from our aadience workshops from our families uh for that were delivered for our families from our team members really great resources here if you are a parent of a child that has that's in kindergarden through second grade um not only do do
the these recordings share with you um what the elements are that our kids are assessed on but it also includes some some uh tools available for families to help their children at home so I do encourage you to uh to share that widely with your with your parent
Community um we're going to be hosting a family Civics night um that's going to be connected with uh with comic books uh all from uh the out all outgrows from the passport uh to social studies curriculum and the Civics component
along with it so they've developed a really uh significant series of comic books that are going to be available for our kids and what's interesting about that and those of you that that know your kids they they typically like um graphic novel based types of text um you
know and this allows for that uh for some of our kids that really like to tap into the comic theme um comic genre so it's a really good exper good opportunity for them to experience some of this we're really talking about it promoting democracy promoting Civic engagement promoting that space of
social just uh social justice um and free comic books for all the kids that do come so I encourage you guys to par participate in that and we welcome any of our parents that want to that are on here that want to come and volunteer and support uh certainly welcome you and I know uh Melinda will certainly welcome
that additional support as well um Wellness day uh this is something that we've been working on for the past uh month plus um and the idea actually spurred out of a meeting that was held by the UFT in collaboration with mindup
it's our social emotional learning program where they hosted a series of of um activities and events from yoga to um to um creating slime and all things related to kind of that um mental health
support so uh and it was done in collaboration with common Point Queens so I thought it would be a nice thing for us to also connect with common Point Queens and they've uh decided to support in in partnership with District 25 the UFT our CC uh to create a mental um oh
excuse me a this day that really promotes the idea of mental Wellness um uh mental health excuse me uh physical wellness uh nutrition uh we have uh the office of school foods that will be there uh present to share uh some of the
school food offerings that are available um along with um activities from New York City uh soccer club uh New York City lack um we're going to have the US uh tennis Association present all have a series of
different opportunities for our kids to participate in a variety of different events so we're really excited about it um there is the the flyer there for those that are interested that will that is being sent widely to our families um we will have a a bit of a cap on
registration we don't want to have so many that we can't accommodate uh so we'll when we start getting to a point where uh the registration gets to uh to something that we can't necessarily handle we will put a stop to that registration but we're hoping we'll get a 300 or so families uh plus our our
staff members to be there um on that day really really looking forward to this being an outgrowth of uh of the work that we did as a collaboration between C but also as a starter for future events that we can organize together uh in this
space so again if this is an area that you'd be interested in in supporting and participating in please don't hesitate let us know uh we'd love for as many people as possible to be involved uh summarising uh applications for our family start on Tuesday March
4th and the closing of that will be Friday March 28th um the window for the program for K to 5 will be July 2nd through August 15th uh Monday through Friday 8 to 6 um the Department of Education part of that
program uh will end a week earlier uh and goes from Monday through Thursday um so just as a as an FYI and uh grade 6 to 8 the program goes from July 2nd through uh August 8th also Monday through th Monday through Friday
with the doe part of the program going Monday through Thursday um this is something that's important for all of our families to know to make sure that they're applying um and they don't uh wait till the very last minute and then get locked out of the opportunity by
trying to apply on the 29th so encouraging all of our families to stay connected on this and apply as soon as it's accessible um project so boox um this is something that we've we've asked all of our schools to engage in uh and it
ranges in terms of uh the volume of classes that have been uh able to participate some of our schools all the way into the the pre kindergarten uh classes through their 8th grade if they are K through 8 prek through 8 and um
others are able to to Pilot it in smaller in smaller spaces but the goal of this is that we're building out our Civic responsibilities within our kids that they're able to identify an area that they're passionate about establish a uh a persuasive speech and a call to
action um so during our C meetings um one of the things that I've requested is that schools share um some of the work that their children have been doing and that they get to share that call to action with us as adults um in different spaces so CC president Council here and
our DT uh to really get us to think um proactively as a collective group around things that they're passionate about so do we have our our students on yes will you have them Melinda yes we do oh terrific so we have uh three students
that are going to be presenting tonight we have Olivia from PS22 uh Logan from 164 and Rachel from 164 so we're really excited about you guys being here tonight um and we're going to go through them in that order I already see some smiley faces hi guys um so do we have
Olivia Olivia are you on yes yes yeah Olivia is here from PS22 um and is gonna sh share um her soapbox speech with us tonight thank you so much Olivia for joining us and for sharing a little bit about school bathrooms I'm assuming is your topic yes
yes yes well okay well welcome uh Olivia and if it's okay with you Rachel we're going to give uh Olivia the floor sure before she starts could you stop screen sharing so we'll be able to see oh of course yes that would be great yeah sure
absolutely okay Olivia go ahead this you go to use the bathroom Acy toilet papers all over the floor you go into one of the stars and it isn't
flushed gross you close the door and there right in front of you is a bad word Scrolls on the wall this is something I have experienced and I bet you probably have
too hi my name is Olivia zing and today I would like to talk to you about how and clean school bathrooms are affecting students health and learning according to a an 2020 article
but gotam miss a report showed that 57% of New York City school bathrooms were deemed unsafe as the space did not have proper
ventilation this can increase the the amount of bacteria that can spread some students choose to hold it in for the 6 hours because they want to avoid bathrooms this can lead to
distress and impacts their focus during class in my case when I do go I spend longer in the bathrooms because of the dirtiness and it and it's uh
where wait uh you're doing great take your time it takes away for my learning believe it or not I Al once found a baby cockro crawling under the
sink have you ever seen a bug or insect in your school bathrooms e that gives me the Goosebumps so how can we fix this for one let's follow bathroom rules
clean up of yourself by flushing the toilet and washing your hands if you drop something on the floor pick it up also installing automatic hand sanitizer dispensers at the entrance of the bathrooms can ensure people are extra
clean after then when they're done we want to decrease that the germs they're spreading a second solution is to reach out to custodians custodians are responsible for
maintaining and keeping our schools clean after today I urge you to speak to your school custodians if you notice your bathrooms are dirty friends I'm
strongly encouraging you to be a good school Citizen and respect our bathrooms the same way we respect others and ourselves let's stop making bathrooms such an
upsetting experience for us thank you yay Olivia great job great job Olivia very good great job way to go thank you I'm really uh really I really appreciate you you sharing that and gives me an opportunity to also push
your voice forward and speak with our facilities manager around the importance of keeping keep our bathrooms good and clean um so that you guys feel don't have to feel that level of discomfort but I love how you were changing your tone of voice making sure that you were
connecting with us as the audience I love that you Ed research to make sure that you are backing your opinion up with some really important facts you did an amazing amazing job and you're certainly making me think more deeply um as a district representative to help support your
cause thank you thank you so much parents any of you have any any quick little statements that we want to give to Olivia just in for her being here tonight Olivia you give me the courage to speak to my principal and tell them I have the right to a clean
bathroom thank you well Olivia thank you so very much I I can't uh thank you enough for being here and and sharing um you know your your call to action with us tonight thank you so much okay okay have a good night Olivia thank
you bye bye okay we have uh two more Representatives that that have joined us tonight we're going to start off with Logan uh from 164 Logan I see you in the Tupper upper right leftand corner of my screen welcome Logan
hey thank you so much for joining us tonight and you're going to be sharing your speech with us too right yeah all right Logan the floor is yours buddy all right all right hi my name is Logan pin and today I'm going to be talking to you guys about how important recess is you
wake up one morning with your new sports gear waiting to use it with your friends at what people call recess you finally hear the bell ring at that fourth fifth or sixth period and you're like yes it's finally recess until you get down there
and a staff member says we're going to the auditorium when you realize you've been waiting all this time your drops this has been an ongoing issue and not just our school but many others reset should be a time we get to let out all our energy not a time to sit in the
auditorium chairs and stare at each other recess is one of the most important times of a school day not just for one reason but for many others one reason is that kids should get the 20 to 25 minute playing break this is important because kids get
almost no break from those 3 to 5 periods of learning also the 3 to five periods of learning is equivalent to 135 to 225 minutes for example a kid who has been working their brain off learning all they can hold do you notice anything he
needs a break another reason is that recess is a time for students to let them work through frustration games such as basketball soccer or even tag or they can simply talk to their friends and not worry about ratios or short responses
this shows that recess is the ultimate brain break my third and final reason is recess improves Focus which can lead to better creativity and problem solving recess allows students to burn off excess energy and makes it easier for them to concentrate when it's time to
return to class all this improves Focus help students with their cognitive development and problem solving I need you to help convince staff members to let us play or even just the kids who do they're supposed to do I need us to come together so we have the right to play
every day because it is required also 559 elementary students every day are denied recess in our district in conclusion recess is beneficial for a students's growth mental health and academic success thank
you all right way to go Logan thank you great job great job Logan and uh you know coming from someone that that um does appreciate physical activity uh which you which I'm not sure if you notice Logan and heard
us talk about uh the wellness day that we were that we're adding to uh to the district it has a lot to do with that physical wellness um and making sure that we are connected with our bodies and when our bodies are telling us that we need to be able to move um that we're
given an opportunity to do that so thank you very much for the reminder and it'll be something that I'm able to bring up with our building leaders because of your because of your speech tonight so thank you so much for sharing you're welcome guys any other comments for Logan and and uh the great speech around
the importance of recess I think you've did a really nice job of explaining it I am a psychologist and I teach people about this stuff every day um and it is super duper important for kids to be able to get up and move to help you guys get back to
learning and I think you did a really really nice job in explaining that thank you thank you so much for adding that in I appreciate that all right thank you so much Logan I appreciate you being here um and I'm probably G to tap into you a
little bit to get some uh some creative ideas around how we can make this better all right thank you buddy okay and now we have Rachel who's up also from psms164 welcome Rachel hello how are
you good okay welcome Rachel I'm gonna turn it over to you and you're gonna get to share your speech okay okay okay I'm G to turn it over to you your turn hello my name is Rachel benman um from psms 164 today I'm talking to you
about pollution the reason this is such a big issue is because pollution makes it hard for people to be and make makes more than 6 million people die a year this means one in 10 people die due to air
pollution Rel related illness imagine a world where everyone use less cars this would be good cuz one car releases 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year instead of driving car
people can use bicycles scooters and wall skates you can also walk this is good because not driving one mile can save up to 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide perum I need you to use your car less it's okay if you
use your car when it's far away but when you can walk try to walk instead of using your car y Rachel way to go great job yeah and I it is a reminder aside from uh aside from the fact that
sometimes I do get into my car Rachel when probably I should use my feet and walk to the destination you just gave me a great reminder of uh why it's important not only to to Logan's Point around being Physically Active uh but also to make sure that I'm taking care of the environment in a better way so
thank you so much for sharing that and I love that you added in that that research you're sharing it from the perspective of not only your call to action but based on what uh is out there in the research so thank you so much Rachel for for sharing with us
tonight thank you Rachel so a fantastic way of looking at the future right there that's that's on point yeah and you know parents for our for um PTA parents that are on here you know the the goal of of all of this one
is to be able to showcase the voices of our kids because they do have some amazing things to say and things that they're passionate about and when they do it creates an opportunity because I you know I feel like we we wind up listening a great deal more for whatever reason when it's coming out of the mouths of babes right when when it's
coming from our little ones and they're they have that space of poise and and connection to what it is that they're passionate about um our ears tend to perk up a lot more uh more so than sometimes even my own voice you know so um I think it's just a great opportunity
and what what I would really encourage you guys as parents to do when you're going back to your schools how many times do we have an opportunity to showcase the voices of our kids um are we creating these opportunities in our buildings you know even during your your PA meetings PTA meetings um where even
you're creating a virtual option because I know it is hard to get to get everyone out at times uh but to create space where we where we're able to hear our kids voices and the things that they're passionate about so we can make really important adjustments um inside of our schools because they have really amazing
things to say so um I've asked uh Miss willin to to invite kids across the the remainder of this school year um to these types of meetings so that you can hear a little bit around what's on the minds of our children um and then more
importantly when we can uh allow those things to become realized um it's one thing for a call to action to be something that our kids share uh but it's another to make it something that's a reality in our buildings in some way shape or form when we can we know that
not everything is going to be accessible um but when we can how do we make it happen so I'm hoping that you uh you enjoyed um the three speeches coming from our kids um and that just to encourage you to to use your own voice to to ask for these opportunities in
your own buildings where kids can use their um you know what they've learned to shape our own decisions as uh as parent leaders uh as building leaders uh and as teacher leaders so um I thank you for uh for um you know for allowing this
time and space Rachel in this in this meeting to to have our kids share a little bit about what they've learned so thank you for that um I'm going to quickly shift back into um our presentation unless does anyone have any any quick comments before I move forward
anything that you wanted to share about about that experience before I move through the quick little summary of our district data I was going to say before we move on we want to make I want to make sure that you know we don't have any other students who showed up who want to do um their sobx speech that I
have forgotten or you know missed okay thanks Jenny uh but any comments any from any of our uh parent leaders any any thoughts otherwise I will um I will certainly move on to the next part okay
okay uh DCP progress monitoring so um folks as I mentioned during our last uh during the last president's council meeting uh all of our schools should be engaging in um in similar work where we're looking at um our Moi the middle
ofe information from our assessments to Benchmark against their goals um so as a district one of the things that we kind of called out in terms of Priority One uh was that all students learned to read well uh with the goal of improving by 5%
and 10% across our um targeted subgroups uh within acadians and kid for children in greates K through two so what we do is we we measure this year over-year where we were at in Winter of last year to Winter of this year uh we are in a
very similar place um to where we were last year 37 uh below where we were in K to2 last uh last school year at this time uh which is something that we're going to continue to work on and through um and I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the things that we're also
noticing in just a minute uh relation to that data our Hispanic Learners are relatively similar to where we were last year at this time um our black Learners have improved by over 3% from where we were at this time uh last
year our enl Learners relatively similar to where we were last year at this time and for our students with IEPs uh about a 72% improvement from where we are where we were last year at this time so we are on on track in some of our
subgroups and not necessarily in all the one subgroup that we're going to continue to Monitor and uh and support because of the the volume of English language Learners that we have in District 25 um are is this particular subgroup is it does cross many of our
other groups when um when we have a scenario and I disaggregate the data and I pull out our English language Learners just for second grade as an example we are upwards of about 80% of our kids that are on or above grade level uh when it
comes to this work what we do know is that we have to continue to build in those language supports to accelerate that opportunity for our newest of Learners um to become proficient readers um proficient writers and so on uh so we know that there's a
lot more work that we have to do with our English language Learners uh moving forward but this is the current state of where we are with them at this time um this particular goal we are still in the process of of monitoring uh
we are giving out the second round of student seal survey uh surveys uh this coming week um and they'll be due to us by next week so during the next uh president's council meeting I will have an update for you the goal here was that we were going to improve relationships
primarily in our middle schools uh with student to- student types of uh relationships as our kids from the first goal round did indicate that um student to student respect was not necessarily where it
needed to be um so from school to school they're in the process right now of organizing action-based projects with their kids based on this data um and the goal of it is by the end of the year that students are taking some ownership over this space of being kind and being
respectful of each other uh and themselves um you know sometimes uh what what we do see is that kids uh our children do think of of being funny and associating that with it being okay to hurt someone's feelings because they
were just telling a joke um which we've heard a number of times during my own student meetings that I have when I go to schools so the goal here is is something that we're going to check in on on again in the next two weeks um see whether or not we've had any impact to this point and then follow up with
additional supports at the school level uh because the goal is that we're building that opportunity of uh of kindness and respect and rapport with one another across our buildings um priority three uh is around
implementation of of of our lessons with an explicit instruction mindset so the elements of explicit instruction are right here on the right hand side where our teachers are thinking about the the purpose making sure that the purpose is clear to our kids and that the model
that we're providing is directly aligned with those expectations and that we're using data to make really good informed decisions again with an improvement of five% for all student subgroup and 10% for uh all of our other targets uh what we have seen is at this point of the
year the goal would be that we're at 2 and a half% uh towards uh meeting that end year T progress Target Mark uh we have grown by just about 2% this year for our all student subgroup uh in I ready for children in grades 3 through 8
uh We've improved uh by 3.67% for our Hispanic Learners in grades 3 through 8 uh just over 3% for our black Learners in District um this is a subgroup that we do need to really continue to support um these are our English language
Learners um you can see here the the percentage of children that are on or above grade level uh in this space right now is an area that we do need to continue to emphasize uh with our schools and then lastly a three and a quar Perc change from last year at this
time for our students with IEPs um for our children in mathematics this is priority four uh goal as as you've seen throughout the year really building in math routines really promoting math talk and using a protocol
called the three reads with the goal of improving comes by the similar similar type of percentages we have seen just under 2% improvement from where we were last year to this year at this time um far fewer children that are multiple grade levels below than in
Reading um three nearly a three and a half% change for our Hispanic Learners year over-year at this time 2.4% for our black learners 3.65% for our enl Learners and 3.37 % for our uh students
with IEPs When comparing last year to this year at this time so we are making progress uh we do want to make more progress than what we've made already at this point uh and part of M and I just met with all all schools today uh for a state of the district where we shared
the current state of our work uh and the goal of continuing to improve towards that end uh by the end of the school year and the last part of the assessment data I do want to share is is our uh Algebra 1
students so our Algebra 1 students right now are uh nearly 79% of our Learners are in the high high average range um and basically what that means is that uh children that are in the high high average range typically perform um in
that space of meeting expectations which where where we're pushing to for all of our kids to be at that 80 to 85 Plus range um performance on the algebra one regions as it's an indicator that when they perform that way they are ready for geometry uh going into the following
school year in high school so we have over 1300 children that are that are currently slated to take the regions this coming June and right now we are well above the performance rate that we were at this time last year with a different subgroup of children it's not the same kids uh
but the children that we have moving into this year are performing at a higher rate on the map assessment than we did last school year at this time um with a lot more room to obviously grow by about 20% of our kids currently not meeting that high high average range uh
so more work to follow with the map assessment as well priority five uh this this is a goal that is uh around making sure that our parents have an opportunity to learn about the progress of their children um survey data still indicates by mid year
that we were at 15% of our families still indicating a need here um I did send out a message from the district for our arada 2 families I will be sending another one out for our 3 to eight families reminding them of the importance of connecting with our teachers uh during parent engagement
time as well as getting feedback from the IR assessment itself um have you seen the progress reports that have come from that and are we connecting with our teachers when our children are performing well above how are we supporting or they're performing on how
are we supporting or if they're performing below how are we supporting our children so it's really really important space of of our work and um I encourage all of our families if you haven't received that information um that you're reaching out to your schools
asking for it because it's really important and I encourage you as um at your own uh PTA meetings that you share this information with your families as well making sure that they're connecting in on the work um at home home as well with their
children and lastly is around chronic absenteeism so I talk about chronic absenteeism also sharing that we do have the second highest attendance rate in New York City um as a district but having said that we still have gone from
where we were in November where every single subgroup was meeting the 4% Improvement level uh to being pretty much in the same place where we were last year at this time variety of reasons that that um are here
including student illness and I always say this guys I repeat myself each time I I do The Chronic absenteeism talk is that we don't want our children in our school sick so if they are not well we certainly don't want them in schools um unwell um but for any other reason our
children should be in school um and we're going to continue to remind our parents and remind our kids of healthy behaviors making sure that we're washing our hands frequently um that uh if there is a is a need that's going on at home that you need extra support in that our
schools are there for you you know if it's a bad weather day and there are issues with uh with making sure that we can get our children to school reach out to the to the to our building leaders to make sure that they know what your concerns are and then we'll work to support them because there is a a clear
relationship between student performance and attendance uh and we know that for sure and for our subgroups in the district it's upwards of 20 to 25% difference in performance when our kids are in school versus when they're not uh so you're going to Contin continue to
hear me emphasize this there'll be messages that are being sent from me to all of our families widely just reminding around healthy behaviors um you know and being a parent myself of a of a 10th grader who has gone for herself getting just weird um just
illnesses that you you would not think a 15-year-old should have um you know wound up getting them throughout the year and um you know and my reminder to her she's got this this propensity to to put those fingers you know biting those nails or whatever it is and getting into
those habits and when we're not washing our hands with frequency um it's a problem and aside from that the Habit itself right so I go through this with my own children about making sure that they're doing uh you know carrying out those healthy behaviors so that our kids
remain uh in school as frequently as possible so this is just a message that I just want to continue to convey uh because of its importance um especially for our youngest of Learners um it is one of our predictors for our children to to not be reading on grade level by
the time they get to third grade is not being in school um and having chronic absenteeism rates where they're in school less than 90% of the time um so that concludes my uh my presentation for you uh this evening if anyone has any questions or concerns I'd be happy to to
answer any of them for you um but I thank you for your time thank you so much Dr Mike we always appreciate having your feedback yeah oh anytime Rachel and I I'm seeing in here what about other subgroups we have the data that's associated with other subgroups the
reason that uh you see it drilled down like this because this is how we've we organize our dce uh can always share other subgroups with you um you know during the next uh next presentation if you like and I'll break it down even further for you we do have a question in the
chat um I just saw it um about what about the Caucasian Asian Etc absentee rates would be helpful to see the full picture yeah sure so our that I can actually just open up and share with you right
from my platform right now so when we're thinking about chronic absenteeism rates across the district right now we're just under 20% overall um our white Learners in the district are uh roughly around
21% uh chronically absent and our Asian learners just under 10% chronically absent okay thank you for that additional information sure okay thank you so much as usual Dr Mike and we'll look forward to seeing
you in April because March we'll be having our CC Forum CC yes so we'll look forward to resuming our regularly scheduled programming on at our April meeting absolutely and folks if you're interested and want to want to volunteer or or participate in the upcoming events
we love to see you guys great thanks Dr Mike and thank you to those that presented the soapbox speeches that was a wonderful little addition to our meeting tonight and now we're going
to um speak about just as we mentioned the Community Education Council um I'm not sure if is Eden on the call tonight um no so Eden could not make it tonight because her daughter does not feel well so she had to take some time off to you
know make sure she's been taken care of but I'll talk about c um elections and it's update let me share my screen okay okay so there's a update on this CEC campaign so um the C uh elections uh
deadline to apply to run has been extended and will end on this Thursday February 27th so if you are thinking or you're interested or you know anyone who would be a great fit please encourage them to apply Thursday will be the last
day to apply to run for the cecc um candidate or call it CC elections um so hold on this is the timeline as you can see it's been extended to the 27 the next will be
the c um candidate forum and then the voting will take place around Springtime so there are we have over 1,000 C seats available Citywide as of last Wednesday's uh data report we have
1,080 applicants Citywide who apply for the CC uh out of those 1080 265s are from Queens and of um um from those 265 26 uh applicants are from District
25 so as I mentioned before these number data are from last week so I know these number are much higher now and I um we we we seen and we know that we have at least 28 parent applicants applying from
our our district this week and the number might be even higher on the you know next week on Thursday so next is um candidate Forum candidate Forum will be invited to attend the candidate Forum on March 17
during the president's council meeting to introduce them themselves and answer a few questions prepared by the president's Council following the candidates Forum will be the CC voting period all parents need to have uh the
next account to be uh to vote or to run for this CEC elections um so please make sure you have a Nexa account so you can vote for your favorite CEC candidate as they will be the voice of your child schools district if they get
selected and these were with the numbers uh data report that I shared before these numbers are based from all the districts we are District 25 and as I mentioned we have 26 applicants as of last week and this week we have at least
28 so in in April will be the voting um would be the voting period so this is the data report from last year as you can see we did not have a lot of parents vote last year the voted is the blue color
so out from 24,000 we only have 15 uh, 1500 parents voting for the c um candidates so we are just hoping we we'll have more parents vote this year so make sure your next account is um is
ready when we comes to voting period the next is school surveys um every year school parents are receiving a green envelope which is the school survey students in um hold on someone just entered the
room okay so besides the family who gets the school survey students in grade 6 to 12 are also getting them and the school staff and teachers um to fill out the school survey you have um received a prepaid envelope you can um so there's
three ways to submit the school survey you can use the prepaid envelope to submit the school survey or you can use your Nexa account or you can also go to this website it's called www and NYC school survey.org by using your child's
oses number in front of the N digit just o this number you will have to put um a letter lowercase f to to submit the school survey oh hold on so the time frame to submit the school survey takes place now
until April 4th the April 4th will be the last day to submit your school survey so if you haven't done it now by now please do it so the next president council meeting will take place next um next month on March 177
2025 as we mentioned before the next president's council meeting will also be the CC candidate Forum it will be a two hours meeting deac meeting our DPAC meeting will take place this Wednesday
um this Wednesday February 26 at 6 o' if you interested please join join us all our title one chair person will be joining at our DPAC meeting and the next CC meeting will take place on March 5th it's a hybrid meeting all CEC members must attend in
person to make quorums but there's also a hybrid link for you to listen in that can be found on our district 25 website Rachel okay so just to keep on everyone's radar um for the elections
for the next executive board I know may seems a way out but um we should start bearing in mind about forming nominating committees um which should be done by April for the elections in may we can encourage parents that are graduating
out to be part of the committee since obviously they would not be running for a position the committee should be formed of three to five members that are again not running for a position and they would be responsible for con um
encouraging um individuals to self-nominate or nominate someone that they know is willing to accept a position um they would help with drafting Communications however if no committee is
formed um the election would be an expedited election with all nominations taken from the floor and also just a reminder to make sure that you notify your principle by April 1st of the date time and meeting format whether it's
virtual or in person um again there's no um no hybrid um elections can take place that is specifically prohibited by Chancellor's regs a660 so then the next slide
provides um some updates from the CPAC meeting um some of the subjects covered at February CPAC meeting were um individuals um from the offices of program implementation and general
councel um a representative from the chief the one of the chiefs of policy and evaluation we had face updates various questions for Chancellor avales Ramos and there's the YouTube link you can search for CPAC NYC YouTube to view
any of the live streamed um meetings and the next meeting will be held on Thursday March 13th at 930 a.m. and all are welcome to attend via the live stream Again on YouTube and now is that uh time of the meeting where we open up the floor to
anyone who has questions any issues um that may think may impact you or your or someone else on the on the council um Now's the Time for you to speak up whether you want to put it in the chat or if you want to unmute
yourself and ask your question um about all things PTA related one thing we did have happen recently within the district was there was some questions from last Financial
year about uh missing funds and as was um relay to the school they needed to form an audit committee which would be uh from the membership not from the executive board to go back and review
the finances and no additional checks or um transaction should take place until that audit was completed and the results would be shared so that was one um incident that happened within our district recently well if no one has any
questions um if I could get a motion to end our February meeting of president's Council and state your name okay I'll make the motion Kim Williams from ps13 thank you Kim if someone could second the motion and state your name
please this is Jennifer barardi from ps21 thank you Jennifer it's 7:31 and that officially concludes the meeting of February's president's council's meeting for District 25 thank you all and we look forward to seeing you in March um
on the 17th for the C candidate forum and then we'll have a lot of questions for our 28 en counting candidates so thank you all for attending tonight and we'll see you in March thank you Rachel thank you
everyone