more be present to meet the quum so most of the business that we will be discussing today will have to vote at the next month's uh Jenner meeting now we'll do the roll call Eden
Ruben absent Char Le present Grace tus John Stewart ismot Jun here here Alvin Hong here Joseph CH pres Katherine sere and
shery Jane well um oh and I planed I found a arrrow on this one I'm sorry so Eden and John SW and isma did not uh did inform us previously
so their absence are excused and other members will is running a little late due to the weather conditions currently right now shley I'm I'm on Zoom Shirley oh yeah I understand but okay okay just wanted to make sure that's all now
um uh we uh now I'll give the floor to Dr dantona for the superintendent report absolutely thank you so much Shirley um and welcome everyone I'm super excited we have some of our students some of our staff members here I'm really excited to be with you
tonight um so that being said we'll get started with our CC report tonight share my screen okay so the items that we're going to be talking about today uh just a couple of updates and reminders um we
have a few Civics for all presentations with project soapbox we have two students that are here and one student that is on Via Zoom uh to share a call to action that each of them have I'm really excited for them to be able to present uh and I've mentioned during press past um CC meetings DT meetings
and president's Council meetings is that it's really important for me to to continue to showcase the work that our children are doing the research that they've done and the calls to action that they have on things that they are they themselves are passionate about uh so tonight we have three separate experiences that we will wind up hearing
uh from our students on and I'm looking forward to hearing their work so um stay tuned on that and then the current state of I ready and cadan diagnostic uh information I will give you guys an update in terms of where we are as of mid year um and the mindset of our work
moving forward uh for the remainder of the school year um happy Ramadan for all of our families that are celebrating across the district um I wish this time uh well for all of you that are able to celebrate at this time uh for our social workers
across the district that do so much for our kids and for our community let me just go big screen here um uh well wishing them an incredible week um and thereafter for all the work that they do on behalf of our children uh and our families across District 25 so thank you
for the work that you do women's History Month super super important time in our history there are so many women um that have made just such a tremendous impact on society and um all things that um we we at times unfortunately take for
granted uh with the the women that just do amazing things uh including sometimes those that are even closest to us you know so it's a special time to make sure that we we remind ourselves of uh the important uh women in our lives including those that have made an impact
on the history of um across the Globes and you're actually going to hear a little bit about uh about that tonight from one of our speakers uh from project sofox so I'm really interested to hear her her perspective and this is National reading month as you guys know reading super important for us here in District
25 we are pushing this across our district within the context of our priorities um and it's not that we need a month of March for it to be National reading mon month for us to be focused on reading um but there's an that added incentive of of staying close to our books and making sure that we're opening
them on a routine basis so uh real important that we continue to celebrate the Imports of reading here in District 25 and around our city for sure um so we do have a district 25 uh comic book event that is scheduled for
Wednesday March 12th um we have nearly 200 people that have registered for this event we're really excited about it uh the intent of this inent event is to Showcase some of the resources that are available to us uh from a from the New York City Pass Flor curriculum um and
the Civics for all work within within the context of that as we promote democracy Civic engagement and social justice so our families that do um do attend will engage in some interactive activities and have an opportunity to grab uh some of those comics on the way
out um you know I personally think they're they're great it's a nice way for our kids to to really engage in civic's work in a in a fun way many of our kids really do engage in those graphic novels and this is an example of how they can connect with reading in a
different way while also uh educating themselves around uh the Civic process so um I encourage you guys there is the registration link on um on this page uh if not you can go to d25c event to find more information on
um what is happening here um we are also hosting event and I'm not sure if Diana is on in the in the background there's Diana um who along with wing has done an amazing job of getting us or organized for our district 25 Wellness day um part
of Wellness day is actually a cc District 25 collaboration not only just for the wellness day but moving forward as we're really trying to promote Wellness um through a collaborative pilot that we are engaged in and part of uh in New York City where one of a of a
handful of districts in New York City that are piloting this collaboration and I'm really excited about it and this is kind of the kickoff to us really exploring what what do we want Wellness to look like sound like and feel like across District 25 and that's something that we're going to do together which
I'm really really excited about but I asked Diana to join us just to give us a little bit of an update on what uh Wellness day on Saturday March 15th will look like uh we have upwards of 275 uh families that have already replied and registered uh we will wind
up having a a cut off of around 300 people um as this is the first go round with this so we don't want to necessarily do more than um than perhaps what we want you know bite off more than we can chew and then have an event that is really nice and then becomes
disorganized just by volume so uh we're going to start with with that cap of 300 and hoping for a really great success for us to move forward but Diana could you give a quick little update um for the community around what this event is going to entail absolutely uh good evening everyone thank you for having me we are
super excited about next Saturday March 15 uh we are we'll be uh kick kicking off at uh 12 o'clock noon uh we're going to be at the common Point Bubble at uh Bay Bay Terrace sorry Bay Terrace uh and
also at 169 Bell Academy across the uh Street um we have upwards of um almost 30 vendors who will be participating um we'll have different kind of spots within those spaces we'll be using the turf the you know tennis court class
rooms the cafeteria movement space everything um so some partners that um are going to be shared with you tonight just to give you an idea of what we are going to be looking at we have uh USA which is the United States tennis Association we have blatant lacrosse we
have nycfc our you know soccer club um we will be having a local a local martial arts um Center coming in and then we'll also be having some more um more like classroom based Community
Health opportunities uh we will have the office of uh uh School uh food we we will have the office of school Wellness programs both from NY uh from our uh School District we are going to be having the relationship Foundation um we're going to be having
the uh Forest sale Inc I mean we're going we're going to be having a lot of vendors coming through to share what they can offer to our families as well as giving some stuff uh away which will be great um and we'll also be having uh turboo which is a a hot new thing in our
district many of our you know schools have it so definitely check out that station to learn more about what you know that is and we are super excited to have everyone next Saturday rain or shine hopefully shine so that we can get some things going um in the outdoor
space over at you know Common point you know huge shout out to them they have been wonderful in accommodating um us and really doing whatever they can to um you know make this you know great day happen so again we'll be having lots of
kind of movement stuff as well as some mindfulness um you know items and then definitely uh we'll be having a lot of tables um to provide the community and our families with what there is out there for everyone um that is you know
being offered uh we'll also have a large presence from the 109 Precinct they'll be doing some tables um and they'll also be providing uh you know crossing guards and just like police Pres so that we are safe you know walking through the busy streets and sidewalks and things like
that um so everyone has been super wonderful in making this day uh really wonderful so we look forward to everyone and thank you to everyone who has volunteered and you know signed up um we are definitely in the right direction and this is going to be a great huge
event and a celebration of Wellness which is a huge focus in our district so thank you Dr Mike thank you everyone for having us and if you have any questions feel free to reach out but we do hope to see you next Saturday hopefully in the sunshine thank you thank you so much Diana and of course for for the for the
community know Diana you know you know sometimes I just pitch these ideas and then throw them out there and you know I am so grateful that I have folks that just listen to those great ideas and then make them become um you know a real sorry folks we had a little bit of a
computer glitch on our end the main computer just uh shut down um but just to to kind of reiterate you know thank big thanks to tyana and wing for for organizing uh this event and making it become a reality as well as our parents
we've had just in my presentations with president's Council and the C we have parents that are willing that are Behavior Specialists as well as uh psychologists that are willing to to share in this space and offer resources for our families when perhaps there are
circumstances that we have some questions around how do we support our children at home uh or uh space of how do I have questions around mental health how do I what where do I go what questions can I ask so it's a really a One-Stop shop around Wellness in the sense of mental Wellness physical
wellness space of really good important nutrition habits um as well as social emotional learning so there are a number of things that are going to be available on this day that we're really excited about and I'm looking forward to it um moving up to the 15th so thank you again
Diana appreciate you um math family night we have um apparently I I did not checking too much with my with my own wife during um uh during this time because I booked a lot of events seemingly in a very short period of time so we have math family
night coming on Thursday March 27th um this will be the third of its kind this year so far they have all been really very successful um there will be a a range of math games activities for our families to engage in there are
giveaways um for our families as well as um snacks and such it it's been a really really great um set of of events and I do know that this one will be great as well now it is not just for Middle
School it's being held at JHS 189 but it's open to All Families across grade levels uh the last several were at elementary schools and we had children that ranged in age that attended um so I encourage our families to participate because it is a really really great
event huge shout out to Beth Eaton who um has done an amazing amazing job not only with our family night events but also support supporting our work in mathematics as a as a district creating a district math team with with parents lead teachers building leaders to really
make sure that the math instruction in our district continues to take rote um moving forward so big shout out to Beth um upcoming events already mentioned the the um the math family night we've already had our I ready session uh there's a special education
session that is going to be occurring on Tuesday March 18th uh and that is understanding the the IEP process for our children that are going to be going into kindergarten this is a really really important set of information for any of our families with children that
um May potentially um have been evaluated already or going into the space of being evaluated to receive an IEP in the fall um Nathan does an amazing job of just connecting with families making sure they have all the information necessary um and that space
of awareness sometimes that absence of awareness um does impact the choices that we make as parents so it's really important that for those that are um going to be engaging in the kindergarten process that they that they do attend uh it's only an hour long but chalk full of
information uh aadience workshops these were already held in February um you would have all of our families should have received an email from me uh about aadience making sure that you've connected uh with our schools around the reports um that come from acadians for all children in kindergarten through
second grade uh if you have not received those reports I encourage you to please make sure you connect with your schools can okay why is that I okay okay uh sorry about that everyone and um
in addition to aadience I've also sent out an email to all of our families in kindergarten through 8th grade um regarding I ready it's really important just as much as aadience that our families have tapped into the reports from I ready where are your children currently and then asking those really
important questions of our teachers and our building leaders around the progress of your child if you're not sure how to do that you can reach out to your school you can reach out to the district office and we'd be happy to assist you in that but it's really important that you're connecting in that way for your
child what happened there having all kinds of all kinds of fun going on right now sorry guys okay summarizing um application window opens on um yesterday thank you LS and it goes through March 28th so if this is
something that you were interested in please make sure that you put in that application do not wait um until the 28th try to get it in as early as you can applications are not first come first sered but it is a good idea to get get that application in uh before the
end of the window um so that you avoid any potential issues with technology and then you say that you couldn't get on for some reason on the 28th so Friday March 28th is the deadline families May rank as many summarising programs on their applications as they like and stills will be added to a wait list
automatically for any program they do not receive an offer to so just be bear that in mind really important if you're looking to have that summer program get those applications in kindergarten through fifth grade it goes from July 2nd through August 15th Monday through
Friday Monday through Thursday is the Department of Education part of the program Friday is um the community based organization and for grade 6 through 8 the program runs from July 2nd through August 8th again Monday through Friday 8
to 6 with Friday being the um full CBO portion of the program uh enrollment timelines Thursday March 6th high school offers will be released which is very very soon um so for all of our eighth graders you will you will have that notification coming
very shortly Wednesday April 9th middle school offers will be released Wednesday April 2nd kindergarten kindergarten g&t offers will be released Tuesday May 13th PRK offers are released and Tuesday May 20th 3K offers are
released gifted and talented uh for grades 1 through 4 Monday April 21st applications open May 9th uh the applications closed and June the 11th there will be the offers released now Civics for all uh we're
very fortunate we have um two students that are in the audience and one that is on zoom and I would love for for Melinda willins who's on our team who supports both uh Ela and social studies in the district as well as support Civics for all across all of our schools um just to
join us just for a moment to share a little bit about uh about the work and because she does so much work in this I thought it would be approp for Melinda to introduce um our speakers tonight uh for so Fox thank you Dr Mike um this is very exciting for us this is the first
year that a a semi-final round is being added uh hundreds and H well actually 55,000 students across New York City presented soapbox speeches in January and February um at borrow events and of
those 55,000 students three of our amazing District 25 students have been chosen to move on to the semi-final round which will take which will take place on March 25th at Washington Irving High School and
then this they will do a semifinal and then of from that semi-final and I don't know how many students are there but I think it's like under 50 the um 10 students from across the city will be chosen for What's called the main stage where they will present to um the
chancellor and a larger audience so we are very excited tonight to have um three of our amazing students here so we're going to start with ish Aurora from who's an eighth grader from
is237 and she is going to give her speech about gender inequality is a microphone right there oh you can stand in front if you want but the M I don't know if you want the microphone it's hang it's hanging in front you can use it if you like you don't you don't have to if you don't want
to good can I begin yes I would first like to introduce myself my name is Ish Aurora I am from is237 Q it's a very good school and flushing and I will be talking about gender inequality
glorious D once said gender inequality a gender equal society would be the one where the word gender does not exist where everyone can be themselves but don't we all still see people through their genders imagine being forced to marry under the age of 18 and spending
the rest of your life taking care of a family you may be assaulted frequently it is terrible even to imagine something like this right you wouldn't want to waste your life like this would you but this is what happens to many women around the world good evening I'm Misha
and I'll be talking about gender inequality an issue that is somehow snuck to be a very normalized deal in our society what is gender inequality gender inequality is the unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender females face gender inequality when
they're unequally treated and decline certain rights due to of them being females females have made history did you know they assisted in plotting the Boston Tea Party another fact the world's first computer programmer yes the computer you're using right now was aah LEL a female then what leads to
gender inequality gender Norms are one of the biggest reasons for gender inequality as safy children organization States gender Norms are social principles that govern the behavior of men women boys and girls and restrict their gender identity into what is
considered to be appropriate this means during their childhood children are taught what to do and what not to do based on their gender this leads to the female population having less access to education than males in fact according to human rights
careers.com of all the illiterate people in this world two3 are females furthermore a reason is shortage of employment equality as human rights career.com says only six countries in this world give women the same legal
Work cres men in fact three4 give in fact most economies give three4 the rights of men a followup fact that may shock you according to the 2023 gender pay Gap report in 2023 for every dollar a man made a female made 83
cents without giving them the same employment opportunities they are considered inferior all this gender inequality with females leads to gender based violence as women for women organization States gender-based violence is violence that
is directed towards an IND idual due to their biological sex or gender identity this includes physical sexual verbal emotional psychological threats and cision deprivation whether occurring in public or private life in other terms
females are abused just because of the so fact that they are females according to un women organization in 2022 48,000 females were killed worldwide by their Partners or family members IM imagine a world where
everyone is treated equally no one is discriminated against girls could live their childhood like any other kid females could educate themselves to become independent and if more females were given the same opportunities as males their ideas would help humankind achieve
more so what are we doing to make this a reality many organizations such as you and women save the children are working to make this world an equal place for humankind activists such as Malala yosfi are working to fight for girls education US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen is
working to solve the pay Gap issue these efforts are helping make equality a reality but as Emma Watson said we want to end gender inequality and to do that we need everyone to be involved so how can we contribute to helping females around the
world here's a few steps we all can take Take Action Now rally your classmates parents teachers to sign a petition advocating for gender equality present this petition at your local Council to drive change in our community listen and intensify survivor's voices doing so can
help advocate for those who have suffered in the past educate others about this topic many people don't even know that this is such a crucial issue in our society and finally speak up if you see or know someone facing gender inequality stand up for them inform
gender inform authorities and adults that can get help your voice can help save lives thank you [Music] I didn't even know what to say that was phenomenal thank you terrific job thank
you so much for being here and and using that voice um you know to to have that call to action and you know for for those of you in the audience that that may not know the project soap boox is really intended to make sure that our children have an opportunity to really have that call to action do that
research speak like an expert and that's what is what what is really so important it's not just that we're reading informational text but it's that we're able to use what we've learned in a productive way to speak like an expert and have a call to action and you did a terrific job of doing that tonight so thank you so
much all right our next speaker is Matthew Chase from PS 165 and he's in second grade you want hold theic turn thanks the audience you're
ready hello my name is Matthew Chase I'm 7even years old let me tell you a little about myself I love to write draw do art and I want to be an archaeologist I I have a little brother named marir and he is 2 years old the
problem I see in our community is that teachers are giving out too much homework this is an important problem that needs to be solved because homework can take away from our free time sometimes by the time I finish my homework it's my bested one does it
happen to you too after school is the time to spend with our family during the day we're at school and not with our family at at home we do homework and so spending time with family my little
brother also wants me to play but he can't because I'm doing my homework my solution to this problem is that teachers give out less homework just enough that we can remember what we learned at school day also we can have more free time with our family SI and
friends up there then we can play outside or play video games I think this is a good solution because we can have more time together with our family and brothers and sisters if you have brothers and
sisters please hear my idea kids should have less homework because too much homework takes away from our free time and time with our family thank you Matthew and I great job so Matthew you're so fortunate
tonight that your that your principal has shown up because I'm sure she is all years um to come up with some some interesting solutions to support your your concern and your problem that you are having um because I do know even as a parent sometimes uh when I at home and
I want to be able to spend time with my children sometimes it's their bedtime too um and they you know so I think I'm going to put a little space in there for my own homework that maybe I can cut out some of my own right thank you so much M you did a teric job way to
go and you know what what I what I appreciate about this process too is uh Matthew's a second grader and the entire time Matthew was speaking I was captivated and I was listening to what it is that he was saying because he had a message um and he did that with a
clear voice and made that eye contact contact with the audience so that we were glued into what it is that you were saying you did a really really great job um and it just shows it does not matter what age our children are that they can have a voice and use it to be very
productive so you did an awesome job and and I'm really excited that we're able to do this at these types of uh of meetings and we have another another student that's going to be presenting too and our final student from PSIs 164 is Sophia
B and she is going she's on on the the zoom and she her speech is about homelessness hi my name is Sophia f um I'm from psms 164 and today I'll be speaking about homelessness in New York City I'll never forget the day I walked around NYC and saw a poor homeless scene
on the street he was mumbling words to himself not understanding what was happening around him you might feel bad for him with fli him one however this is only one example out of thousands involving homelessness du to mental health issues in New York City that's why I Sophia F want to encourage
and promote the construction of mental health facilities for the homeless and help them as much as possible you may wonder why this is important and how it can affect you indeed having mentally ill homeless people living on the street can create can create concerns about public safety for others it could potentially make you
feel unsafe take it from a New York Post article which explains how mentally ill homeless people have intentionally hurt others around them it states we are seeing far more violent incidents for ment to Ill homeless people on our streets from the death of Michelle go in front of a Time Square subway train in January to the brutal stabbing of
Christina y Le inside her own Chinatown apartment in February as scary as it sounds these are only two examples out of hundreds involving violent incidents that mentally ill homeless people have committed in New York City this shows how unwell homeless people living on the street can affect others but
unintentionally creating unale Hotel environments for citizens of New York City another reason why we need a larger abundance of mental facilities for the homeless is because of what they've done to help our city and Country for instance when you see a homeless unlad person on the street can we think that
they haven't done much to support our community and most importantly our city however the opposite is true in fact according to nyn Media news article approximately 53% of homeless New Yorkers are veterans with mental health issues while one and a half million veterans are considered to be at risk of
homelessness in NYC this clearly demonstrates how most of our homeless population is made up of people who have risked their lives for the greater good of our country yet in return they're left on their treat without a home and suffering from mental disorders such as ttfd and bipolar disorder the final reason why we need to
increase the availability of mental health facilities for the homeless Li on the fact that the homeless are considered people of New York too and have their given civil rights think of it this way this person in our community contribute to the overall betterment of our city these people also include mentally ill homeless citizens we have
they were in mental facilities that would Aid in their health however others are letting them R outside with no help whatsoever it doesn't just affect them or you it affects our city as a whole not helping the mentally ill homeless citizens of our community but contribute to our largely divided Society it would
also socially isolate the homeless from the rest of us for example the New York Times article named helping homeless people who are mentally ill explains how many people and government officials in NYC often neglect and ignore the homeless especally those who are mentally ill their City by establishing a largely fit
Community would eventually lead to the homeless being isolated from the rest of the people living in New York as a result of no one helping the homeless and people completely disregarding their civil rights you currently know why this problem needs to be solved now you need to know how we can solve this issue or
how is this issue getting solved well the article NYC plan on helping mentally ill homeless people how our mayor Eric Adams is making a new attempt to build mental facility for the homeless and stated they will be taken to nearly built facilities that would be beneficial for the mental and physical health this demonstrates how there's an
attempt from the government to help solve this issue some ways we as citizens of NYC can solve this issue and help the homeless in need is by donating and showing support to the homeless assistance fund also known as HS or the institute for Community Living also known as ICL both nonprofit initiatives
are there to provide support for the mental ill homeless people of NYC by Building Homes and providing beneficial Mental Health Resources for them to thrive inside although some people have attempted to solve this major problem of mentally homeless people in our city this issue is still very much prevalent
everywhere in NYC not helping the Mally ill homeless residents in need but create concerns about Public Safety completely disregard what some of them have previously done to help us and would violate their given civil rights as people who contributed to this city if we help the homeless in need in any way possible we can still change
people's lives and help them mentally and physically helping the homeless heal helps our city Thrive together we can build a safer kind of Europe for everyone so let's help the homeless in NYC thank you well FIA what a terrific job you just did and you certainly gave me a lot to think about and you know the the
awareness that that we do need to have that that many of the folks that that do struggle are also those that have have paid a debt to uh that we owe a debt to for all the work that they've done on our behalf as being veterans so thank you for for sharing this speech and you
know you did a terrific job of of including um some research making sure that you you were clear with the audience uh great job public speaking tonight you did a great job nice thank you to all of our our of our
teachers um Miss willins had a group of of folks here today in the building working on Civics for all um as we bring our teachers together on a routin basis to really talk about the lessons that are available uh to teach in our schools uh but also to promote student voice we
want to make sure that our children have that opportunity uh to have that call to action to really promote their space of civic duty um and you know the the more that they can learn around that um at the earliest of Ages uh the the more productive we're going to be creating
the citizens of our future and the leaders of tomorrow so I'm really excited about about this work and I'm looking forward to seeing our next set of speakers during the next CC meeting in uh April okay let me reshare anyone have any any questions
about uh so box or anything before I move on I have a question regarding the summarizing yeah will you apply how does a parent know their child was application was complete yeah that that's a good question leis is there do get receive a um some kind of a of a
notification through the registration process that their registration went through for summarizing a receip they should get a receipt say again some kind of an email is it an email receipt Louis or is it right
to email yeah and at any time L my school account and you can see your application and what you know if it's what your choices were and you can actually make changes to the application at any time up until the dead I just I'm
going to ask you a question later thank you so uh DCP progress monitoring this is something that we do throughout the year we do it three times a year um and we're going to kind of talk a little bit about what what the current state of our work is as you know we share um share
throughout the year our Focus around making sure that all of our students learn to read well uh We've really been uh very intentional around uh implementation of what we call decodable text uh if you're not sure what the codable text is that that our kids are learning through a program called foundations which allows our integrity
which is the phic awareness where they learn around uh letter sounds the sounds that that letters make uh to the space of being able to decode uh what those sounds in the symbolic form to then use that information to kind of form uh words and part of what we what we did
learn over the the past uh past year was that there was a more application that was necessary for our kids to be able to read based on those skills which is why we spent a lot of time on um on to codable text at this point of the year
now year over-year uh we have not seen a significant change in terms of overall performance from students in kindergarten through second grade small decline from where we were from beginning year last year to beginning of the Year this year uh the the patterns
and Trends remain relatively consistent we have about 63% of our second graders currently on or above grade level uh stretching down to in in the 50s for our kindergarteners uh which is not um has not been uncommon for us over the course
of time now one space of this that I do want to emphasize is the importance that we do have to place on our English language Learners um inside of this work and more work that we have to do to kind of of build our new language Learners um into the space of being proficient
readers when we just talk about our general education students we're upwards of 80 plus perc of our children that are currently on or above grade level when it comes to reading but we know that our El's is an important group that we do need to continue to support so that they can become proficient readers over time
uh so it is a group that we're going to attend to and you'll see that in just a moment our Hispanic Learners are a fraction of a of a percent change from where we were last year um our black Learners did see a dip from where we were last year at this time uh
by about 2.4% our L Learners by about 0.19% from where we were last year uh only 33% of our of our Learners have managed to meet that space of proficiency again this is across K through two and the subgroup that made the most
significant progress from year overy year have been our students with IEPs uh by about 7 and a half% from where we were last year at this time to where we are now um so we have seen some progress with some of our subgroups but certainly not um not all when it comes to kada 2
at this time this particular goal I'm going to talk about um towards the end because we are just finishing our fall survey now uh winter survey now uh it'll be done by next week and I'll have an update on this for our next session uh as I mentioned to you the area that was most
important for us to focus on was around supportive School environment particularly this face of uh respect for one another student to- student respect for one another uh so we'll see what that result looks like after we get back um to our next meeting in um in
April uh providing uh um all students with a high quality academic experience uh this is something we've talked about throughout the year this focus on explicit instruction across our schools we have seen some progress for our kids in uh in all grades in um cross across
grades rather in um in Reading we've seen about a 2% change uh the goal by mid year was 2 and a half% for for the year uh year over-year so we have seen some progress when it comes to our Learners across grades three through eight um our Hispanic Learners did grow
by 3.67% uh year-over-year we are still under what our that Benchmark is that we set forth which was 10% across the year uh so we will hopeful for 5% at this point of the school year we still have more work uh to do in this area uh for
our black Learners we did grow by 3% year-over-year um again not meeting necessarily that five where we wanted to be by midy year but we have made some progress there uh our L Learners as you can see and this is this is something that we do
need to continue to emphasize uh it is difficult for our children that are new to the English language to meet standard proficiency on um on exam that is talking about grade level work um so Year over-year we're
still seeing roughly around now around 7% of our children that have met proficiency that are new to the English language so this is an area that we are going to continue to focus on typically research calls for 5 to seven years um for our eles to become proficient so we
do have a lot of work to do here and continue to emphasize uh that work inside of our classrooms um particularly with Standalone instruction where we're looking to build foundational skills that use of decodable text and building their content knowledge at the same time
um so this is an added space of emphasis that we are placing uh routinely in our classrooms to elevate this space and for our students with disabilities a three and a quar per change from year over-year where we were last year to this year uh when it comes
to the I ready performance mid year to mid year for our um mathematics work um again focus on math routines uh discussion in mathematics three reads protocol those are all part of the our work that we've been doing this year
inside of our classrooms uh it has resulted in some progress little under 2% improvement from year over-year for our Learners in mathematics uh what we wind up seeing in math different from um from reading is far fewer children that are multiple grade levels below uh
standard and more children that are in that space of one grade level below uh largely because of uh performance in geometry and measurement it happens every single year on the I ready assessment um mostly because the larger parts of the units of study around
geometry and measurement tend to happen in the latter part of the year and we have to do a better job of integrating it throughout the year so that it's not just something that they see and learn in March April and uh and May so um
needless to say there is typically the performance on the I ready um assessments by the time we get to the state exam we do outperform um significantly what the I already says in Moi um and is and the eii at the end of
the year too so um more to follow on this but we have made some progress for our learners for our Hispanic Learners uhi toi it's about a three and a half% change from uh last year at this time to this year uh for our black Learners about
2.4% change year-over-year uh for our enl Learners a 3.65% change year-over-year and for our students with IEPs a 3.37% change year-over-year and the the last group that I want to briefly talk about is the map assessment these are our
children that are currently slated to take the algebra one region um children that typically perform pretty well on the regions are in that high high average range and when I say pretty well I'm talking about those kids that were looking to be in that 80 five and above
range um this is about eight eight plus percent more than where we were last year these are different groups of children we have over 1300 children that took the assessment last year we have over 1300 children that are taking the assessment this year um and we have seen
some progress from uh year over-year when it comes to our children and the algebra one uh regions um this is something that's really really important to me we did send out our midyear uh survey to families just around making sure that
there are routine opportunities uh to receive information around the progress of their children so when I go to schools and I meet with parents they typically parents from our school leadership teams or uh parents that serve in as part of parent chats many of our parents talk about how
the schools inform them whether it's through parent engagement time or progress reports that are coming from the school um or receiving I ready reports or aadience reports those have been pretty common uh but we still have a percentage of families that indicate that they don't receive enough
information regarding the progress of the children which is why I did send out my um those mass emails uh to All Families in the district I will continue to do so uh just for the space of awareness to make sure that all of our families know that they should be connecting with our schools and vice
versa that our schools should be connecting with our families um so more to follow on on this we will continue to push that work moving forward between now and the end of the year year uh through that messaging with our building leaders but also to our messaging to our families uh the second portion of this
around academic and social emotional learning our schools have been charged by me to continue certainly the uh parent chats across our buildings but also to create like these relational opportunities for our families to engage in our schools um some call it first
Friday some call it families are for Friday families for Frid Fridays are for families welcoming Wednesdays together Tuesdays there's a range of things that our schools are doing uh one of our of our building leaders here had upwards of 300 folks waiting uh to to come in to
engage in one of these events where they're able to get into classrooms see what was going on in our classrooms um and have a better understanding and it's empowering for our parents to know how to support that so this is work that we will continue to do because I do believe when we create things that are relational our parents do want to be
involved they don't necessarily want to be involved if you say come for a workshop they will come in get involved when it's my child is going to be connected in some way shape or form uh so we're trying to create more and more of those opportunities across the district um so that our families can certainly be engaged but more
importantly empowered to help their children at home and to ask really important questions of our school leaders and our teachers and um I I leave off with this one every time because it is important
um our attendance is second highest in New York city so we do have an extremely positive attendance rate in District 25 um but at the same time we have lots of room here that needs to that we need to grow um the goal was
that we were going to have 4% reduction in chronic absenteeism rates which we surpassed significantly when it was November closing in on December since that point our attendance rates have dipped below where we were last year in terms of chronic absentee
small margins but still nonetheless we are below um Meeting those targets than where we were last year and that's something that we do need to continue to work on and change our schools all have teams that are focused on attendance they are working really hard to connect
with our families it's not always an easy thing because the winter months do bring a great deal of challenge uh whether it's through through the flu or covid or you name the the illness that does tend to happen uh but regardless of that we're going to continue to continue
to emphasize uh the importance of our children being in school every day um because we know when they are not in school performance winds up um getting impacted significantly so we're going to continue to emphasize it I want to make sure that our families know that we're
not emphasizing it because uh we want to give anyone a hard time because the child is out if a child is out and they're sick they are out and they are sick uh but if there's anything that our schools can do in support that's what I'm interested in because then we can do all that we can as a building to support
our families in any way that's necessary so um this is a really important space of um of our work as a district and will continue to be until our attendance rates really climb uh and that concludes my report I'll be happy to answer any any
questions that anyone has thank you so much for your report that Mike every time I hear your report I know it looks very simple to understand for the parents and for us too but I know how much how much you put the effort into these reports yeah my
pleasure I and listen I think there's I'm only giving you guys kind of the scratching in the surface which why any questions that you have we'll always be happy to answer any of them and and support certainly the CC but any of our families too so thank you for that and we're very excited for the wellness day
and thank you for Diana to you know she was our 2022 to 2023 and then she's the one who started the first B team and B has started again they have started B again and then she also I remember her mup presentation last year
April it was amazing and she Advocate physical wellness how it could have impact our not just academically their Wellness uh and any activities that they get involved so I'm very happy that I get to see her today too if I could just
say one more quick thing that I didn't mention I do want to thank um uh Craig from common Point Queens for opening his doors um I didn't mention him by name and it's important that I do so uh Mary varo from the UFT has been really instrumental in helping us secure
uh vendors for the event as well and I know Joe Kesler is a is a huge proponent of all things related to Wellness also and has been really pushing for this to um you know as a as a ufer as well so uh I thank them for their support and you know their willingness to engage in this
um as they help us get minded up we'll present as well to share in the in the event too thank you so much okay so we're going to move on to the next we for the president's report so her Eden um she doesn't have anything to report
as of right now so if there's anything that comes out she will bring it up next our count meeting our general meeting and also for the next do we have any public speaking any in the chat room or
anybody who sign up for the public speaking yes hi everyone Joe from the ufd um first I want to give a shout out to my own home school ps107 celebrating 100 years doing different things and uh it
was a privilege to spend 30 of the hundred years there so um just wanted to say that secondly Matthew that has been a topic for the longest time and as a teacher I'm 100%
on your side now you haven't gotten to high school yet I had this issue I played Sports in high school I didn't get home until 7 8:00 and I lived in the area at Bayside High School each teacher gave 45 minutes to an hour
of homework that's five teachers think about almost four hours of homework at night starting at about 7 or 8:00 depending on when I ate and I was up until all hours of the night
sometimes finishing it in the morning and it's a big problem so I agree with you 100% it's way overboard so I'm hoping that your message gets across not just at the elementary level but the middle
school and high school so thank you and the other speakers were just incredible as well I love when students get an opportunity to come here and speak um one of the topics I wanted to mention yesterday you may have seen
throughout the City Queens our district teachers staff wearing um all red and that was to fight budget cut usually we fight budget cut City and we're battling with the mayor and the council this is
more of a really big problem because it's Federal and you know you may have heard they want to do away they fire Lindon McMahon as the head of Education to do away with the Department of Ed it's a
serious it's not it's not a threat and um we were out there the AFT American Federation teachers Randy ni the state the ufd um because we can't exist honestly the city cannot exist or any other City
without Federal funding and the president is trying to push take away that money for our Title One programs and Way Beyond that and give it for vouchers you know not so much the charter it's a voucher issue
and we're going to continue to be out there this um know it's in the in the and it's things are moving fast but we're going to be out there fighting and um you know our school system needs Federal funding because it comes down to
the state and and towards the city so that's what we were doing it was wear red for red education and um the message is going to be continued that we need our schools we have the best schools here in the city and there are other
states as well and um we can't let that happen so there's conversations um and hopefully uh they're hearing our message and the last thing I want to introduce is um somebody who I had asked to come
so people parents teachers and staff get to see I know Dr Mike in the district office knows uh Nicole Passaretti she is what's the UFT District coach for reading so Nicole you'll come up and just for a couple of minutes just explain what you do and who where you
came from and all that good stuff but she is really great um and I've gone to a lot of the teachers Cent the workshops in Manhattan and throughout I think we have six or seven eight schools that are teachers Senter schools but Nicole works
with other schools um because our teacher Center Schools already have the training in the reading programs uh so thank thank you hi everyone um thanks so much for having me tonight I'm very very happy to be here and to be a part of
District 25 um I am Nicole past I am the UFT District coach supporting the new shifts in literacy instruction um I came from District 30 I was there for a very long time and I'm very happy to now be in District 25 supporting the teachers
therefore supporting students so some of the things that we're doing to support the reading shift is working with the teachers during the day in the classroom with the students um we are focusing on the into reading curriculum which a lot of people have heard a lot about
probably mixed things um but we're really trying to tailor to work for the students that are in front of us to meet their needs and to meet them all um strong readers who have success later on in life we're doing this through in classing coaching a lot of modeling and
co- teaching as well as professional opportunities um that are offered after school hours for teachers to join in so hopefully through all this work that we're doing in the schools we're making the impact that is impacting students um if there are any questions anyone can
reach out to me at any time if you want to hear a little bit about curriculum um a little bit about things that we're doing or any concerns um that you're seeing with your students or children uh you can reach out to me at any time and i' be happy to answer any question again thank you so much for having me and I'm
so happy to be part of District 25 there any public uh speakers from the zoom by so we're GNA move on to the next new business do we have any new business that any council member wants to
share anything no okay now we'll take a turn like to go first second thank you okay so uh well mention to the families if they
want to take their kids just for the families that are that are here you move into the business meeting yes yeah so now for here I AG with you my homor
thank you I'm I'm sorry oh yeah Will nothing everything I see any so it's
my all right now we we'll move forward to the business meeting let's pull the business meeting to order it is now 8:16 p.m. I'll do the quick roll call Eden
Rubenstein Charley Lee Grace Horus John Stewart isma junja here Alvin Hong present Joseph Chow present Katherine
sener yeah and Robert was wzor he's here okay he's here and okay so for business meeting so what uh for approval of a fa minut we need a one
more currently we have one yeah we're missing one um member one more uh member in person to be presented meet the form so that we could move forward to approve a f meeting so we have to move it to the
next monthly um General meetings and also U Mar mentioned that we do have to vote on absence so what happened is so February Bob was absent so we need to vote on whether it was
excuse or un excuse and for March for is is in person not on line in person uh Eden r Eden isad and John we have to vote on if it was um excuse on it that that's the rule so we're voting on it
like tonight we're voting on who next meeting we have to do I'm just letting you know okay okay okay and then we'll also vote on February minute uh next month and now we're going to move on to the treasur report good evening
everyone finally I got to speak been asked to speak actually I was asked to speak Last Time by Eden um we allocated $1,778 for equipment that was all spend so have a balance of I believe a nice
computer thank you thank you Uncle Joe reimbursement we allocated $111,000 we spent uh $ 5,925 uh as a result of which we have $575 left meting expenses we allocated
7,762 we spent $260 we have $752 left we allocated $500 on the PE card we haven't spent it so we5 $500 on it we allocated 3,700 I mean
$3,870 for equip supplies we spend $3,201 we have now $699 left we allocated $90 for repairs nothing broke so we haven't spent it we have a zero no we spent something broke
we spent 9 $90 fix okay so we have zero that I'm done thank you thank you for your thanks to uh thank to so now we going move on a ceremony
the so for the a ceremony Louis will put the email out for us to get names and we need to decide what we want to order for um order so at the moment we we have to we have to um continuously discuss about
the award s through the emails for now so that hopefully next business meeting we could kind of settle what we're going to order and so so far so on so on student and two stff members just like last
time but that that that's just my opinion so maybe we should hear from them too all right so any new business to share uh I have a new business but before uh we continue i' like to
introduce marabel to talk to us about the updating of our CC bylaws and also the issue of having our own CC website so hello everyone Hi so according to New York State
education law um because Community Education councils are autonomous bodies they need to have um their own website particularly when they have amended um they have passed hybrid resolution so once the hybrid resolution is passed two
things need to happen um first is the bylaws amendments and updates to the bylaws to reflect how you operate in the virtual environment um if a member is unable to come in person and they're joining online when are they allowed to do that
right if um someone's out of town for work right maybe they can't come in person but they're able to join from wherever they are and you may say okay that's a reason to join virtually right um because all members are expected to be in person
so you want to make sure that it's very clear when you're joining online um the other thing is the website the website needs to have all of the video recordings all of the minutes all of the notices um all of those things need to
live on the website and and anything else that you would um to put there Mar on the uh when we adopt the hybrid format and the rules for that if a member is able to attend remotely is can we pass so that that person is
able to vote and present in meeting as a voting member so um by the state law they can only vote virtually if there's Forum in person or if they have a medical accommodation which makes them
physically unable to okay so traveling for business is not MediCal accommodation how about for religious reasons it depends on what the religious reason is well like Ladon people aren't
here so I think I guess would have to ask legal about that because I'm not sure what's the reason um to not be here so I understand like needing to break fast right and that that might be an excuse absence or reason that the council is comfortable allowing the
member to join virtually right um but as far as I'm counseling for Forum if you're physically able to be here here but you're not coming because um you want to celebrate your holiday in a certain way which you consider the excuse absence but legally it may not
count towards Forum okay because i' have the same question tell happens to be Ash Wednesday There's a 7 o'clock mass and yeah some people wouldn't be here for that as well right so they could be considered an excuse absence right but virtual attendance it may not be counted
as Quorum for the virtual event yeah because we suffer for quum meeting Quorum all the time so any way that we can do do an accommodation that allows us to reach Quorum that' be great because we're not going to get any business done this week this month and
it'll be deferred to next month so yeah it's something we're constantly battling and I I think people are pretty conscientious they're not not showing because they don't feel like being here they're pretty conscientious but we you know but your council is unique in that way how's how's that where a lot of the
members are very conscientous and there are some sometimes when people may take advantage of that right and so you don't necessarily have that situation here but the reason the law is that way is to make sure that people don't take advantage so it's kind of like a
blanketed right it's the law applies to to all the couns so but I could but I could also reach out to legal to our legal department like I'm I'm fine doing that just to make sure work um but I but I
did speak to someone you know before just to kind of get that guidance but I could you know confirm that with people did they ever give a justification as to why they raised the quum number 6 to seven um the reason the quum was raised is because a member was
added which is at Le 75 parent rep and so quum is 50% plus one so the entire council is 12 and it doesn't matter if there's vacancies it's the whole number of people that are allotted to the
coun that makes no sense for me but anyway thank you I have a question uh you did mention that if the member uh cannot physically attend the meeting because they maybe let just say medical reasons they have
to stay at home or maybe could be betr but they can do are able to go on Zoom or even you know talk to other members do they vote by proxy them if there's a medical accommodation and they're physically unable they would
be able to so then then we could have a forum but with those special how the medical accommodation work so whatever somebody gets I mean is that we
just agree that okay C gets a medical accommodation because whatever reason and or how does that work there would need to be medical documentation okay so the doctor is going need to say that there's it could be maybe if there like
imun compromise if but not the flu or not that kind of sick like okay okay you
[Laughter] all it's contagious all right is there any new business so I would like to add to um what what we had mentioned before about having our own website I just would like
to uh suggest that you can go on to uh C uh CC Council 24 26 which are both based in Queens uh you can go take a look at their websites and uh you know see how they operate in terms of having their
own monthly meetings um documentations the minutes that are in there along with uh members uh information in there and there was another website from cc2 which is based out from Manhattan uh they also have
their own website and they're run by uh doe vendors websites I understand the reasons why we need to do that but I just think it's unfortunate to to lose the spot also on the district's page it's like it makes sense
that it would be all together too but I I know it's not a not even I don't even know why I said it because it's not a fight but I can fight there there are links that you can you know put a link from the district to go
to the CC and then vice versa CC put a link goes back to the district for parents you know make it accessible for them but it is what it is yeah May recogniz were you going to
mention the vla committee oh yes uh so uh in charge after having a meeting with our president uh she had asked me to see if I can you know take a a lead in in in having this committee I would I would
hope to have a few more members from this Council to work with me in terms of the bylaws uh so that you know come July of 2025 when there is a new uh CC board that would uh be coming in that we would
have the bylaws you know updated and clarified for them how about so do you want well I will I will probably like you know send an email you know just to see know get a feedback from the other members okay I know that tonight we have
uh three members that are not with us in person then we volunteer them oh we'll put our minds into it and then you know I'll give like some suggestions to our president I would like to volunteer if I
am allowed to of course you're thank you much appreciated yeah because I I worked on the bylaws for the PTA um before so perfect yeah just past practice with
the bylaws from the CC has resulted in things being added um that I think are really important including the special education meetings that are now picture of what happens every year in October um that happens as a result of the work that you guys were able to do in past CC's um so anything that you do in there
is really going to kind of dictate some of the things some of the some of the business that you wind up conducting to as as a team so um really important work is there any new business that you guys want to share I have a
small things that I wanted to share so I've been talking to a lot of parents in my my school ks32 and uh you know I like to promote Wellness as well not just Wellness day well what we are trying to Advocate right now as our district whole is the
wellness of our children Wellness of teachers the wellness is a big keyw right now so I've been talking to a lot of parents and then their main concern was two things one was I mentioned before two hour commending one was definitely
buing number two was actually number two second one was more concerned it was about drug issues how because most of the parents fifth grade parents now their kids are going to Junior school and they they realize that in junior school they're more exposed to because
they could walk home on their own and now there's in our neighborhood there's a lot of vaping stores and that's how they get in hands of The Vaping and Etc so the parents um
uh are very are worried and they also want to suggest directly to doe that is there any program in school like a health education that they can learn about it so that it it's not a it's not good thing like they they want uh school
to get involved to kind of educate the children about it so that I I mean health education is part of something that all of our kids have to experience um I'd have to go and look to see whether or not there's a specific space
around uh around vaping um but I think that's just around healthy behaviors and and how do we engage in conversations with that and and honestly I think maybe it's something that we can do in a in a larger space and maybe even one of these forums um to engage in that kind of
conversation because yes we we do get worried about our kids you know going past stores that have that but it's also about making sure that we've engaged in those really important conversations as families um you know what do we say how should we be saying it to our kids and
what does that look like sound like and feel like because we can always certainly engage in those discussions at uh at the school level uh but that there's that that layer of trust that we have to have with our own children that I have with my own mine are in eth and 10th grade and uh there are certain
rules and sets of expectations that I've set with my children uh that they know what my beliefs are and what I expect of them um and they also know the the ramification of a court choice if they choose to make that choice so yes we can do and support
that at the at the school level and perhaps it's a bigger conversation around how do we help parents navigate through that um you know as parents because it's not always that that easy when um when a child makes that poor choice how do we respond so maybe perhaps some supports inside of that and
that can be part of our conversation as a wellness collaborative that we're going to be doing around topics that we want to make sure that we're touching on as the year goes on um you know just in terms of family support Community Support um so that's something that we can certainly talk more about as as we engage in this
collaboration for sure I just want oh Irene oh hi arene hi hi I hope I'm not intruding in this uh you know your business meeting unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to really meet the me MERS
of c and I congratulate you all because it was a fascinating meeting uh the reason that I wanted address you is that the burrow president has established um it's really A New Concept he's meeting with the chair people from the community
boards the education chair people once a month and there's a lot we found out that we weren't even aware of uh we we knew there are things going on uh it seems that the um bar president is asking us uh if we know of any needs
budget needs that the community board that the community boards can support that CC needs with different uh small programs or whatever and what I just want you to know is that I am that rep from the
community board and I want you to know that you can call upon me anytime if you find that there is a need for some kind of budgets you know we're talking about he's got $40 million or something he's got a lot of money and uh I think we
have to make use of it if something that you need applies so just that's what I wanted to come on to tell you uh Mike knows me he knows where to contact me so if you have anything or you want to know anything I could find out at these
meetings we're very excited because I'm learning about the other queens boards and what their problems are and you know what can I say District 25 doesn't have the kind of problems thank God that go on in other districts you know and I'm
very proud to say that but if you do have any knowledge or you're aware of something that you need money for especially the C I know you don't get a big budget but you might have things that fit into what the B president would
say support so please feel free to contact me you can do it through mik or you can get the community board I can give you my number they'll give you my number you know and we can discuss it okay thank you so much it was a
fascinating meeting I took all notes Mike I wish I had all that on paper I scrible scripp I have to make my reports I do right thank you so much arene thank you all be well and for those of you who do not know Arlene Arlene is a former uh
president of of CC was actually responsible for the development of of lots of things but in particular the school that's right across the street 242 uh so during her uh her tenure was responsible for 242 and the development of 244 among a host of other things it's
always been a tremendous advocate for uh for this district and and our district community and certainly continues to do that as a community board representative so we're always so excited when Arlene's able to join us but also to to offer support when she can so thank you arene
thank you good night everybody thank you so much you I I I also create a dra form of the we were talking day so I share it with you this
morning so please feel free to love and also if you want to share it with your community I did it and I have already close pay ANW oh awesome yes that's terrific yeah yeah yeah so does anyone
have any any thought about the day that I kind of proposed to do them kind of piggyback off of this would it be too hard to get here maybe even if we did it for 45 minutes before this meeting does anyone have any thoughts on that as part of the part of our um Wellness
collaboration in like a once a month type of thing cin you're looking at me you're looking at me right have two [Laughter] sandwiches oh my God I and I ate me today and I'm like I'm on the phone my
my son said oh dad you know no me today I'm like oh no yeah so I flew that one day one if not if not can make it then we can always make sure we fill in everyone inside of that space I know that time is
precious and we don't have a lot of it um especially when we have children jobs everything else in between um say will be meeting with well ADV so I was attending it at home but we finish
sary so I come here yeah the next month not the same same day yeah so can we tentatively say was like can we tentatively say um that we'll put it for just 45 minutes
maybe before the CC meeting we'll tentatively put it out there and then you guys can give me feedback as the weeks are coming if it looks like that's just Mike that's not going to happen then we'll figure out something else during the c meeting at some point uh to establish what that date and time will
be for me to call that meeting uh together um because I'm I'm really really I I I can't speak for any of you but I'm really excited about what we can get accomplished uh with this face of Wellness I do think there are a lot of needs in lots of different ways yes whether it's through the space of mental Wellness through the space of social
emotional learning allowing our kids and families to learn how to manage through difficult times there's just so many reasons whether it's you know a a personal life a work thing a a a school thing there's so many reasons that things can get into our own headp space
that makes every day difficult um so I do think that we create an opportunity as a district to figure out what can that look like across our school across our district putting a definition on it and then creating space for what that can be not just in an event like a
wellness day that's a fun day right we get to share information but making it a sustainable practice I think is even an even bigger chore that we have and I think if we do it right it can be really beneficial to our community but our schools too so we I'll put out a tenative email that
we'll cry for 615 uh maybe we 6:15 whatever I don't want to even put a put a name on it because it's like 615 you're GNA need a reminder I I'll put it out into the CC so you get a blast that will give you a reminder email that 6:15 on that day we
do the best that we can if it doesn't work out we'll try another day um just to kind of get us started and getting the uh you know the ball rolling um in terms of the survey I have to be honest Grace I have not had a chance to to review it yet but I will um and I I
think it's a great opportunity for us to get feedback from our community in this area so uh encourage all of you did anyone else get feedback by the way anyone have a chance to speak to any parents about this other than the The Vaping scenario which I know is a concern uh but anyone else have any any thoughts around or hear from any
families around Wellness I haven't I haven't spoken to the parents about but I I do remember that I don't know they recently you know changed the law and like aren't certain business near schools have to be like a certain
like distance from from schools that you know they're not allowed to operate it's on like the walking path kid passing it anyway even if it's not across the street or right next door it's on their way and it's like far enough away from school that like
they're out of the purview of other adults that would see walking in there but you know it's but so so they wanted to get away with doing the wrong thing nobody's gonna T them right unless
they've got and and I really do believe those conversations that you have at home with your children are so so important yes we can do that at the school but there's got to be that that Mutual relationship between parent and child and certainly school and child but um there there's something that I always
think about when it comes to this and and it is what my father would say to me anytime I left the house and I'm not trying to sound like a goody goodie cuz I certainly made my mistakes growing up too um but before I left my father would say the same thing same set of words Mike do the right thing before I left
the house every time before I left and and you know what as a kid I'd wait till he said it because I had to hear him say that before I left the house Mike make sure you're doing the right thing and that's what he left me with every single day that I left the house and because of that I tried as much as possible to not
do something that would disappoint him as my father so um I think there's a balance between that and how do we make sure that families that struggle with that also have the knowledge around how do they create those boundaries with their children so that more often than not they make the right choice and not the one that gives you the AA and say
why did you do that yeah why would you do that right and it's gonna happen it's gonna happen kids are G to make mistakes it's we just hope that more often than not they choose the right path rather than the wrong one yeah go ahead um I like what you said why did you do that because that that's that's after the
facts um one of the issues many of the parents have that they cannot communicate the children because children don't speak whatever language Chinese whatever whatever dialect they speak and parents don't speak English so the only commun they have is give me
money that me money I'm hungry can I there's no nothing else mean I as parents I mean like I don't know 10 20 parents ask you the most ridiculous question right then I realize because they don't
know yeah right and then they can't they will say to me how do I say this in English my child and that that's an issue because they can't have that conv right I told myself no drinking no
smoking drugs nothing right he goes Dad I know don't worry but I tell him I said if you want to drink let's drink at home no no no it's okay I'm not right but some parents don't have enough because they can't yeah listen but I think that's part of this
conversation too right how do we open up that opportunity and space for folks that have that difficulty how do we how do we Ridge that that scenario too because there are lots of barriers that exist truly lots of barriers that exist that just being one of them um which is
like I said why I'm excited about this it's it's school yes being able to communicate with kids but there's nothing more important than the parent having that discussion with their own child um you know and being able to communicate effectively so I agree I agree there's there's lots of work to be
done there but I I will send out something tenative 615 for for us the next time um I'm going to look at the survey um I'm I'm sure it's terrific and then we can start getting it out there more frequently just for you guys to gather some as just touching Bas with
parents on your way into the school just something to a worrying we're wondering about and then it'll help form our next steps as a group okay another about the main issu that cents are because for now I only P three
questions about slogan about the why and any additional comments but we can take ADV back this for but it's like the first that was the our ini pleas free sh
conc yeah no I love it I think it's a great great first step for us to make a definition around Wellness for District 25 I I'm I'm really excited about it I really am any more businesss I just have one last question he still didn't get the answers from the chancellor that they
didn't answer at the last at the Town Hall mayel do we have any any feedback around the answers from the I don't but can you send an email yeah yeah and that's something I can follow up with too okay I'll follow up on it
also I also need an email and the name of the person who in charge of translation you did okay I'm gonna look again is in simplify Chinese by the way my budget was not you mind send sending it to me again
because it's too many emails from you you get too many really for good really for good okay the I put it nicely the ones that never like went to high school or college in China they can't read it they
take touch it and there all kinds of mistakes they translate the chancellor twice differently I have a feeling they're using Google translate right okay if you're using Google translate it's a matter of clicking simplifi Chinese or complicated that's just just that simple you can do
both both I I I get it I wouldn't be able to look at either of those of those two and make sense of whether or not it's in simplified or it is on my bucket list to be able to learn all going out Chinese communi I will say 80%
of couldn't read it right we don't want that no 100% I I get it I get it me to adour adjourn second thank you guys thank you
you good night good night good night good night night