Welcome everyone. Thank you so much for being here. Um I know everyone's taking you know your personal time out to be here for us to have a successful DPAC election. So thank you so much. Uh tonight is September 30th and we're going to be conducting our DPAC
election. Let me share my screen. Does everyone see my screen? >> Oh, >> yes. >> Thank you so much. >> You're good, Jenny. >> Okay. So, we do have a pack agenda tonight besides the election. Uh we have uh
Superintendent Dr. Mike here. He's going to do our opening remarks and then we'll also have our de deputy superintendent, Mr. Sarin. And then we're going to go over the title one, have an overview what title one is, and then we're gonna, you know, conduct the election. After the election, we're going to review the
DPAC bylaws. We have trying to review it uh since March by doing an amendments. But since we never um didn't meet the quorum since March, we just, you know, have to review them each month that we uh have the meeting. And then I'm going to announce some of the upcoming meetings and then open up the floor for
any questions. Uh we have meeting norms. We start and end on time. Sorry, we are eight minutes late. It's one voice um when when speaking. This is a safe space to speak. It's one, two, three, and then me. If you spoke already, allow three people to speak before you speak. Again,
we're here to respect all. We are here to be present and engaged and involved. Um before I'm gonna before I'm um giving the floor to Dr. Mike, I'm gonna re we're going to review the minutes from March, April, and May, and June. and
hopefully we can uh have someone make a motion to approve them. These are all listed here. And again, our slide and meeting documentations can be found on D25.nyc's website. That's our district website under public meetings.
Let me quickly go over the March minutes for our DPAC meeting. Um it was a virtual meeting and our chairperson was Katherine St. Pierre. Uh we will welcome everyone and call the meeting to order. We had the superintendent's report and
the family uh support coordinator which is me. I u gave an update of the um DPAC's roles and responsibilities. Um we ensure that all DAC members have access to the bylaws. As we were talking about amendments to the bylaw, we were going
to change the quorum from 8 to 5. uh due to uh lacking of the quorum we were uh not able to um make any changes yet and then we were talking about the CC elections update and then school survey. Let me know if you guys want it bigger.
Okay. Okay. Is this okay? Um and then we had the CPAC updates. CPAC is uh where we um attend the city pack meetings monthly and get updates from
then and then when we get some information we'll bring it back to our meetings and turn key to our school community and then we mentioned about a few upcoming events which is the CEC meeting president's council meeting and DPAC meeting and then we will talk about summarizing updates and then meeting
adjourned that was for um March meeting do I get a can I get a motion for approval Motion for approval. >> Thank you. Can I get a second? Can someone second the motion? >> Second. >> Thank you so much. And let me go over
the let me close March minute and go to our April minute. Okay. April minute was also a virtual meeting. It was on it um it was conducted on Wednesday, April 30th. Um Jenny Chang me
I call the meeting to order at 3:06. Dr. Mike um welcome everyone and Katherine Sierre which is our DPEC chair she uh outlined the meeting norms. We um were not able to approve the March meeting so
we tabled that for the next meeting and then superintendent Dr. Denona he gave his report. Uh he talked about upcoming events. He talked about enrollment and timelines. He talked about testing season, district events, youth leadership team, art funding, yearly sprint initiative, C development goals
and for next year. And then we would introduce all our DPAC meetings. Uh we had Katherine Sierre as chair and we have um Crystal Gonzalez as secretary. We had no one for alternate. It was vacant. It's been vacant for a while. uh
and we again reviewed the DPAC bylaws in hoping that we would meet the quorum to make the amendments but we did not. So we tabled that for the sec following months and we talked about the CEC election updates and I updated um everyone about the CEC
u voting period and demonstrated how uh parents could vote on the Nexa account and encourage everyone to um to vote. And then we um talked about upcoming meetings uh the usual CEC meeting, president's council meeting and DPAC
meetings and we open the floor for question and Dr. Mike he emphasized the important of votings for the upcoming uh CEC party that we held at PS32 and we thank everyone for being here at the BPAC meeting adjourned. Can I get a motion for approval for our April
meeting? >> Motion for approval. >> Thank you so much. Can someone second um motion the um approval for for the April meeting? >> I second the motion. >> Thank you so much. Going to close this
one and I'm going to go to our May meeting again. May meeting was conducted virtually on May 29th. I welcome everyone and only noted that we were only four parents um present. we uh did not approve the minutes as we were not
meeting quorum. So we were tableabling that for the June meeting. Dr. M provided his um superintendence's report. He was talking about college saving program which is NYC kids rise uh how important it is and he was talking about districtwide initiative and then
we introduced our um DPAC members Katherine um and Crystal and again the vacancy of alternate was still um not filled and then we reviewed the DPACK bylaws in hoping to meet the quorums but we did not so we tabled that for the
following months. We gave some um CEC um updates how voting um uh rolled out and then we um the result was shown in July and then the voting party we again emphasized that we had a voting um at PS32 where we will supporting every
parent who have any questions regards to CEC and then we mentioned those upcoming meetings again CEC meeting president's council meeting and DPAC meeting and then um the goal for the following months would be having at DPAC election and approved BPAC bylaws and we open the
floor for questions and we adjourn the meeting at 652. Can I get a motion to approve the May minutes? >> Motion to approve. >> Thank you. Can someone second motion it?
Jenny, do you do Oh, I was going to ask if if the person would have had to be at the meeting to approve. >> Um, I did speak uh with my um with a colleague who who works for the
super um high schools. He advised me that they don't have to be there. So, that's why I'm reading all the points up and make sure that we did everything that we have been, you know, putting on the minutes. >> Okay. I wasn't sure. So, It's just basically it's just basically an
acknowledgement, Angela, that um Yeah, >> that was my question too because I know we have a new group of parents and they were not present at March, May, April. That's why I seek advice and he said that's fine as long as I'm giving out all these, you know, details and >> and hopefully Yeah,
>> got it. Thank you. >> Let's go to last one. Last one. June meeting which is uh the DPAC election. So June meeting was held on um oh did I not click on the right
um let me see. Oh okay so I guess the date is wrong. Okay June meeting was held on I apologize. Let me double check. It was held on June 25th.
I want to make sure I have the correct minutes. I did click on this one. Correct. Okay. So, I guess the date is wrong. I apologize. It was held on June 25th.
I welcome everyone to the DPAC election and the final DPAC meetings of 2024 and 2025 school year. Um the superintendent Dr. Mike um he was not present. So we have our deputy uh superintendent give out the superintendent's report. He was
talking about the end of the year progress report and then um he mentioned about the priorities. Priority two is physical and emotional safety. Priority three is high quality academic experience and then priority four is math readiness and priority five is
chronical absenteeism. And then uh again we did not meet quum so we could not approve the minutes from March, April and May. and um and we table them for the following month which is today September um 30th.
Um again I introduced all the DPAC members which is Katherine and Crystal. I reviewed the update and talked I reviewed the bylaws and talked about the update but again we did not meet quum so we could not get approval. uh we um
talked about DPAC election and we will postpone it to September since we did not meet quorum. So we have the three vacancies of pack chair alternate and DPAC secretary. Um I myself also give an overview of title one and pack over about title one and
pack. I review um the responsibilities and what title one is and what they do and I open the floor to for questions at the meeting adjourned. Can I get a motion to approve the June minutes for our DPACK meeting? >> Motion to approve.
>> Thank you. And someone second motion. >> I approve. >> Thank you so much. Okay, then I'm going to close the minute and we can move on to Dr. Mike. Um, okay. Before I give you the floor, Dr. Mike, again, um, today is the title one DPAC U election. So, it's
going to be, um, trying to fill the three vacancies, chairperson, alternate, and secretary. and DPAC election is uh if you get elected is a two years term you will be holding the seat for 2025 to 2027 Dr. Am I going to stop sharing so you
can give out your report? >> Sure. Hi everyone. Good evening. Thanks so much for uh for being here and you know most importantly for uh all that you do for your schools just as you entered. I heard you know number of roles that you're already assuming as as
parent leaders. So I thank you for the time that you give and devote to um to your schools, your communities and most importantly the students in in the district. So, um I know that this is another layer of of fund for you. So, I appreciate you for, you know, for taking
the time to support uh to support our efforts. Um I my my reports can go can go long. I'm not going to do that to you tonight cuz those of you who have experienced things with me, I um I'd like to share as much as possible um be as transparent as possible with you
around the things that we're doing. Uh, but because I know that you have elections, I will try to keep my my commentary as brief as I can, but also to give you a little bit of information in terms of where we're at, um, as a district community. So, uh, first and
foremost, you'll see on on here this notion of let's get stronger than ever in in 2526. Um, you know, our mindset here in the district is around this notion of strong roots, strong schools uh, as part of our vision statement around building those strong foundations. And for us as a
district community, we want to get them to be as as strong as we possibly can uh this school year. So, uh a few things that that lead into that um into that work is this idea of connection before content. Uh something that our kids and
our and our adults in the building um are going to be really charged with by me uh in terms of relationship building. Um I know we talk about academics quite a bit and rightfully so. Um, but in my opinion, uh, one of the things that's going to help us get to where we want to
be is by our kids learning how, uh, to communicate with one another really well. How do they communicate with the adults in their schools really well and how do the adults communicate with one another really well? Uh, we serve as models for our kids and the manner in which we uh, engage with others matters.
Our kids follow that. they see that on a regular basis. And uh it's important for me as as the superintendent to share this out widely across all of our schools that we need to create opportunities for our kids to to engage in discussion uh outside of their
phones, you know, outside of the academics, but connected to the things that, you know, can just promote a thought-provoking discussion. So, what you see here in this first one, I'm not going to show this video, but you'll have access to this to this deck to to review, but we have over 100 brand new
teachers in district 25. Um, due to class size, law, and you know, many of our schools were able to bring on new staff. And our first entry place into this was doing something as simple as rock, paper, scissors. Um, you know, and you might say, well, Mike, how is that going to promote, you know, relationship
building? But the way that we did it here was um you know each person that that took their turn. They had to find someone new in the audience engage in rock paper scissors and the person that won um you know got to move on to compete against another individual in
the audience while the person that they beat became their cheerleader. Um, and before you know it, by the end of it, we had 50 people on one side, 50 people on the other, just really cheering each other on, uh, you know, to to see who the rock paper scissor champion was.
And, you know, what what it allowed for was, and the the whole point of this, especially for kids, is that sometimes we're not always rooted for. Um, and this created an opportunity to promote that across our schools. And it was a really, really cool activity. Um, we're we're promoting this with our staff so
that we can then promote it with our kids. And I'm going to ask you just for two minutes to indulge me in a very short one. We're not going to do rock paper scissors because it's hard to do that ver virtually. Um but just a simple question. Um you know, what holiday or celebration do you look forward to the
most and why? Um this would be something we would do in partners. I'd break you out into just these little partnerships. Um so that we can have a quick little chat with a neighbor. But just for time sake, if I could ask you just to take a moment to reflect on that. Is there a specific thing that you celebrate or a specific holiday that you celebrate that
means most to you? Um, and why would that be? And if you'd indulge me just to, you know, take a moment to reflect and then come off mute and share that out loud. Um, you know, I'd love to hear it. Um, and then we can kind of move on just so that you get get an idea of what we're asking our schools to do with our
kids. Um, I'll give you a quick example of one that was just recently happened in one of our schools. Uh a teacher asked a group of students, so you know, who do you think has it easier today, adults or children? Um and you know, it was interesting the dynamics of the
conversation and the kids said uh that they have it easier than the adults because they're not the ones that have to go out and make the living to pay the bills, which I thought was a really interesting response coming from them. But if there's um just take a moment if you could reflect and then we'll kind of come back together for a quick little
chat and then I'll move on with my with my deck. But if any of you have a a thought on that quick little connector, please feel free come off mute, raise your hand, put it in the chat. I'd love for at least a couple of you to share out.
I'm sorry, Dr. Mike. I was trying to sign in. I'm not good at this while you were talking, but um what I heard was you wanted to know what's your favorite holiday. >> Yeah. What what's your favorite holiday and why? So >> for me it's well like almost
equivalently equally um Thanksgiving and Christmas but I'll choose Christmas because of the festivities, music, family of course. >> Love that. Thank you, Angela. Anyone else?
>> Hi everyone. My name is Meline. Um I would have to second with um Angela and say Christmas and um Thanksgiving as well. I guess just spending time with the family and just being around them. Um I'm a Thanksgiving baby and my husband is a Christmas baby. He was born
on the 25th. So we kind of try to do it as special and as separated from both the holiday and the birthdays, but we we love it. So we love >> Oh, I love that. That's awesome. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Uh Crystal here. Uh thank you.
>> Um mine Thanksgiving and that's uh for me it's not only for family but because of what we do at Thanksgiving time. My family and I go around and feed people that are less fortunate. Um and it just reminds us
not just that time of year but to be grateful and thankful and you know have gratitude for all things at all times. And that's just one of my favorite times to be here. >> Yeah, I love that. That's awesome, Crystal. Um the idea of being able to
give back is so so cool. Love that. And I saw Rachel put in my uh the wedding anniversary, the start of her family. I really love that also, Rachel. Thank you for sharing that in the chat. And if I had to say for myself, Thanksgiving is also one of the the big ones for me and uh mostly for the things that you guys said around being able to connect and
engage with family. And what I like about Thanksgiving is that it's really about it's not about the presents so much that you know the kids tend to get themselves wrapped up in and they can't wait for Christmas mostly because they can't wait to get something. >> Um and to me I like about what I love about Thanksgiving is that it's not
really about that. It's about you know being able to be in in gratitude and and um in company with uh those that you care most about. So um that for me is is certainly my top one. Um anyone else before we move on? I see a ready to New York New Year's Eve
watching cheesy TV programs with kids while being silly at home hanging out in our PJs and staying up late. Yeah, I love that. Thank you already. That's awesome. Um, so if you got anyone, why why do you think we need to do this? This simple little chat. It takes a couple of minutes, but why is something
like this important? Do you think? >> To get to know each other. >> Yeah, of course. I mean, Crystal, that's awesome. Maline, you I saw you came off you, too. I was going to say just to be engaged with one another and just getting to know one another a little bit
more. As Crystal said, >> if we don't open up opportunities for our kids to do this, they're likely not going to just do that on their own. Um, they'll talk about other things perhaps, but you know, what are they really in relationship to? Um, you know, and I
think about my son. He's in ninth grade. My daughter is 11th grade. And um, they're two very different kids. Matthew, if you let him will stay silent all day. Emily, we'll talk your ear off. Right. It's about making sure that kids can feel comfortable in in um you know, learning that it's okay to have a
conversation with someone that is next to you. You know, Matthew, we grew up with this family. I'll tell you this quick. This is why my my conversations go long, guys. Sorry. Um we we grew up with this family. My kid, my daughter played softball with with one of with a young lady and her sister and Matthew
were always together in in company because they played softball together. only to learn during the year he sat literally right in front of this child all year and did not say one word to her. Not one, nothing, zero. You know,
so it's about how do we create opportunities for our kids just to be able to connect and communicate. And that's really what this is all about. So your kids throughout the year, one of the things that I'm asking all of our schools at minimum to do is one time a week at minimum they can do it more but at minimum one time a week engage in
some kind of connection before content in their classrooms whether they are in elementary school or a middle uh so that we can promote the relationship building that's necessary inside of our schools. Okay, let me move on. Um, couple of other other things and and
expectations that I have for our buildings. You'll see this notion of stronger and strong uh all related to the context of the roots of a tree. And for me, when when I break out that that space of stronger, it really relates to something that's part of my core values and beliefs, and that's that we're using
information um referred to as data to make really strong decisions. Ultimately, that's what I'm asking for all of our schools to do. Do we know our kids? Do we know what our communities need? How do we dig in and come up with really strong action plans to support our next steps? So, this whole this
whole acronym of stronger is really related to that that we identify things based on what we know in our schools. We go through that and identify targeted areas of need, research and support. So all of our buildings whether they are through the SLT or through the school's
leadership teams they're my my expectation is that they're thinking about that through this mindset in our schools just to make sure you're all clear our reading programs for our elementary schools heard Foundations HMH into reading for our middle schools it's
inter literature uh mathematics we have amplify math in grades 6 through 8 uh our elementary schools have not um organized around a common curriculum just yet. Although the vast majority use Envisions, we do have a couple of schools that use other programs including Amplify. Some of the schools
are are uh piloting that program currently for departmental um fifth, fourth and fifth grade classrooms. Uh passport to social studies is our social studies program across grades. Civics for all is the companion piece. We are asking and you'll see in a moment that
all schools engage in civics for all work. And then we have amplify science is our core program for science. Um in terms of assessment, K to2 is for acadians. It's our reading assessment administered three times a year. I ready
reading administered three times a year for our kids in 3 to 8. Some of our schools do both a cadence and I ready for the K to2. Uh but that's not something that all schools do. My expectation is that a cadence is administered across all buildings. uh for mathematics K to8 is I ready three
times a year and then for our kids that are taking the algebra 1 regions we administer the MAP assessment because it's more aligned with the regent exam than um than what I Ready is at this time. Uh so we and we do that three times a year. Now, you're going to see a much heavier
push. And those of you that um maybe listened in on the chancellor's message yesterday, uh she did a state of the schools for uh for the city, but she talked about MTSS. This is something that you're going to see that's been part of our conversation in the district for a long time, but we are really
digging in um this year uh in particular. All of our schools have developed what we call a win period um in their buildings. It should hopefully sound familiar to some of you. If it doesn't, these are things that for you important for you to ask for children that are falling what what I refer to as
outside that sphere of success that they're just not necessarily on level just yet. Um we are we're asking all of our schools to have these periods embedded where kids are receiving some additional support. Programs that we have in the district that we're where our teachers have either been trained or
are being trained in are programs called Sound Sensible. Those are for our kids that are still having a hard time understanding the the sounds, the letter sounds. Um, and they need that additional intervention, particularly in our kindergarten, first and second grade. Spire for those kids that need
really intensive intervention around phonics and how to decode those words. That's what Spire is about. And then phonics for reading is really for our upper elementary school grades in in grades 3 to five who are having a hard time with decoding, fluency, and comprehension. So those three programs
are are those that we're using in our elementary school while our middle school is using programs like rewards um just words and phonics for reading. Um so our buildings are really working hard at making sure that folks are trained and we do this in tiers. Tier three is
the is the most intensive. Groups will be smaller, likely will be provided by an IEP teacher or uh a special educator that has additional opportunities within their program to offer small group. Uh but just so you know that this is something that is an expectation in the
district uh that we're going to really be working hard to get better at as the school year goes on. Um and lastly, just so you know, you'll see the this language quite a bit too from me. this idea of consistency, coherence, and belonging. Those are three words that
we're really pushing on our schools. Um, this will be year three of implementation of the HMH program. Um, our staff understand the program. They know what it's about. Now, it's about us getting really dug in and get consistent, making sure that across all of our classrooms, our kids are
experiencing a high quality um learning experience from one room to the next. And in order for us to do that, I'm charging schools with three things. their knowledge of the standards, knowledge of their children, and knowledge of the resources. All of those things combined will allow us to make
really smart, strong decisions for our kids in the classroom. So, those are things and I like to just make you guys aware so that that you know you have knowledge of what I'm asking of schools so that when it when you hear it in our buildings, you know that there's that familiar connection to what we're we're asking for at the district level.
Uh and lastly, I'm going to go over this very briefly. um celebrating our successes as a district. We did have a productive year. Um we have a lot more room to grow, don't get me wrong. So, I celebrate, but also knowing that we have more to improve. So, we grew by just
under 6% um overall as a district. Um we met our target, which was 5% for all students. We were just under our goal of meeting 10% for our targeted subgroups, which you will see below um on this slide. We were at 9.3% average increase
for our Hispanic learners in the district. Uh our goal was 10%. 8.6% for our black learners in the district. Um our LERs, I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about in just a moment, was at 4.6% and our students with IEPs
was 7% improvement in reading. Um in mathematics, not necessarily the same level of improvement. Uh we did see some growth, about 1.7% improvement in math overall. our targeted subgroups did improve by more so by more than that. Um
but this is not something that we you know we are necessarily overly happy with. We still want to grow consistently um moving forward. Overall, as a district, we're over 64% of our kids are reading currently on or above grade level and just under 69% of our kids are
on or above grade level in mathematics, which are um highs for us here in district 25. Uh we're looking to continue to push upon that as a community. The one group that the two groups rather that are going to be most emphasized this year uh are English
language learners and our students with IEPs. And the reason why is our L's make up around 26 27. Last year it was 28% of our population and our performance is around 14%.
When you when you include all of our L's in the equation, um it winds up putting us in a space that we know that we have to do better. If we can elevate our English language learners, um the overall performance in the district is
going to increase significantly. Now I it's easier said than done you know it's not you know for our kids that are coming in three four in grades three four five six and up you know learning the English language in a year is not an easy thing for any kid to do um it does take by research 3 to 5 years for a
child to become proficient or even an adult to become proficient in the English language we need to work as hard as we can to accelerate that and that's what we're really working to do so for our L's we are implementing a a what we call a standalone L program pilot um for
our schools that have a significantly large number of entering and emerging children so that we can advance their ability to uh to learn the English language hopefully at a faster rate than what we're currently doing. But it is a group that we are really working hard to
uh you know to make bigger strides with over time. Now the next set of slides are all of our goals. I'm not going to necessarily read them to you. Um we are staying steadfast with our approach of HMH. goal is to improve by five five 10%
again we want to continue to elevate uh and lift that bar uh for both our L's all students our our black learners and our Hispanic learners will continue to be our subgroups until we can uh make sure that all of our kids are learning successfully.
Priority two already talked about in terms of those uh those conversation and connection before content moments. We want to increase studentto student relationships uh based on survey results by a minimum of 10%. We have about 40% of kids that right now in our middle schools believe that they their peer
doesn't respect them. Uh that's not a number that I'm okay with. Um so we do want to improve on that. That's why this relationship building component. Uh in math, we're going to be really focused on sensemaking uh and the implementation of Amplify in our middle schools uh with
the goal of improving again 5 to 10% for our targeted groups. Civics for all really really important for me. Um we are a civics for all district. So, our schools participate in things called project soapbox where our kids get to do
some research. Um, engage in um in speeches for their peers um as well as engaging in a take action project. Um we want all of our kids to participate in this so that they can earn one point at the seal uh towards the seal for civic
readiness from the state. Um, we want them to get that leg up here in uh, elementary and middle so that they have the opportunity to earn that point, those extra points by the time they get into high school. We also are working towards a save for college program so
that we improve by 10% the number of families. We're only at around 40% of our families taking advantage of this right now. Um, all of our kids that do activate their account will have $100 added to a savings account for them. So, um, and all all families need to do is
simply activate the account. Um, and we're hoping to have more folks participate in that than currently do. So, we'll have a variety of opportunities throughout the year for families to hear more about it. Um, so we can raise awareness and support. And the last one I want to talk to you about
is chronic absenteeism. Um, right now we have the second highest attendance rate in New York City. Uh, so we do a really, really great job of making sure that our kids come in. Um but we still even with having over 95% attend daily attendance we have about 17 uh was it 14% of our
kids currently are chronically absent. Last year it was around 20. We want to sustain the low levels uh going throughout the year. So that and usually December, January, February are very rough months and we wind up seeing a significant decline. Um we want to try to adjust as much as we possibly can to
keep our kids in school. um reminders around that those healthy behaviors and washing those hands as often as we can. Um we know that flu is the flu and your co is co but we want to make sure that our kids are in school as frequently as we can be because there is a clear
correlation between uh student attendance and their performance. Um it's very very clear when our kids are in school they do well when they're not in school they struggle. Um, so it's another one of those variables that we're really working hard across our schools to support. And the last two
things that I want to mention to you, uh, for all of your community members, IS-237 hosts, um, a an adult education program through district 79. Um, last year we had over 200 par 200 community
members participate in in English language courses. Um in this case we have they're also offering technology courses. It really a great opportunity and um I want as many families as possible to connect with us. Um
for any of your community members you can share the flyer. They can utilize the contact at d25ny.nyc and we can make sure they can get the information they need in order to register. It's an ongoing registration so it doesn't mean that there would be cut off if they missed the initial date that was
provided there. So any families that you know are looking for um learning uh opportunities to learn how to speak English, this is a great opportunity. So I encourage you to share it widely in your schools um so that more and more folks can take advantage of it.
And the last thing that um that I have for you you here are uh parent survey questions that we intend to send out a survey to all families um from the district perspective um around you know the things that are going on that are important to us. You know are we going
to meetings? Are we getting feedback from uh from our schools around my child's progress? Um have you been able to meet with your child parent during uh child's teacher during parent engagement time? Um, and the last two that are that are also important to me, things that
we're doing well that you think of as a parent and things that we can improve as a district. So, I do want to send this out and you don't have to answer right in this moment, but I do ask if you can just spend a little bit of time reflecting on these questions and then giving us feedback around anything else that you think we should ask uh our
parents in the community so that we can learn a little bit more. And the more we learn from you, the better that we're going to be able to get. Um, so we do intend to send this out within the next couple of weeks. Um, it will be certainly translated in uh, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean, our three prominent
languages in the district other than English. Um, so that we can get feedback from our community. Uh, and then we will use this, we'll bring it back to the TAC, we'll bring it to CEC, we'll bring it to DT asking for recommendations based on areas that are being
highlighted as a need. Um, so anything else that you think, you know what, Mike, here's what you should also be thinking about or questions that you should be asking, feel free add some of that feedback in and you know, we'll we'll uh work towards including those questions into the mix. Trying to keep
it limited though, so that parents don't look at this and say, "Oh my god, what else do you need me to do here?" Um, so we want to try to keep it as uh pointed as possible. Oh, I'm sorry. And I have one more final slide. We're also asking um for feedback around our newest
iteration of strong roots, strong schools. You'll notice here at the top, for those of you who know our our previous one, it was from many roots growing as one community based on our collaboration with the CEC, we've changed that to growing in well from many roots growing in wellness,
kindness, and community. Um we're going to be surveying all of our kids in grades 3 to eight around what they believe this means. would love for any of our parents to also indicate what we want to define this as. We've only had a handful of families so far
that have re have responded. The more people that answer, the better our response, better our definitions will be. So, I also encourage you to uh to include some of your notions in here around how how we can define wellness in our community, how can we define kindness, and how can we define
community here in district 25. And each of these statements will help us in our school leadership teams grow through this as a as a district community. Um, but that is my my brief although my brief conversations never seem to be so brief. Uh, but I will end there. And if
if you have any uh questions about what I presented, please feel free to share and I'll be happy to answer them. >> Thank you, Dr. Mike. >> Guys, and I will be back during every meeting um every DPAC meeting. Um, you know, if there are things that are coming up for you that you you feel like
you need to learn more about or want to hear more about, you know, share it with Jenny. Um, and we'll be happy to make sure that um that we connect with you. Okay. >> But than that, everyone have a great night. I'll be listening in on the election process. Good luck to whoever is going to run. Thanks so much, guys.
>> Thank you so much. And at the end of today's meeting, I will make sure we, you know, I'll show you the district website where you can find the meeting documentations, including Dr. Mike's slide. Okay, let me share my screen again. Okay,
so let's continue with our DPAC. Um, so I'm going to talk a little bit about what Title One is. So, Title One is a federal program who provide supplemental financial assistance to schools where the maj majority are lowincome families.
Um the title one funding will be used to help support children receive a fair and equitable highquality education and to close the educational achievement gaps. Um the title one funding is used to support students who are failing or most
at risk of failing inter to provide interventions programs to um provide extended learning time as before and after school sessions for summer programs for PD for teachers, principles and other supporting staff to support
children in um shelters and title one schools are also required to include parents in the decision making process regarding the title Title one educational program school must conduct an annual title one meeting to talk about title one and to introduce their
pack um members. All title one schools must establish a title one pack which is all of you. Um title one pack must hold monthly meetings. Uh monthly meetings is nine monthly meetings and they can begin from
October till June just like the PAPA. Next slide. So what is a title one pack? Title one pack is a group of parents whose children are in the title one program or title one schools. Let me admit it. Um this group gives parent a voice
and help them be involved in the child's education. The chairperson which is the leader for all title one parents works with the school team SLT to help plan, review and improve title one program and parent involvement activities. The chairperson keeps title one parents
informed and shares their opinions and concerns with the school leadership team. The pack makes sure all title one parents are included and working together with the school to support students success.
Here at the district level, we are required to establish a DPAC including a chairperson, alternate and a secretary to serve as a mentors and provide guidance to title one packs. The title
one DPAC is a district level group made of all pack chairperson from school level title one schools. It gives the parent a voice in how title one program works across the whole district. We the DPAC meets monthly also nine
meetings to share updates and hear from title one pack representatives. They collect feedbacks from parents and share important information with schools. They attend monthly city pack meetings and gather updates and turnkey the information to the school community.
They attend DT meetings and help plan and review district-wide title one programs. Um they share title one um information with parents and bring their questions and concerns to the district attentions. They encourage parents participations in
participations in trainings, meetings and event that helps them support their child's learning and the next would be city pack. So what is city pack? CityPAC is core members. Um the city pack core members are title
one DPAC chairs and alternate across our 32 community school districts. CityPAC supports uh DPAC chairs and alternate with information and professional learning needs related to your role as a DPAC and a chair and a pack chair. City
PAC shares best practices that have been effective within school packs and district packs. CityPAC works like a mentor for all the title one packs and DACAs and provide one an extra layer of support. They attends monthly city pack meetings and these meeting takes place
on the fourth Monday of each month and then we're going to go to I'm going to talk a little bit about parent and family engagement policy PFP and school parent compact. So what is that? This is a plan that explains how the school will
involve parents in the child's education. The school parent compact shows the shared responsibilities and what we are expecting from the schools, the parents and the students. It helps everyone understand what what's expected and how to work together to help
students achieve their goals and become successful. Now is the pack election time and I'm going to give the floor to our president's council. Veronica is one of our co-presidents at the C president's council and she will facilitate
tonight's DPAC election. Veronica, the floor is all yours and thank you for doing this. >> No problem. Thank you so much. Well, first and foremost, before we begin, I want to wish everybody good luck. those that are planning to nominate. I will begin by reading the duties and
responsibilities of the DPAC chairperson. The DAC chairperson shall preside at all meetings of the DPAC and serve as an exopicium member of all committees. Delegate responsibilities to other members and encourage meaningful participation in all activities. Serve
as the representative to the district leadership team and attend all district parent meetings. meet with elected board members to prepare agenda items, events, and speakers for monthly meetings. Meet every month from October through June for a total of nine meetings with
officers and memberships to share information and assist with the transfer of records to incoming officers prior to the end of their term. So, at this time, are there anyone from the floor that would like to nominate themselves to run for DPAC chairperson?
>> I would, Crystal Gonzalez. So, we have Crystal who would like to nominate herself. Anyone else? One more time. Is there anyone else who will be interested in running alongside Crystal or with just, you know,
for this position for the PAC chairperson? Okay, I guess the only person interested in running for this position at this time is Crystal Jenny. So, are we ready to hold elections? >> We're going to give Crystal one minute
to introduce herself. >> Yes. >> Hi. Good evening, everyone. Um, my name is Crystal Gonzalez. I am a parent of two children. I have a son, Kevin. He's 12
years old. He attends MS 379. I am the pack chair at MS 379 and a PTS PTA secretary at MS 379. I have a daughter at PS29. I have been on SLT for 6 years at PS29.
I'm the P one of the PTA presidents at PS29. Um also I am um I was uh DPAC alternate for uh two years ago and last year I was
secretary for DPAC um and um very interested in a position. Thank you. >> Thank you so much Crystal. Since there are no other nominees, we are going to go ahead and move for a
vote. Are we all ready for a vote? Thumbs up. Yes. Those in favor of supporting Crystal, say yay. Or raise your thumbs. >> Put a yes in the chat. >> Mhm.
I believe we have everyone. We have a unanimous consent. So, Crystal, congratulations. You have been elected as a DECA chairperson. >> Thank you. >> Looking forward to a successful year. >> Yay. >> Yay, Crystal. Congratulations.
>> Thank you. >> And we look forward to be working closely with you. Let me share my screen for DPAC alternate. >> Thank you so much, Jenny. The duties and responsibilities of a DPAC alternate. The DPAC alternate shall assist the
chairperson with the duties as outlined above and shall assume his or her duties in his or her absence or at the chair's request. Alternate chairperson will move up to chairperson via secession and hold an election to fill the alternate chairperson position. At this time, are
there anyone from the floor who would like to nominate themselves as the alternate chairperson? I got an email and a written note from Jamie. Jamie, unfortunately, had to um you know had to leave the Zoom uh meeting. Um so, but she would like to
nominate herself and she's from PS29. She's the pack chair for PS29. She would like to nominate herself and I got an email from her stating that. >> All right. So Jamie is one of the nominees. >> Yeah, she was here before, but I knew
that she had to leave. So she nominated herself by giving me a written consent. >> All right. Is there anyone else who would like to nominate themselves at this time? >> Going in once. Go in twice. going three times. So, the only person
that we have who has nominated herself who couldn't who cannot be here but has nominated herself via email is Jamie. So, are we okay to move for a vote? Is there anything that she would like to say or we we're okay to move for a vote?
>> Yeah. All right. >> Anyone? >> So, do we have parents say yes? Can uh can we ask for some thumbs up in the chat? >> Yes. >> Since since we don't see a lot of um cameras on. Okay. Oh, they were using
the emoji. Thumbs up emoji. Awesome. Yep. >> Yay. Congratulations to Jamie. >> Congratulations to Jamie. She is now our DPAG chair alternate. >> Jamie, can you put Jamie's full name in the chat and her school for me? >> Yep.
>> I will do it right now. It's Jamie um Wong. and she's from PS 29Q. >> Great. Congratulations to Crystal and Jamie. >> I emailed uh one person. I have to email
to everyone. I'm sorry. Jamie 29. And instead of saying direct message, I'm going to do everyone in the meeting. Okay. And then let me share my screen. Thank you so much, Jenny.
>> Thank you. >> We will now move the last position, the duties and responsibilities of a DPAC secretary. The recording secretary shall prepare meeting notices, agendas, and signing sheets and record the meet the minutes at all meetings. Is there anyone who
would like to nominate themselves at this time for this position? Anyone who would like to nominate themselves for this position? >> I'm waiting for Lewis to to inform what the role entails. Lewis, you are very
good at it. >> This one needs convincing. Okay. So, as the secretary, you will be uh your main responsibility is going to be generating the meeting minutes after every meeting. You saw what those meetings look like. They're not that
complicated. Jenny went over several months of them um in in about 10 minutes, so they're not they're not super complicated. Um however since all DPAC meetings are virtual um they uh are all recorded and with
that video recording which you could of course watch the video recording to take minutes. You don't have to take minutes you know in real time while the meeting is happening live. Um but it also records a transcript file which is basically a text file that has line by line everything that was said and who
said it depending on what their name is on Zoom of course. Um, and what we can do uh very easily is actually take that file, upload it into um one of our AI assistants, whether it be um Copilot or
um uh Google Gemini. Um and uh just ask it to make meeting minutes using the transcript file and you get really nice detailed minutes very quickly. Um, all you have to do is copy and paste it, clean it up a little bit, maybe change the name or two or um, add another
detail that maybe it left out. And, uh, but really the the frame of it is there. It's super easy. So, I don't want anyone to be nervous about um, taking on the role of secretary. It's really super super easy. Uh, and it's a really important uh, part of the DACK. So, we
really want to make sure that we have a functioning DAC uh, in district 25. Is that good, Jenny? >> Yes. And also me and Lewis and Dr. Mike and Deputy Superintendent Ume, we are all here to support. So, anything you
guys need, we will be there to support you. Anyone? Anyone? Sounds like a cool position. Sounds like you will have a lot of support and we definitely would encourage you um to to really do this. I
mean, I speak from being a recording secretary at a PTA. I think it's one of the greatest positions because you're in charge of disseminating information to many, many communities. And that's what we want. You know, make the message as concise as possible so everyone out
there can see and can read and can be informed in a way that is understood by everyone. anyone takers? So I guess this is remains a bacon position and I guess we can move on. Um
are we all in agreement since there are no no one else who would like to nominate themselves at this time? >> Can we nominate you Veronica? >> No I would love to. Can I nominate someone? can or are we
can we still put this position forward um for the rest of the district? I think it it might be a fair opportunity for everyone else. >> Yeah. For any u future DEPAC meetings, we will mention this vacancy and any parents who want to step up at that moment or that time they feel ready,
they can do it. >> Yeah. >> But Jenny, can the DAC still function? >> Yes. Yes. >> Okay. Good. >> The mandated are the pack the DACK chair and alternate. >> Yeah. Oh, I guess I'll be the secretary for
now, which which which I'm okay. Which I'm okay with since we have AI to help me support. >> Um, >> you're doing a great job at it, Jenny. >> Yes, you're doing a fantastic job, Jenny. >> Thank you everyone. Thank you everyone for supporting me. Um, let me share my
screen again and thank you Veronica for facilitating the election. >> No, thank you. and I look forward to working with all of you in different roles and different capacities. I I really appreciate the opportunity to chair this election. Thank you so much.
We do have the entire president's council here with us for support. We have MNA and Rachel also joining us in this meeting. Okay. Um so DPAC bylaws um we've been trying to um make some changes. So DAC
bylaws must be reviewed every year and updated every three years. So it is time to update it. Let me click on it. Everyone have access to the bylaws. I will show you where to find all the meeting documentations including the
bylaw bylaws and including Dr. Mike's slide. Um I have highlighted where we reviewed since March. We wanted to change our quorum of eight to quorum of five members because we often of the
time we do not meet quorum and so this in this you know in that way we couldn't conduct the meeting or approve the minute. So everyone I will show you um the district 25's website d25.nyc
do you guys see it? Once you go to the website, you will go to public meetings. We have the CEC meeting. We have DT meeting. We have president's council meeting and we have recorded meetings
and parent chat. The DPAC is hidden inside DT. There's a arrow side arrow. You click on it and you click on D-pack. This is the site where you join our meeting. The DPAC meeting. There's a Zoom link. Uh meeting schedules. We
haven't uh set up any meetings yet since we were waiting for the election and now we have a chairperson and an alternate. We can all work together to schedule our future meetings and Lewis will make sure the names will be Oh,
Lewis, you are very fast. Good night. >> I I don't do it for you. I do it for me. >> I didn't even realize you have it on it already. Okay. When's the next meeting? I'll put that up there, too. >> I will I will work with um Crystal and
Jamie to come up with the meeting dates and then meeting recordings. >> Okay. >> Meeting documents are right here. When you click on share documents, you can find anything that we've been presenting during our meetings. The minutes, the bylaws, my slide, Dr. My slide. So, you
can find anything right here. Let me go back to my slide. Um I can't find it. Okay, it's right here. So now we we going to ask everyone to review the bylaws. Next month
hopefully we're going to meet quum which is eight so we can make the amendments and approve the changes. We need to change it from 8 to 5. These are our title one schools for 2020. Oh my god. See Jenny, I did not
update it again. I apologize for 2025 and 2026 school year and these are our um BOE vetted or approved um vendors that we have been working with. So if we have any title one parents who are looking for ideas on
how to spend that 1% set aside um these are some of the ideas we will invite them in. In the past we have been inviting uh elevate we have been inviting um child mind institute and we also invited uh turbo to come in this
way you can meet the presenters know more about the programs or anything they provide and consider bring that back to your pack meetings and have that up to a vote to see if everyone agrees on how to spend that 1% title one front
these are the monthly DACA flyers that I sent out to our parent coordinators then then go ahead and remind you about our DPACK meetings. Um once I have the uh once all schools um complete the IP plan portal is where I go in and find
everyone's names and contact information. I will also send out an email on you know myself to remind you about the future DACK meetings. That's it from me. Does anyone have any questions? Let me stop sharing.
>> Jenny, >> yes. >> Not a question, but a com. Well, just letting you know Jamie and I are available on Thursday or Friday. Um, >> Thursday. There's no school. Can we meet Friday? >> Friday. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. What time do you want to meet? >> Um, in the morning sometime. >> Friday, October. We are October. >> October 3rd. >> 3rd. Yep. >> I'm flexible. Anytime that you want. So,
want to do 9:00? >> Sure. We can do 9. >> Or I'm flexible. If you want to do a little bit earlier or a little bit after, I'm flexible. >> Okay. Okay. Let me ask her. >> I'm I'm fine, but let me ask her.
>> Yes. just let me know and I'm you know I can you I can create the meeting link and I'll send it to both of you so we can have a virtual meeting. >> 9:30 >> 9:30. Awesome. So efficient. We already came up with a meeting so we can schedule our future meeting dates.
I will create a meeting link via Microsoft Teams and I'll send it to you and Jamie. >> Okay. No problem. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Um I know that I had asked you on the in the chat about like um like the details
of the title one and stuff like that. Would I be able to find that in this in the website or would >> Yes. Yes. I have already uploaded it to the website. So again you go to d25.nyc you go to public meetings and you click on DT but there's an arrow next to DT
that gives you access to DPAC and the meeting documentations. If you for some reason cannot find it or cannot open it, you can email me and call me. Okay, I will put my contact information in the chat. >> Thank you. >> J chain2
school at schools. >> Um that's and then you can also call me at 3478503048. So you can treat reach me both ways either email or phone and I'll make sure I'll >> you know I'll email it to you separately
or I'll show you how on how to access that slide. Okay. >> Thank you. >> No problem. And if it's PDF file but if you want a Google um document the slide so you can make some changes let me know. I'll
share that with you so you can adjust it to, you know, to fit your own school. >> Yeah, because we have a a meeting to talk about this. So, >> no worries. I'll share my site with you. >> Thank you. >> If you Sorry,
>> Maline, you can also email me tomorrow. Once you email me, I'll send you the um the my slide so you can make adjustments. >> Okay, perfect. And then um by when do we need to let um I guess the district know when we're going to use the funds the 1%
like by when >> um there is a timeline um I will send the I will share the timelines with you as well. There's a timeline on how to you know like when to have meetings when to have the uh title one has a whole timeline when to have the you know
annual meetings when to have the complete IP plan portal when to have meet you know those nine and then you have to plan your nine month meetings each month you will have to have a DPAC meeting not DPAC meeting a pack meeting I'm sorry schoolwide school district
school level is pack meetings we do recommend all title one pack to have their meetings with the PAPA on the same day, but make sure the flyer shows it's two separate meetings because this way you only have the audience to attend the
meeting once. You might not get, you know, um audience to return back to another meeting. It might be too much in one week or one month. So, if you have it with your PAPA, make sure the flyers indicate it's two separate meetings. Once the PAP meeting ends, the DPAC um
the pack meetings begins. Okay. >> You're welcome, Angela. >> There was something else that you mentioned, but then um we got cut off at the meeting part. Um >> Okay. But if you um if you think of it
overnight, just email me tomorrow. I'll I'm here tomorrow. I'm just off Thursday, but I'm here tomorrow on Friday. Wait, tomorrow's Wednesday, right? I guess. >> Awesome. Um, no, I think that's it. So, it has to be Oh. Um, how many people has
to join the pack meeting in order to qualify for um like the >> So, so depending on your bylaws, it's minimum eight. a minimum five. But if your bylaw says eight, you you have to make sure you have eight parents even
enable to change the bylaws. That's why I want to um I I want to make sure our bylaws get updated to to five since in the past it's always hard to we don't have a lot of um
we don't have high participations of title one school. So it's it's been very hard to conduct business or even approve minutes as you saw that I have to um table minutes from March to September for approval. So I I would like to keep
it five but if you think another number is better bring it up to your school review it with your with your um school community and have them vote. >> Okay. Okay. So, like if they like for example like we have our upcoming meeting, if we say, "Oh, we want we want
to minimize it to five as opposed to the eight." If they all vote on it, um I reach out to you and let you know. >> Make no make sure you need two meetings to amend a bylaws. The first meeting is always to review and discuss it. The
second meeting is to to um vote on it. So, you will need at least two meetings. Jenny, is that for each of us? >> Everyone has >> Meline you're speaking too. >> Yeah, every um No, every school, every title, one school has their own bylaws.
Uh look at your bylaw and see what the quorum is. Your might be another different number. Ours is eight. We're going to change it to five. Your might be a different number. >> And so I should relay this to the pack chair chair. >> Yes. Bring it up for discussion and to
review it. And then the second meeting would be to vote on it. >> Got it. >> So it be like our November meet the November meeting will be for to vote. >> Yes. >> Within PAC, not within DPAC. >> PAC. It's pack. It's yours. Yeah. Each
school has their own bylaws. We have our own DPACK bylaws. >> So in the on the website, will we be able to see our um bylaws based on our school or >> No. No. I don't I don't have access to your bylaw. Uh, your school should have a copy of the bylaw.
>> Yeah. >> All your previous um chair should have a copy of the >> bylaw with the highest degrees. >> If Maline, if you for some reasons do not have access to any bylaws and no one
ever had the bylaw or seen the bylaw, it's okay to create one from scratch. there's a template and where you can create it but still you will get approval from your um your your school community. >> Okay.
>> Mhm. But that's only if the bylaw never existed or was never created. They should be they should be somewhere. Mhm. >> But for a brand new school who who recently became title one school, they
might not have a you know old old um bylaw. So they will have to come create one from the scratch, but there's a template for that. >> And and where can we find that template? I'm sorry. >> I'll send I'll send that to you as well. >> Thank you.
Sorry, I just want to ask this question. This is my first time in a meeting in this meeting. So I'm not sure exactly but >> do not worry that that's why that's why we are here. >> I'm also learning. So I'm also learning alongside with you ladies and whatever
information I get, I'll turn key to you ladies so you guys can have a successful meeting at your school. >> Thank you. >> And now I have um Crystal and Jamie working with me. So it will be, you know, it will be more information we can
share. It'll be we can alternate. We'll be working closely together to make sure our pack gets the support they need. >> Yes, >> Crystal. I'm very excited. >> Me, too. I'm looking forward to it.
Um, we I'm going to pause recording. I'm going to stop the recording.