And I'm gonna start sharing my slide. Do you see my slide everyone? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> I'm not seeing your slide. Hold on. >> Okay, >> got it. >> All right. So, good evening everyone.
Thank you so much for joining our DPACK meeting for for May for April. Tonight's uh agenda, we are welcoming, you know, all our parent leaders, me and Jessica. Jessica's our new family support coordinator, and we're going to approve
our minutes from the March meeting. After that, we're going to go ahead and um have the superintendences report. And after the superintendent report, we have uh Ming Shu. She's a nutrition educator from Cornell University. And then uh
Jessica and I going to go over some city pack updates and some upcoming meetings and open the floor for any questions that you may have. Quest I give the floor to you. >> Thank you. And the meeting norms, we start and end on time. One voice when
speaking. This is a safe space to speak. One, two, three, and then me. If you spoke already, allow three people to speak before you speak again. Respect all, be present, be engaged, and involved. Next slide, please. >> Yes, I just made a gladiator. So, we are
six parents. >> Okay. Approval of DPAC minutes. And we're going to review the April minutes. >> I'm going to make it larger. Uh, yeah, I was going to say, can you make that a little bigger, please? Yeah. Wait.
What is it? What about now? >> Good. Okay. So, District 25 Panner Advisory Council meeting minutes March 31st, 2026. Location virtual Zoom. Facilitator Jenny Chang. One, call to order and uh
call to order and welcome. Two, attendance and quorum. Three, agenda overview. Four, meeting norms. Five, presentation Google forms presenter Lewis Lotito. Six, approval of
February meeting minutes. Seven, we had the superintendence report. Presenter, Dr. Mike Dantona, opening remarks. Uh B, staff announcements. C district highlights and celebration,
debate leagues, civics week, NASA Queens Library event, spelling be achievements, district recognition, D, family and community engagement, district math and family nights at junior high school 189, cheer expo,
towns and Harris High School. Uh we had the chancellor's visit and e summarizing updates. F upcoming events and opportunities. SEAL workshops, math workshops, April 29th session and fra on fractions
wellness day eight AI guidance and family feedback nine resources and MTSS multi-tered system of support 10 goal updates social emotional learning
uh mathematics 11 survey Finder 12. Portrait of a graduate. 13. Dpack updates. General updates. DAC roles. 14. Title one and I plan portal
updates. 15. New York New York City school survey. 16. Title one funding and vendor support. 17. Upcoming meetings. 18. Open discussions. and 19 was adjourned. Can I get a motion to approve minutes?
>> Approved. >> Can I get a second motion? >> Approved. >> Meeting minutes approved for April. >> Thank you so much. And we're going to give the floor to Dr. Mike. >> Dr. Mike.
>> Sure. Absolutely. Hi everyone. >> Good evening. >> Great to be here in company with you guys. >> Um going to go through a brief report and um there'll be an ask of you guys towards the end which I mentioned during our previous uh previous meeting and I'm
hoping that you'll take just a couple of minutes to add to um some feedback as we start defining out what next year will be. Um, so I'm hoping that you guys can give us a little bit of feedback and just take a few moments of your of your time towards the end um through a Padlet
that I'm going to put into the chat um towards the latter part of my uh of my presentation with you guys today. So like always, we we begin with a connection before content. We won't do a breakout room for this. We'll just pose
it in the chat and then hopefully you guys will have something to communicate with me. So um our conversation card for for this session is what job would you like to try for a day? Is there one that you say you know what I would love to
try that for a day? What would that one be? So just give a moment. What other than obviously what you're doing, but what job would you would you want to try for a day? I do have one and I'll but I'll let everyone else kind of take a moment
to be in that space of reflection. Oh, I love that crystal. So, feel free to enter into the chat. Oh, I love that, Angela. So for me, I am a very big sports guy. So I would love to anchor ESPN uh during a sports center. I would I
would be really really uh interested to see one how I would be able to manage myself on it. But um the idea of being able to talk about sports with uh with professional athletes and and anchors like that, that to me would be something I would get a real kick out of. Oh, Cindy will be a news reporter, youth
guidance. Anyone want to quickly hop off from mute just to quickly share why I don't mind sharing. I feel like >> Hello. I feel like nowadays because of uh all the digital and the stuff we have, a lot of the young kids don't have
the same learnings that we I used to get when I Oh, okay. I'm kind of old. So, when I was growing up, I feel like a lot of information is lost. And even though they have social media, maybe even AI to look up answers, they wouldn't know to look up. If you don't know what to ask,
you wouldn't know to look it up to begin with. >> And so, I feel like, you know, a lot of this stuff we should probably bring back to teach them, even like home economics kind of things, you know. So, but yeah, that's that's my opinion. >> Yeah, I love that, Alice. Thanks so much
for sharing. And um you know I think you know we can't lose sight of and I agree with you we can't lose sight of some of the the the basic needs that we have inside of inside of life. You know tech can do a lot of things and does help us in lots of ways. Um but you know there
are opportunities that I think do exist uh where some of those basic skills are very very necessary. I mean, my son comes home, he's able to to make himself his mac and cheese now because he learned how to do that in one of his classes, you know, at the high school level. So, I do think there's a great
deal of value in um in doing that kind of that kind of thing. Um so, um yeah, I agree with you. Anyone else before we move on? >> I'll share. >> Yeah. Hi, Crystal. >> Okay. So, um a pilot. I I was just thinking of traveling. I love traveling.
That's first and foremost. and like just the thrill of you know just the thrill of uh being a pilot and flying a plane and also they get to travel to different countries in a short amount of time like many different countries at times in one day. So like that that that whole thing is just a thrill and excitement for me
like just the thought. >> Yeah, I love that. I love that. I don't know that I can do it but I appreciate that there are people that want to. That's for sure. Um love that. Uh anyone else? I think same with me, um, just being a news reporter to travel and have
an opportunity to just go places where you don't, I guess, won't normally think of going. So, see, >> yeah, I love that, Cindy. Thank you. And Angela, go ahead. >> I was going to say there's a lot of um
mental health issues and I'd like to be a part of the solution. >> Yeah, that's terrific. >> Well, thank you. Yeah, go ahead, Crystal. >> Not me. Angela. >> Oh, I thought I Oh, Lulu. Go ahead,
Lulu. Go ahead. >> Was there someone else? I'm sorry. I thought I saw someone come off a mute. I'm not sure who that was, but feel free to come off at any time. Uh, if you like. Um, >> law enforcement because I was in the military before, so
I think law enforcement might be perfect for me. I love that. I love that. Well, thank you guys for sharing. I appreciate you just taking a couple moments to indulge and and why we do these things is to make sure that we can connect with
others in different ways and learn a little bit about who they are outside of what you get to to know them as and you know just being a parent on DPAC versus a parent on DPAC that would love to be a pilot one day or would love to have that as an aspiration just to do once. uh we
start learning a little bit about each other and um and get a sense of of deeper appreciation for for who we are and what we're about. So the more that we can do this, the better. I encourage you guys even in your own meetings that you have back at the school or when you're if you're part of your SLT, bring
these conversations forward and make sure that we're having them on a regular basis. Okay. So let me share my my presentation with you guys tonight. Uh that was our connection before content. Just a couple of celebrations.
I'm really really excited about uh about this. This is the the first year that we've engaged in um in a in a district-wide approach to the first in math competition. It's something that's run at the state level. Uh and we had award winners at every g every grade
level. Uh, so a big shout out to all of our schools from 163, PS20, PS32, PS79, 165, 219, 237, 499 uh for being regional winners. Uh, each of our schools is planning right now to
to uh go to Albany for the state competition uh which we're really excited for them uh and wish them well as they go on their journey and we're we're hoping to take home some state championships as a result. We also had our middle school game 24
competition um at PSMS499. Really big shout out to Principal Mahajan and um our math team members from the district um Beth Eaton um and Liz Jones for the work that they're doing to to really promote math across
our district community and making it a space where um where math is enjoyable and that's and building our math mindsets for our kids because the the more we have positive math con uh positive mouth math self-concepts uh the
better off our experiences will be in our classrooms and beyond. Um, so more to follow on this. It's this is year one of middle school game 24 and we did it for our elementary schoolers as well and it was a really big success. So big
shout out to um our kids and our coaches for doing this work. Really super excited about this as well. Diana Stein from our team um has really been growing out our athletics program here in district 25 and it just gets
better and better every single year. Um so just recently we held our first um flag football um uh we organized our first uh flag football teams across eight of our schools. Uh so proud of the
options that we're making available and um you know just a great experience for our kids. is what I understand is that they went back to their schools super excited about uh the opportunity that they had to do this. And you know, for me, um as I said, I I think athletics is
a really great teacher. So, we're trying to build out as many opportunities for our kids as possible for them to experience a range of athletic opportunities. So, this is just one more added to the list and I'm looking to continue to grow that over time.
Uh we did have an Ezra Jakets award winner uh Lasi Grace from uh 194 uh and her book Stray. So big shout out to her and Julie Santiniello uh who supervised the development of this book. So big shout out to them at 194 for this
accomplishment. Summarizing as you know um the window application window has come and gone and offers uh have been shared with families. Uh we do ask that our families that are um that receive the offers do
accept or decline one way or the other to make sure that um you know that those seats go to families that may be on the waiting list. So if you are not intending to accept those offers, we do ask that you decline it. Um again, if you're only if you're not intending to
uh to take that seat so that it's more accessible to other families. Um so you know um again just ple please be mindful of that. Encourage those that have gotten seats to accept if that's what they intend to do. Uh we have some
upcoming events. Um one is actually being held tonight. That is our virtual math uh parent session. This is our last in our series be focused on fractions, proportions and ratios that begins at 7:00. And we will also be hosting um
tomorrow uh tomorrow night um helping your child develop friendships um all part of uh social emotional learning but through through the lens of supporting our parents inside of this process. Uh this will be supported by child mind institute. Uh big shout out to wing from
our team who supports who has supported uh the organization of uh this seal parent workshop series that we've organized this year for you. Um we've been fortunate. We've had upwards of 80 to 100 parents at each one of our sessions. Uh and we're hoping that we
get a good turnout again and invite you um to RSVP and join the join the session. Uh these are always very informative and we're getting support and resources from you know those that are in the clinical field. So I encourage our families to participate
this Saturday. This is a bill really action-packed week. Uh we have a session tomorrow uh tonight. We have one tomorrow and then we have our wellness day uh event which will be held on uh May 2nd. Uh we have a huge range of
folks that will be there to support the event um in terms of supporting mindfulness wellness-based activities. Some of our local um professional organizations will be there um to support the event. Um there'll be
giveaways and raffles and so I do encourage you if you haven't registered. It's a great nice opportunity to bring your kids please register. Uh we have over 470 um registrant uh registrants already. Uh it'll be a nice nice day from 10 to
12:30 um at Common Point Queens and Bay Terrace uh alongside uh 169 and Bell Academy. doors will be open as well uh as school food and nutrition will be there also sharing some of the the types of breakfast uh types of meals that are
available to keep uh our kids healthy. So please join that if you can. New York State assessments as you know ELA testing window is come and gone. Uh math testing window started uh started uh this week. Uh some of you may have received uh information from your
schools. There were some technical difficulties today in some schools, not in all uh for those that uh did have a bit of an issue. Um there is a long testing window available. So, our kids will be able to to uh to test um
accordingly moving forward, but some schools did have tech issues and it wasn't a school issue as much as it was a state issue. Uh so, just so that you're aware that you may have received some guidance from your building. If you did, it's because that specific school had an issue. It was not something that
happened at every one of our schools. Uh science testing window is May 12th through the 15th, just for awareness for grades 5 and 8. And nislled testing is occurring um has been ongoing from April through May for listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Um April was uh ArabAmerican Heritage Month. Uh so big shout out and celebration for all of our ArabAmericans um that have supported um our countries past and present. Um so shout out to our Arab-American families.
We did have a district hiring fair just so that you guys are in the loop on Wednesday, April 22nd. We're always seeking to make sure that we get uh the best of the best to join our workforce here in district. So, schools from across our district community um that
have uh potential hiring needs were present. We had 16 of our schools that were present uh for this event along with 270 plus candidates that joined the um join the event. Um, you know, and you know, for me it's a it's a really
important thing to to start early so that if in if we do need folks to join our schools that we're getting, um, a head start on the rest of the city safer college program. Um, as a district, um, you know, we've set a goal
at the start of the year, but New York City has also established one. As I mentioned to you during our last session, um we do have a push that I'm going to share with you in the spirit of Star Wars uh and May the 4th coming up. We're kicking off and this initiative um
on May the 4th and going to have uh somewhat of a little bit of a contest for all of our schools, particularly our elementary schools K through 4 um to to really push those that activate their accounts. Again, this is always a
family's choice and you know, um the decision will always be yours, but we do encourage um our families to do so. And I'm going to share this little quick video. Um hopefully that you hopefully you enjoy it. It was fun for fun for us nonetheless. I'm hoping it's fun for you
as you view. So, I'm going to share this with you right now. Except for the fact that I have my big mug that starts the uh the video off. >> Dr. M, we don't hear the sound. >> Oh, you can't hear it. Okay, hold on. Let me stop share and reshare. Hold on
one second. Sorry, guys. the fourth on the horizon. >> Can you hear it now, Jenny? >> And our love for Star Wars, Roku and I have a message for all of our families and our kindergarten through fourth graders around the safer college program. Heat up here.
Heat. Heat. Greetings families and grou. How are you today? >> I'm joining you today from Lynen Place as we launch district 25 of future fund awakens. >> This is madness.
As a parent of a 9th and 11th grade learner, I know too well of the importance of planning forward to support the success of my children. Creating a clear path for their success comes with the thinking about the financial needs to support college and career.
>> I am a Jedi like my father before me. The save for college program is a great opportunity to start the saving process as students with the college saving account are three times more likely to attend college and four times more likely to graduate. >> Do
or do not. There is no try. >> Like the force in Star Wars, we can help build the roots of success for our learners by activating your account. Join today and awaken the opportunities for your child's college and career pathway. The force will be with you
always. >> Thank you everyone and we'll see you in space. >> Obi-Wan has taught you well. >> See you, Grou. Bye, District Community.
Let's get those accounts activated. So, um I'm over you see we're trying to get get a little bit of excitement around this. It it is a little bit difficult um for you know for some of our families to activate. They do have questions. We held a virtual session on
Tuesday um just yesterday in fact uh in the morning and then in the afternoon we had roughly around 70 folks combined between both of those events. uh they were recorded um and you know sometimes for me it's parents just have don't have
the awareness or um have uncertainty about certain things. Um and which is why those those virtual sessions were important. Um my my hope is that we get as many folks as as possible because the part that that strikes me about this is
that kids are three times more likely to go to go to college or pro or pursue uh a vocational type of career when they have an account that's begun for them. So the the more kids that we can get involved to start thinking about the fact that there is more beyond high
school, more beyond elementary, more beyond middle, uh the greater um you know opportunities we will have for them. Um so I was waiting for Dr. Mike to appear with you already. Maybe maybe we'll have to add that to it. Maybe I'll come in with
my Jedi costume. Um uh but the goal hopefully is that we're able to get more families access to to this um to this account and we begin thinking about college and career at an earlier earlier age. Uh this I shared with you last session. I just want to
bring it up again. Um the navigating the future of AI in our schools. The window for providing feedback is May 8th through May 8th. Um they do have uh the family facing AI guidance which is present on the uh New York City school
site which I will open now. Uh the starting point it talks about what artificial intelligent is versus what it is not. Uh it talks about the importance of making sure that we keep in mind that um AI is not intended to
replace us as adults and we have to be really critical consumers of the things that we're using. uh and we don't just take them for face value just because we enter it into the computer. It's not for us just to accept that the computer um provided us with information and that
information is always true. So um we are seeking some of that feedback from you. They do have what they call a red, yellow, and green light system uh which talks about the ways that we are not intending to use AI um and ways
that it's okay for us to you use AI and ways for us to be cautious about. So I do encourage you parents and uh you know members of your community to share the the opport to share the link that's at the very bottom of this screen which I
will share with you as well in the chat and this is a uh survey form for you to be able to add your feedback to New York City public schools and they
are accumulating this information to really make a robust guidance document um for our community. So, please do uh if you haven't already, share some of that feedback. And the last couple of things that I want to talk to you about is um aligned
with our goals for next year. Some of the things that we know are really important and what we've seen in terms of our data output is that we're continuing to improve in foundational skills, our kids' ability to decode, our
kids ability to make sense of the sounds that they're hearing. Um, but we now have to start really balancing that between that space of reading to learn and learning uh the learning to read and reading to learn. Uh, where we're really pushing this space of meaning making
inside of our classrooms. uh that our kids are really thinking about what is the text really telling me? How did I learn more about this theme and this unit? Um where we're looking to build upon that so that we're continuing to close those opportunity gaps that exist.
And lastly, really strengthening our standalone program. This year we did pilot um a program referred to as English 3D. Um based on that pilot, we are not going to continue with it. Um as the you know
with all pilots we see things that we like and maybe not like and there were enough things that we did not care for inside of this implementation. Uh that's allowing us that we've learned from the city and the use of a program called reach. It's from National Geographic.
It's very content specific and content um focused uh in addition to foundational which is why we are selecting to choose a different path. Um so more to follow on this particularly for our multilingual learner families of children that are entering and emerging.
Um I do think it will benefit benefit us a great deal and we're going to have the same pathway and throughine in mathematics this focus on making meaning of math concepts through math routines and problem solving based activities.
Um, as you know, we have implemented the Amplify Mathematics curriculum in grades six through eight. And we've been piloting it in our elementary schools across nine elementary schools with the purpose of rolling this out across all of our elementary schools next school
year. So, our teachers will be receiving training uh in the coming months so that we're ready to go for September. Now, the thing about mathematics, the concepts do not change. Um the only thing that's really going to be different is making sure that all of
our teachers are working through a common framework, a common set of approaches uh to teach math for our kids across grades kindergarten through the 8th grade. And lastly, this is what I mentioned to you that I would love for you guys to
provide some feedback and I'm going to put this into the chat right now. And I'm really grateful. I have asked all of our school leadership teams um to begin adding some of their perspectives in here as well uh around these areas.
What does it mean to be safe in district 25 from your perspective as a parent? What does it mean to be academically rigorous from your perspective? What does it mean to be integrated in our schools? How would you define making meaning
in both reading and math? So, if I can ask you just to take a couple of minutes, just to reflect and add some of your thoughts into this Padlet, I would really appreciate it. Um, so that we can begin organizing a common definition of
our beliefs and already I appreciate that. Yes, I saw that your SLT did. If you're willing to come off mute and share some of your thoughts on that, that would be awesome. I would love that. uh or you're free to add things into the chat and I will put it into the document into the Padlet for everyone.
Uh but already would you mind sharing some of the things that came up at your meeting? >> Uh yes. Just give me one moment so I can get settled quiet spot here. >> Sure. Sure. >> Um >> All right. So there was um in terms of
safety the which is I think is the first column in the in the Padlet. >> Yeah. Um the discussion was at two kind of levels. One is physical safety like in terms of security in the physical building. Um and then the second part
was more like emotional safety like how uh comfortable students and families feel about expressing their views at the school, communication with the school and and things like that. So in terms of do you would you like me to go to more detail about >> Oh yeah, if you're willing sure that would be awesome. So in terms of the
physical safety, there was sort of common agreements that uh from the from the parent members and from the faculty members that there is a system in place uh at the school where
um people are trained, there are guidelines in place, people know the guidelines. So god forbid something happens, uh people know what to do and how to to react. Um I think the biggest concern was the quality of the safety
officers at the entrance of the building. So what many of us have observed is that we have one safety officer who is our regular um officer who is fantastic. I mean there is no doubt that she
>> does the job. I mean they're also I mean she's so good that jokes come around about how good she is. Um but when when she's not there there are problems and and uh many people don't feel safety
like and I my understanding is that there's a shortage of safety officers but you know we have witnessed you know officers falling asleep on their chair watching shows on their phones or not paying attention who walks into the
building not signing in and things like that. So that is unfortunately um the situation and it's it's been going on for a long time and I I hope this gets addressed. That's why I'm also bringing it up here. I mean
we were uh the principal explained that the way to do this is to report it to the school and then the school administration forwards it. Um >> yeah, I love that already. I think it's a really important part uh point and you know aside from others having to report
I think the proactive view of that is making sure that we go over clear protocols if someone happens to be absent even though they're not necessarily under um our direct supervision as you know as a different
kind of entity in our school but we can establish clear protocols that if you are new to the desk here's how we are doing things um so that there is a raised awareness. I think that's an important part that we can that we can construct at a school-to-school level is
unfortunately there will be days that someone has to be absent. Uh but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be any less connected to uh the safety of our building because of it. So I love that. That's great feedback. >> Yeah. Uh and in terms of um emotional support and safety um you know
discussion about how comfortable parents feel in terms of expressing their views or approaching the administration with issues. So that aspect of of safety um then there was a column something about uh rigorous learning. I forget the title. >> So
>> academically rigorous. Yep. >> Yeah. So there the the issues that came up was it it kind of started with me it is important for students to be met where they are and push everyone at a
higher level. So if you have students in need where they're below grade level push them to grade level. If you have students at grade level push them above grade level. If you have students above grade level, challenge them so they can
feel challenged and they can do even better. >> Love that. You You did a really great job. I'm actually looking at PS21's entry right now and you pretty much hit you pretty much hit all of your all of the components that you >> need. Right. >> No, I appreciate that. And I and I think
for me what the reason why I'm asking all SLTs to do this just so that everyone knows is so that everyone's invested in the conversation. I can tell you the things that I think. But my perspective doesn't tell the story of every school community and you know I
want to have everyone take a stake in this conversation. Um, and even so far as even our our PA, PTA meetings, any meetings that you guys have through the lens of uh, you know, as the the the pack uh, chair for your school, it's how do we start having these really
important conversations or what we want for our kids. Um, and you know, the more collaborative we get, the more we're talking the same language at every school, no matter what school you're in, we're sharing similar perspectives. And when you guys look at this Padlet, you'll see that there are a lot of
similarities around what folks want. >> Um, and that's a really great thing, you know, and it's how do we bucket that and make sure that everyone sees this is what we believe, not what Mike believes, what we believe as a collective community. And I'm I'm excited about the fact that that folks have been taking
this seriously and starting to enter in their thoughts. Uh, so we have a common common space of of understanding. >> Yeah. If I may add one more point in terms of the practicality like how do we get this done? >> Um we were discussing how
>> uh it should be done at the level of the classroom of the teachers to challenge students and and meet students where they are. Uh not so much at the school or the district level. I think we we we thought that it would be more effective
uh if it was done at the classroom level. uh not to throw the teachers under the bus but support teachers as much as possible to make that happen and perhaps with the with the cap on the class on the class size that may be a
little more achievable. I mean if we're talking about classrooms that have 30 plus students I mean we we can't ask student uh teachers to do to do that but you know down the line um we we thought that student I mean uh teachers should be supported um to achieve that goal.
>> Yeah. And I think that the expectations that we set from from the collective which would serve as the district level to the school level to the classroom level to the individual student level is really how all of that kind of can be organized. Um, you know, I think it's
when we don't have a set of clear expectations for everyone that things can become a little bit different from space to space. So, um, I agree with you. All of this winds up happening in in the classroom. And I think it's up to us to kind of lay the foundational work at the top so that everyone can kind of
get a clear picture of what it means in in each room for each kid. So, I love that. Thank you for sharing already. Uh, is there anyone else that has any any comments on this? >> Um, we did it with Excuse me. Um, we did it in RC, but I see that it's not the
same one I I did. >> Yeah. No, it's the same question. >> I mean, it's the same question, but I don't see my comments there. That's why >> Yeah, I I see yours right here. I see uh uh yours is is um right here. I'm looking at academically rigorous, being able to think deeply and critically about coursework objectives, goals, and
outcomes, and to be able to explain thoroughly with evidence. uh for example doing Ames and or learning targets followed by the do now then ramp up to the next level uh was uh was Angela's entry point for this inside of academically rigorous and I think
>> and did yeah that idea of explaining um explaining thoroughly with EV I'm just picking the one that I just was able to scroll into um is really important too it's like you know where you know and I think we look at you know society
sometimes you know, we're able to to speak sometimes without actual evidence to to support claims. And we have to be able to teach kids that, you know, the importance of being able to do that, not just to say something, but to ground it in something that is is clear from
evidence that we have. Um, so I love that. And I encourage you guys, and you know, I know putting you on the spot to to answer in this this way uh is not necessarily comfortable. Sometimes things don't always come to us right away, but I encourage you to do that. And if you wouldn't mind at the end,
just sign off DPAC representative. You don't even have to put your name. There's nothing that here that's here that says uh you have to sign off as your as the individual person. You can put your name, your your DPAC and DACA rep and that's it. Or I mean pack and that's it. And that's totally fine. But
the more entries that we get from this would be fantastic. Uh and I encourage you to do so. Uh but other than that, next month what I do plan to do is bring you our social emotional learning goal forward as well as our um um goal around college and career readiness. I will
have that ready for you as well to look at and then give me feedback on too. But thank you guys. I'm going to um close with that unless anyone has any questions for me. Okay, guys. I appreciate you. Um, I will be on if the if you do need anything.
Um, but other than that, have a have a great night and thanks for the time that I that you gave me. >> Thank you, Dr. Mike, for being here. >> Thanks, Dr. Mike. >> And I'm going to give it back to Crystal. Bristol.
Oh, we do not hear you. Um, we see that you're not muted, but we still don't hear hear you. Okay. So, I'm gonna uh present our next next guest speaker, which is Ming Su from um Cornell University. Mu is a nutrition
educator and Mingu is here to teach us something new on how to eat healthier. Mu. >> Hello everyone. Good evening. Uh my name is Mingu. So, I'm for Cornell University Extension. Uh I'm not sure if anyone here knows the program. So the program
is offered uh to parents and students. Uh it's completely free. Uh it's a series of uh workshop. Um I have a quick PowerPoint. Um let me see if I can can I share my screen please? Hold on. I'm going to make you a
co-host. I was looking for the three dots. It kind of disappear on my end. >> Maybe I do this. Oh, yep. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. So, uh the workshop that we offer
number one is completely free and second is very active workshop. So, the workshop is talking about how to uh build a healthy recipe, a quick easy recipe and then teach parents how to save money and then also involve a little active. for example, encourage
people to do more physical activities and then we also teach parents and youth how to read nutrition facts label, how to eat pretty much like a balanced meal and uh because uh we are living in a diversity um you know state or city so
we offer a lot of different languages depends on the needs. So we have um the workshop in English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Bengali, udu and curl curr. Okay. Uh and the workshop uh depends on
uh what the participant need. Uh the workshop could be done in person or through zoom. But usually uh in person will be more active because um we can do more recipe like together versus online you just see videos. So uh I think in
person will be more active. So the workshop time uh the for adults is about 6 to 8 weeks and for the youth is 6 weeks and for the time for the workshop is about 1 hour and a half to two hour
for adults but for the youth is like 45 minute to 1 hour between that slot. And um so the workshop uh our target audience is definitely the parents and caregiver because we believe that if we
teach the person who is cooking or who provide the food for the family that way you actually make even more difference. Okay. Because you're the one who cooking. Uh so here are just some quick pictures that we have through our workshop. So it's very hands-on and also
very active. Okay. And uh participant who um complete the program will also receive a certificates and here's some question. Okay. So um so over the past few year
because of co so we actually do offer a lot of zoom nutrition workshops. So here's some um um feedback that we have from the participants. So uh most likely participant will say oh we learn a lot about food safety how to defrost their
meat safely and also physical activity and also a lot of people will say they improve on overall dieting for example know what to eat how much eat throughout the day. So that's just some example to share. Okay. So what question do you have about
the program? So if you want the workshop in your school uh you can just email me and then uh we can um arrange a time and date to best fit the parents. So usually what I have the workshop is the best is when they when the parent drop off their
kids and then we have the workshop or if it's online could be anytime. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you so much Mu for being here. So one of the reasons that we invited you was that we do have some schools who struggles with the um title one parent
engagement because they don't have a large fund and then one of the parent leader and I decided you know what what about some cooking class and nutrition you know we I remember you came to one of our meetings and I know this workshop is a free workshops maybe with your workshop and some of their you know
small amount of time Taiwan funding they can buy some materials or some supplies to support this workshop. So, um I believe our parent leader is on this call as well. So, I hope this is something we can consider moving forward. If they do not receive a large
amount of title one funding, maybe we can look into these options. So, thank you. Thank you for being here. >> Thank you for the invitation. Thank you, >> Bristol. Is your microphone working now? Show >> Can you hear me? >> Yes. Yes. >> Good. Thank you. Sorry.
>> Don't worry. Um I'm gonna share my screen. glad that you came back. Okay, let me close this and hey Crystal. So, Title One DAC members, Crystal
Gonzalez, MS379, DPAC chairperson, Jamie Wong, PS29, DPAC alternate, and we have a vacancy for the DPAC secretary. Next slide, please. And the duties and responsibilities of a
DAC secretary are the recording secretary shall prepare meeting notes, notices, agendas, signin sheets, record the minutes at all meetings. Next slide, please. >> Now I'm going to hand back over to Jenny.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. So we do want to share um every month we attend city pack uh meetings at the central level and get some updates and turn key to you and one of the big pushes was also NYC kids rise safe for
college program that Dr. Mike was you know had mentioned um in the beginning of this meeting. I do have I don't want to go in depth today since Dr. I already talked about it and I know we do have you know we have 1 hour so I don't want
to take too many of your time. So if you are a parent of a kindergarten to fourth grade your child is eligible to activate this account. This account would comes with an initial um $100 from the city. This account is managed and um uh is
owned and managed by Kids Rise. But once you activate the account with you and your child can watch the money grow and kids rise also managing it by reaching out to local businesses and local organizations to see if they can donate
and make this fund grow. So they will be investing this money on behalf of you. Once your child is ready uh and or has completed high school, they will reach out to the parents who have activated this account to proceed with the next step.
I do have a video two minutes video that I also want to play for you guys in case you are you are not familiar with this account. It's a two minutes video. So I want to make sure I play with the sound on. Am I sharing my screen right now? I am. Right. So, I'm going to stop sharing.
>> I want to make sure the sound is on. >> So, let me share to include sound. Okay. Got it. Kids rise. Every student should have opportunities, resources, and support to achieve their dreams. Research shows
that children with even a small savings account of $1 to $500 are three times more likely to enroll in college and more than four times more likely to graduate. Together, we can take small steps for big college and career dreams with the Save for College program. The
Save for College program has two parts, a scholarship account and a savings account. To help every family get started, NYC Kids Rise will provide an NYC scholarship account with an initial deposit of $100 to every public school
kindergartener and opportunities to earn more over time. Small steps now can make a big impact in the future. Here's how it works. Your kindergartener will be automatically enrolled in the Save for College program unless you choose not to participate. Log on to nycidsrise.org
to see your child's NYC scholarship account. Once activated, you earn an additional reward into the account, and you'll be able to track your child's balance over time. And that's not all. There will be other chances for NYC Kids
Rise and the community to add more money to your account in the future. We know that saving for college can be tough. It can feel too early or not in our budget. We're talking about small steps that can begin today. So once you
activate the scholarship account, you can open and connect a savings account so that you and your family can save in ways that make sense for you. A little amount set aside every week or month. Let's build a bright future for our kids
together. Find out how and NYC. >> All righty. So this was one of the big push from Central when we met with them. And this is also a big push from you know from the chancellor and from the superintendent. So uh we strongly encourage you to activate this account
while you are in the DOE because once you uh move out of the state or move out of the country you will no longer you know have access to activate it. But once you activate it uh before you decide to you know if you have these plans of moving out of the state or out
of the country you this account will still be yours. You can still watch it. You can't you know again this is not managed by you this is managed by kids rise they will be investing the money for you but once you activate it it will be yours and it they will reach out to
you once your child is ready after their college for any higher educational plans. If you have any questions about kids rise you always welcome to reach out to me or Jessica we are here to support you with this.
The next thing they u mention and that we are you know approaching is the pack elections and at the school level you will have the pack elections coming up. It is a two years term. So when we ran our DPAC election last year uh we have
Crystal and we have Jamie. Jaime's is still on her uh first year's term. So next year will be her second year term. And this way Jamie will remain with us at the DPAC. But Crystal in her own school, this is her second year term. So
we might lose Crystal if she decides to run again at her school. We can she can run for the DPAC as well. Anyone running for DPAC or nominating them themsel must be a you know a pack at their own school
enable to run for DPAC position. So we're hoping that Crystal will be running again. So this way we or anyone else are interested we can you know you can run for the DPAC and the election will take place in June on our June DPAC
meeting. So for June we will have two openings. We will have chairperson and a secretary. Again the secretary is optional. It's not a mandated but if you would like to we welcome you. would like to have a full um full team. But every
schools, every title one schools must establish a pack or DPAC and the mandated roles are chairperson and alternate and we must fill those. And if you have any questions, please reach out to me if you have any questions regarding your if you have concerns
about your upcoming pack elections. Again, pack elections are facilitated by your PAPA. So, please reach out to your PATA for support when it comes to running the election. >> Jenny, just so you know, I will be running again for both my school and
DPAC. >> Awesome. Thank you so much, Crystal. >> No need for thanks. Always welcome. >> So, during our June election, DPACK election, we will also like to meet corum because without the quorum, we can't we can't um conduct the elections.
So, please please join us. I'm going to go over some duties and uh responsibilities. Uh the chairperson should preside all meetings of the DPAC. They should uh delegate responsibilities to other members. They should serve as the repres representatives of the
district and sit on the DT. They should uh meet with elected board members to prepare agendas, items, etc. Meet every month beginning October to June. So they are responsible to conduct nine meetings in total. The duties of an alternate is to assist
the chairperson with their duties and the chairperson will also move up via secession if something happens to the chairperson or the chairperson for some reason you know step down or get dis get discharged from the school the alternate will be the person moving up
automatically and then we will open up an election to fill in the seat for an alternate. Let me admit someone that's coming in. And the duties of the recording secretary should prepare the meeting notices, agendas, and signin sheet and
record the meetings at all meetings. These are the dos and don't how you how schools can spend and what they can't spend the 1% engagement uh set aside fund to. I'm going to keep them around in case you are looking for these informations. They will be on every slide. I don't want you to be looking
for it, but they will be on every slide. And all our meeting materials can also be found on our D25 website under DPAC meeting and under as shared documents. Here is a list of our title one schools.
We do have 36 schools after under jurisdictions of uh district 25. Dr. Dantona, superintendent Dantona where 26 of them are title one schools. And this list keep growing. This is a list where we have um you know
these are some of the vendors that we have been invited and work with. We're going to try to build this list as much as we can so you guys have more options when it comes to that parent engagement set aside fund. I know it's hard sometimes to want to spend the money but
don't know how to spend the money. And again you guys are the parent voice. It has to be voted on of course you know via your with your school community but with this list you will have more choices. I'm going to add um Cornell University on it after our meeting and
I'm going to give the floor to our um family support coordinator Jessica. >> Thank you Jenny. Good evening everyone. So, yes, our next DPACK meeting will be um Tuesday, May 26th at 5:00 PM here on
Zoom. You can get onto the link on d25.nyc right here on the district website. Uh we will have a guest speaker from Queens Library and uh they have many great family resources to share with our
community. Next slide, please. uh our president's council meeting uh next president's council meeting will be May 18th which is on a Monday also on zoom and uh you can also click on the link as well in d25.nyc NYC right there
in our district website. Thanks Jenny. Next slide. >> Um just want to pick it back on your um so this is a meeting for all our PAP parent leaders but everyone's are welcome to join. >> Yes. Thank you Jenny. And we also have
our CEC uh meetings uh who which are in person and that will be Wednesday May 6th. Um, but you can also join in hybrid link and that can be found in also the D25NYC
or you can also go on to our district website which will be right under the CEC uh meetings as well. Next slide please. And we would like to thank everyone for joining our DPAC meeting. And um if
anyone has any other questions, please feel feel free. The floor is all yours. I'm going to sharing. If anyone have any questions, please unmute yourself. And again, should you have any concerns of with the upcoming pet elections or
even you know NYC Kids Rise account, please feel free to reach out to me and Jessica. We are always here to support you. Yes.