Um, if you want to share anything, feel free. Um, otherwise we will move on. >> I'm driving so I'm just listening. >> Okay, you got it. Uh, Crystal. Okay, guys. So, we are going to go right into it with our uh SLT training review. Uh,
so we're going to take about 20 minutes. um each of us in inside of our uh inside of our group. We'll break you up into small little breakout groups uh just to have a little bit of a chat around um the areas if we're if we're splitting up responsibilities, what is it that we're
going to do just as a in terms of who's going to be speaking when and what we're going to be sharing. Um we do have the uh the agenda in the um in the slide deck. So, um, the areas that we are going to have
multiple people presenting together, uh, Eden and I are going to do the welcome and introductions. Uh, Gus and Crystal, you're going to be talking about the SLT 101 and Chancellor's Regs. Um, Mr. Sarin is going to be talking about the progress monitoring slides, so he's
going to be on it all by his on his own island. Um, Rachel and Rob, you're going to be doing the work around MTSS. And then uh Paula, obviously you have your own slide deck. You you know that one already. So uh I don't know how much review you're going to really have to do there, but we're going to take a little
bit of time uh just now just to kind of go over the slides, make sure that everyone is comfortable. Um and that we can do it in the time frame which is currently set up. So um which might be a little bit tricky for for some of us dependent on the information that's
present. Uh Eduardo, I encourage you to join on to any one of those uh groups just so that you have, you know, um a space of being able to be there as a layer of support um you know, when we're going through this through this process. That would be fantastic if you can do
that. And the other thing that I'm going to ask, listen guys, two hours is a long time to listen to people. If we could look at our slides in really close really closely, where can we say less and then at the
end of it give an opportunity just for the schools to have a minute or two to talk, you know, um, you know, because listening for that long one, you guys know what's going to happen. People will be on the on their on their Zoom cameras off doing whatever it is that they need
to do at home. And I get it. I totally get it. I understand how that could become a reality. But if we could look at our slides, what big question or questions would we want to give at the end? Even if it's five 10 minutes, just take guys take a minute, a few minutes of pause based on what I have just
shared. We'll pop them right into their uh breakout rooms for their schools. Um and they can have at least five minutes to talk about what we've just discussed. So if it's around MTSS where I mean we don't have a huge amount of time for MTSS already it's 20 minutes but if we
can give them 5 minutes to do that I'm going to ask Uma to do that for progress monitoring um and uh Eden and I will try to work on where we can do that in the short window that we have for the introduction. So we're going to have to be like Micro Machines commercials in the beginning um
at least for Eden and I because that there's a lot to say there. Um, at the same time, we want to try to make sure that folks can can communicate with one another and not just have to listen the entire time. Um, so we're going to take the next 20 minutes uh,
pop you guys into your into a little breakout room just so you can have a quick little chat um, around what's there. So, what I'm going to do first is give you some time just to review um, on your own. That way when you get into
those breakout rooms, um, you know what? Actually, we'll just put you in the breakout room for for 20 minutes. You guys can organize how you want to review and then chat. But 20 minutes sound like enough time. >> Yes. Anyone think you need more than that? Less than that? 20 minutes should be good. Okay. Sounds good.
>> So, I'm I'm going to put you guys into the breakout rooms. Hi, Crystal. >> Hi. I'm driving. I'm pulling over. I'm going to pull over right now so I can pay attention. Okay. >> Okay. I um uh have a virus, so I'm
struggling with a cold, so that's why my voice might sound funny. Okay. >> Okay. I just pulled over and now you have my attention. >> Yes. Please be careful, Crystal. All right, Ma, you can log off. Do you
have any questions? >> I don't have to stay on for this. >> No, Dr. M just wants to know if you have any questions. Your slides are you all set? >> I have my presentation. I'm fine. And I could, you know, at the end I know I have to speed it up anyway. >> Okay.
>> All right. Um, yeah, I was able to get on Zoom, which was the main thing. I thought maybe I would have had a problem, but no problem. um with not not without ending it. Yeah, I don't think so. >> Lewis, um this is crazy. I don't have this on my calendar. I by by accident I
looked at Mike's calendar and I saw that there's a DLT meeting. I remember that there was one because I figured maybe it's canled. How come it's not on my calendar? Is there >> I don't know. Jenny said the same thing. So, I don't know. Yeah, because it's on my calendar.
>> Yeah, it's not on my calendar. I mean, I'm glad that I checked Max's calendar today. >> All right, Lou. So, I could log off, right? >> Yeah, you're good. >> You're good. >> Okay, I'll talk to you later then. All right, bye. >> Let me just let them know I'm going to bring them back in because I don't think
they can even let me do that. I hate it when I do that. >> Well, Dr. Mike, you did hear the good news, right? >> Yes, I did. >> Okay. Hey, I'm just making sure >> I did. >> Okay. >> You're going to start hearing people ask for things now. Paula, >> what's the good news? We got money.
>> I don't know that that makes sense to do those types of things, though. >> What? >> I'll talk to you about it. Request. >> Okay. Okay. Goodbye. >> Okay, we're all done. >> Guys, I'm sorry about that. I I forgot to set the uh the timer. It was going to pull you back in like two minutes. So,
um I'm going to resend the options. So, sorry about that. and we'll do uh we'll do 18 minutes since I just messed that up. Um all right, sorry. I'm going to resend you back out. Um we'll have uh 18 minutes. Thanks, guys.
Mike, can you hear me? >> I can, guys. >> Yeah, it would be helpful if we knew uh the number of slides that we should do. uh can you let us know we're from number whatever to whatever that way u we won't go over you know additional ones
>> so Gus whatever whatever you think is is important for us to to cover inside of that space you know so we have a lot of 40 minutes for you I mean a lot of these slides >> okay so the slide yeah the slides have already been cut down Gus I think it was which one should he do and I think
that's what you're doing now you and Crystal should determine that now >> so we're doing all of the ones that reset me. I guess >> yeah, it's it's a shorter deck >> provided provided that you think that we're good inside of it. Yeah. >> Yeah, I'm sure we're fine. Uh Okay. >> Okay. Thanks. That that that's helpful.
>> You got it, >> Mike. In terms of uh the flow, um Lewis is going to be showing all of the slides for everybody or are we uploading and then waiting for things to, you know, share and so on? >> So, all all of the slides are already up
there. It would probably be best whomever it is that is presenting manage their slide just so that you guys have the cadence of what you want to be able to say when um but they will all all be up there and available. We can probably just have the agenda uh ready for for
you with all of the links so that when it's when it's your your go all you do have to do is click the link in the presentation. Um, it might slow it down if we're we're asking someone else to manage the uh the slide deck as we're going through. Um, >> okay. >> All right. So, they'll all be accessible
to all of you guys. It's right in today's agenda. >> Um, and we'll we'll have it shared. If it becomes an issue, then you let me know, Cus. >> Yeah. >> And we can certainly help. >> Lewis always jumps in. Yeah. >> I could I could share this slides, but like Mike said, it's easier. The flow is
easier because you know it's easier for us to do it, right? Okay. >> Okay. Uh, everyone feeling comfortable right now with uh with who's going to be sharing what? Anyone um uncomfortable with anything? It should be pretty straightforward yet. Thanks, Eden. Um, I
think my biggest part is managing to to say less. So, um, that's what I'm going to try to do. I got to work on that for myself uh to say less so that we can get right through it. We will have a couple of different spaces where we'll try to create a little bit of an opportunity
for talk. Um so most definitely during a progress monitoring section whom it will um we'll only share for one of the goals how we're progress monitoring and then we'll ask the other groups uh all the groups that'll be present. We'll create
34 um 34 rooms for based on the schools that will be there. Um that way they can hop in. In most cases they will have someone else to be able to talk to. in those cases where it's just one person, they can remain back in the big room and they can have a chat with me if they
like. Um so that you know we we have opportunities for everyone to to either ask a question or think through um some of the things that they just heard in um in their own group with their own schools. So, we will do that for progress monitoring. We'll do that for
MTSS. Um, and then, you know, Paula will do her piece on the budget, and we will bring it all to a wrap. >> Okay. >> The uh for the for the breakout rooms, I was going to make a slide that just has like breakout room number one and what DBN. >> Yeah.
>> Uh because we can't rename 40 breakout rooms. So, we'll have that slide that we can shoot up so that people say, "Okay, I'm from this school. I'm going to join breakout room number 17." >> Perfect. >> Yeah. Whatever it is. So, I'm going to have that ready. And then just so everyone knows, uh, as of this morning,
Hello. Oh, >> sorry. We froze, guys. We >> froze. >> So, registration is 151 people for four and 110 people for seven. >> Bravo. >> Yeah. >> Very good. Yeah, I think we're we're probably short
here or theres in terms of the some people that haven't registered, but you know, that's 260 people across the district is good. Okay. All right. Any questions about this afternoon? All right. Listen, I think we're in we're in good shape. I know we're going
to have a couple of uh um little areas where, you know, some of us might have to pick up for one of our uh DT uh colleagues because uh district 26 is has theirs going on at the exact same time as us. Um so Gus does serve multiple
multiple districts. Eden is on in multiple districts and I think Rachel might also be uh supporting uh both us in district 26 as well. So, um >> Rachel, you too, right? >> Yep. >> Yeah. So, um you guys going to be doing
a little bit of uh of tag team action for both districts and hopping around. So, >> uh if there are any issues, just let us know so that you know we can support um as much as possible. Um okay, good. So,
just moving on with uh with the agenda. I know that Eduardo just made a request. He said he has to hop into another meeting. I want to give uh the high school superintendent an opportunity to share uh their report. So, Eduardo, we're going to switch around the the agenda a little bit so you can present.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Uh good morning everyone. Um trying to um sending a request so I can share my screen as well. Okay. Good morning everyone. Can everyone see my screen?
>> Yep, you're good. >> Okay. So, um I've been doing a lot of um web work uh recently uh just so to keep our community informed. Uh um again, our website is queensnorthhs.org. And here you'll find a lot of
information that I've been updating, including um the the district um uh parent leaders um conference that we all attended. um um at LaGuardia Community College as well as some newsworthy um information that is um and events that
are happening in our schools. Um up next we have our Queens North High School's fair coming up um this week, Wednesday, November 5th, uh from 5:00 p.m. to 700 p.m. at Martin Vanurren High School. All the all this information including the
flyer and details is posted on our website. Um again um I have been adding a lot of events um including workshops for parents. Um these are all of our events. Um we have a total of five
workshops in November. Um and these are the topics parents can register. Everyone is welcome. These workshops are um are provided um through our community partner which is Marble Hill. And so all the information is there. Even some of
the um workshops are in Spanish. Uh and also um developing emotional intelligence. Um we have um dealing with anxiety. Um we also um um I'm also advertising our um the citywide
transition summit for high school students. The flyer and information is all here and is translated in about eight languages. So I I try to make it easy and I combine all these PDFs so parents can just scroll to the language
that um that they prefer. Uh again all this information is available on our website and if we go to the month of December we have uh four workshops coming up uh you know um managing social media over the winter break driving
together improving family communication supporting your child with stress and so on and so forth. So please I invite everyone to um explore our website and see what the options that we're offering in terms of uh family of uh workshop
offerings for the month of November and the month of December. And um that is my high school update for today. Thank you. >> Okay. Thanks so much Eduardo. I appreciate you appreciate you sharing. Um
and um yeah, listen, I think the the more that we can get out there what we're doing, the better off our community is. So, um you know, taking advantage of of the the tech tools is is uh something that we have to really continue to explore. I know Mr. Marino
and I were talking quite a bit about um AI and making sure that it's making its its home uh in our schools in different ways and allowing our jobs to become more efficient and um you know not uh not impacting the us with the
amount of time sometimes that things take uh to do. >> Yes. Yes. I forgot to mention one more thing. Um, under our parents section, I added um, you know, resources for our immigrant community as well as to uh,
information on um, SNAP in case for those families that are affected. Um, I did um, you know, the the pantry finders and for additional questions, the websites that they can um, visit uh, in order to obtain more information and support. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Eduardo. and you know the the the scenario with with SNAP. I know that uh Lamar is going to bring something up in a little bit just around ways that we might be able to contribute. I know some of our schools are doing that on their own. They're doing you know whether it's food drives or what have you or they
have their own pantries um available and you know maybe there are some ways that we can think about it through the through the district lens and on how we can support as well. I don't have a um necessarily great answer to say, okay, let's just do this. Um because our district is is pretty expansive. So, we
can't necessarily have a just a a district location where it can impact everyone. Uh but maybe we can think a little bit more deeply around how uh we can support that too. Uh so, more to follow on that. Um, but just going back to um
to uh my presentation and we will make this quick because we do have a big night ahead of us. Uh, but I just want to share a couple of quick things with you guys. Um, arts funding. Wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that we received
$75,000 for uh for the arts. um the three groups that um we utilize our dollars with. And when I say utilize, I had to put them in budget lines. And the max that we could spend is 25,000 on any one of these
organizations. Um and so the groups that I put money into right now, and we have to work on organizing how we'll spend it, but $25,000 for Arts Connection, $25,000 for Flushing Town Hall, and $25,000 for
studio in a school. Uh when I shared this with the CEC, uh a couple of things that they were were excited about was the idea of doing an arts festival, some kind of an arts festival where we bring parents and kids together to do something that is really uh exciting about the arts. So, um we're going to
start exploring that. But if you guys have any recommendations, that would be great, too. who I know last year we were able to do some um some uh cultural shows that our schools were able to take advantage of whether that was se celebrating uh our Hispanic culture in
in uh in the district or uh our Asian culture. I know that um you know many of our schools were able to to um offer this as an opportunity, but if there are any quick thoughts, I know that soon enough I'm going to have to start
reaching out to our institutions um about how to spend the arts funding. Does anyone have anything that that hits them right away that you say, you know what, it would be nice if we do something along these lines um from the district lens, maybe something that invites parents and kids together. Uh to
me that is what I would love to do. $75,000 while it sounds like it's a lot, it's not really all that much money. Um when you think about it, um but last year we were able to support a lot of schools if with at least a show that they got to bring grade level groups in.
Um you know, anyone have any thoughts, you know, how we can kind of utilize it efficiently across the district? >> I have a suggestion. So, um, Materials for the Arts, they usually have, you know, a couple of, uh, resident artists
that can do workshops for parents and students. And, um, I have, um, seen how they, um, efficiently and they have everything. They have all the materials there. So, um, I usually bring, um, all of our Queens North parent coordinators
for our June meeting. Uh, that's usually our final meeting. It's usually a materials for the arts and they also get treated to a what is called a light shopping experience where they get um different materials to either um supplement a a an event that is
happening in their schools, a parent event or or even decorate a a parent um welcome space. And so they're they're really great in in providing uh workshops that incorporate um you know uh creativity uh works of art that
include parents and students. >> Thank you for that, Eduardo. Anyone else? Any any thoughts? >> Mike, in the past, District 25 has exhibited uh student work at the Queens Museum. Mhm. >> So, you might want to talk to them about
exhibiting some of the uh art that's produced u from the schools um uh and highlight, you know, the um uh the the schools and the kids in uh the Queens Museum. They're a city agency after all.
>> Thank you, Gus. >> I'd say that um you know, I'm I'm always an advocate for art making when it comes to like children creating stuff, but we do do a lot of that in in the schools. So when if you have an opportunity to provide us with a uh performance, a ballet, the opera, um you know, this is
New York City. It's the cultural center of North America. And if we could get kids, I mean, my my um my third grade when I was in the principal of our school when I was in elementary school, Dr. Levitman at PS91 in District 24 took
us to see um uh South Pacific, which was such an odd choice, but I'll never forget it. It was like this huge massive opera >> and this one these people like singing in in such a profound way that gave me an experience that I would never have gotten. So even something something like
you know >> arts not just a cool play that kids would like which is more or less what they would watch at home but it's in play version but maybe culturally outside of the realm of what they would choose themselves you know exposing them to something. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. So, I I I we did put aside and I it's not in my budget yet, but there was like uh a few thousand that were also towards Broadway style shows. Um the the trouble is that I can't not with that much
money. It's actually do it does wouldn't even put a dent when you think we got 23,000 kids. um you know the the number of shows that I would people that I would be able to support that with is not as as plentiful as I would hope. Um but we did put some money aside as well.
Hopefully that shows up in the budget too uh for Broadway shows to also but we can do some inschool uh shows uh certainly not the same level as what you would see on Broadway in terms of the uh the enormity of the experience but um I
know that those went over pretty well last year too. The the China dance performance was really good from what I understand. Uh we had a Mexican um an African drumming scenario. So, we had a number of things that happened and you know, we we'll try to do some of that,
too. And wherever we can get kids into experiences is what I would love to do. Flushing Town Hall got great feedback last year and they're right here, you know, so we we'll try to tap into each of them and, you know, as those dollars become available in my in my budget,
we'll um you know, we'll work towards spending it down and getting some feedback from you guys. So, just something for you to think about between now and next month. Um, because I I I would love for schools to start getting going in Decemberish,
January, you know, if we can. Okay. Um, moving right along. Uh, these are just some some important dates for you guys. Um, we're having an L training, uh, training for our multilingual learner families. Uh,
November 12th, it is a an English version with Spanish translation specifically for Spanishspeaking families. Um, we'll have a Mandarinon uh, speaking only uh, session on November 19th.
Uh, again, all our support language at home and in school. The special education session is on the 24th and then we will have a mathematics virtual session on the 25th. Um so encourage families get we're going to continue to get the information out there um for
everyone. These are just some enrollment dates. I'm not going to read through all of these. We talk about them often, but just know that they are here. make sure that you're comfortable with them and you can talk about it with any of your um you know constituent groups that we keep our you know fingers on this so
that if families need to know we can bring them to a space of understanding. So all of those are here from middle school admissions timeline uh to kindergarten which is coming up soon to 3k prek beginning in January um and then
G&T in April. So just making sure that you have uh awareness of these uh so that if anyone needs you, you know where to find the information. Uh SLT survey, we're going to end our training session with this. It will be put into um you know the a small little closing
deck that I will I will create um for anyone that is there to please complete this both in each of the sessions. So, we should have upwards of um the 260 plus responses before the end of the night, which will give us a little bit more to look at in our December meeting,
which by the way is in person, just so that I don't forget to say that later. Uh December's meeting is an in-person session here at Lyndon. Uh our goals, you guys know what these goals are already, just to give you a little bit of an update on data. So, uh
I ready reading, uh and a cadence, just take a moment and glance at that, please. That would be great. I'll move to the next slide. Take a moment. Just take a look at that as well. You'll see orange is 25 26, the navy blue is 2425, and the lighter blue is 23
24 for each of the subgroups. And now here's a cadience. Let's take a moment to review the eadience. Any noticings, guys, from these three slides? Here's the overall, here's the I Ready breakdown,
and then here's the Acadians proficiency from our baseline. Any noticings? Anyone want to call out anything? And a couple of things that you should should notice if you if you didn't, is that our starting place is relatively similar to uh past years when we're looking at it across grades. Um you will see that
there is a slight difference in terms of entry point in I ready. That's for three to eight for each of our subgroups. It's not a significant difference. Um our kids aren't expected to be at grade level standard at the beginning of the year. Um you know the goal is that we
reach it by the end of the year. Things that we're going to be doing as a result. Our focus is to make Whoops. Our focus is to make sure that we are prioritizing our standards. Standards that have consistently come up around themes,
central message, um, and supporting details in the text. Those typically are areas that, uh, come up on a routine basis. So, in alignment with our priority, we're going to be spending a lot of time unpacking our standards and thinking through our resources to
support improvement. Um we're going to continue to identify our learners in need of targeted intervention which uh we've shared in the past will be around spire the phonics for reading um rewards and just words for our kids in grades three to eight
in for our younger kids. What we do know is that first sound fluency, phone segmentation, and nonsense word fluency continue to be areas that we want to want to grow in, especially for our kids in K through two, uh, to make sure that we built up that decoding muscle so that
our kids could read with fluency. And that is one of the parts that I know for our kids that we're consistently trying to build. It's not so much that they can decode now is that can they decode and read across the page uh with that automaticity because when they don't and you know I can speak for myself as an
adult and you guys might nod your heads too. Um there are times when I'm just kind of looking at words and not really absorbing them and then I get through the end of the sentence I'm like oh my god what did I just read from word one to word 10. Um and I think the same thing will happen to our kids unless we
build that muscle. So, um, you know, more on this will will continue to be a focus of ours across the district. Um, few other quick things, our SEAL, uh, survey, um, you know, what we're going to continue to build on here as a
district, you'll notice that, uh, for the most part, um, the the range for our kids in like the 70th 70% agreement range on most of these questions, um, for our learners. As we get older, the numbers and the percentages start to go
down um in terms of any one of these components, whether it's um you know, community agreements, the connection before content, and how they feel about it. uh their relationship skills, although it's still still in the 70s, which I'm um um encouraged by. But as
you look through this, you'll see that there are certain areas that uh our kids tend to struggle with more and self-management, social awareness, supportive school environment, those are all things that we do need to continue to work on. A few things that you guys should know
um that we are going to continue to do. We just started to build across all of our middle schools. We're developing a peer mediation program uh which is which is exciting. We've been working with OSYD. We've had children trained at our middle school level um for half of our
middle schools. Uh the other half are still yet to be trained, but they're in process of with the goal of supporting conflict resolution um you know at the middle school level. So more to follow on that, but we are adding that to the to the space of of learning for our
kids. um so that you know they can be part of the solution uh which I think oftentimes they're not always uh so we do want them to be part of the solution moving forward and we want our schools to be really able to utilize this data to help make decisions that will help
support the kids you know in their uh in their growth at the school level. So continued emphasis on relationship building, the use of the mind-up lessons as well uh with connection before content and mindup seal. um as we move forward
uh mathematics really quick just take a a quick glance and we'll spend more time in December going over this but uh just so that you guys have a frame of reference around the data you'll see a posit more of a positive
trend in mathematics over the years than you did in reading um especially from 23 24 we added 22 here as well just to give you a little bit of an understanding of how some of those children that were one grade level or below have now since moved to that uh early on or above. Um
it's about an 8% change from 23 to where we are currently and you know testing around the testing the same grade level groups with the same screener. Uh you'll also see that in the percent breakdown although the entry points are
low here we do need to improve for our targeted subgroups. There's no doubt um uh particularly our Hispanic learners, our black learners, our children with IEPs and our L's uh the starting place is rather low when you consider the
overall starting place here. Uh overall is 33% and then when you look at our targeted subgroups they are their starting place is much lower. Uh so it's really digging into our new curriculum in amplify for our upper grades and those that are piloting uh as well as building through sensemaking which we're
going through at our training sessions um at the district level. So more to follow in terms of progress on this as we go through the year. Um but we will keep our eye on the prize when it comes to that. uh civics for all and the take
action um projects are were in a in a good space with our uh latest training uh that we had. We had representatives from across the district at our uh session to begin project soapbox um and thinking through what those take action projects will be moving forward. Uh
Jenny and one of our CEC members have been going to schools to support safer college. Uh we are really hoping that that 10% increase uh does happen at the year as the year goes on. We'll give you a little bit more of an update on what they are seeing in terms of change in the number of accounts that are
activated uh over the next several months with in consultation with New York City Kids Rise. So we'll give you an update um shortly after they start engaging our schools which I am excited about um as they're coming out at it from multiple angle angles. Jenny with
her capacity to speak um u Chinese and one of our CEC members with the capacity to speak Spanish and connecting with our communities to make sure that they are aware of what the program is and how to support it. Uh parent survey uh this I I am going to
do a video um request from um it it will be me doing a a short little video request for all of our families. We only had like 6600 responses um from the parent survey thus far to see what their perspective is. Um you can see here
briefly um what that data looks like. Our percentages for the most part are in the 90s uh in terms of parents and whether or not they agree or disagree. Um and I did take your feedback inside of this space. I know some of you asked to remove I think it might have been you Rob that said let's remove that neutral
and just say uh agree disagree uh rather than keeping it as um as broad as it was and we added a couple of other questions that were requested as well to get some additional feedback from our community. The one that's really really interesting and I'm going to be tapping into some
local organizations wing from our team is uh going to be helping us organize some some workshops for families based on and parenting. We had almost 300 of the 644 there over 350 parents that said yes please give me some more support at
home and more parenting support. Um, so we're going to be doing some outreach to them and as well as our schools to to, you know, organize around this, but just to give you guys a little bit of an update on what that looks like. I'm hoping with my video message that more
people will complete it. Um, so stay tuned on that and uh we'll kind of go from there. And lastly, chronic absenteeism. Um, I am also going to do a little bit of outreach from the district lens as well. uh as our schools I you know we
typically do pretty well at the beginning of the year. We're second highest attendance rate in New York City right now which is fantastic. Um but we know that December, January, February are often tough months. Uh so I want to keep pushing out that message to make sure that our kids stay in school and
that our parents continue to make great choices for their kids. Uh keeping them good and healthy to be in our buildings as well. Um but that concludes um you know my space. I did want to keep it short so that we can um get on with our day because I know many of you have uh
will be on later. So, um any questions or comments about what I shared? Okay, we're good. All right. Um Mr. Marino, anything from CSA? Uh we had our annual conference this uh Saturday. It was a well attended event
uh which culminated in an announcement from the chancellor and uh Henry our president uh stating that all schools will be held harmless this year uh which is uh great news. Um and we are very happy about that. Other
than that uh we just keep on keeping on on our side of the uh our side of the fence over here. >> Awesome. Thanks Rob. And Rob uh you want to quickly just touch base with everyone around um kind of bringing in some AI training? I know that that's something that you guys were thinking about too.
>> Yeah. Um the the whole theme of the um the the the morning was around how educators can uh not just use AI but use it in a way that is ethical that doesn't remove the human element, our creativity
and our um expertise from it but use it as a productive tool to allow us to do more in the um during the one thing that we can't create more of which is time. And uh some of my colleagues are using
it for uh ways you know you you you take notes in a meeting, you take those notes, you put it into an uh generative AI and it it could give you um an email to send out based on those notes. It could give you preparation uh actions to uh get
those that information into place for your school. It could it could uh aggregate data for for you as a as an administrator. if teachers it can use it to um take information they have from students and create plans to support them but we want to do it in a way that's ethical that makes sense and
while this is still relatively new although it's not that that new um we want to be ahead of that curve so uh me and um principal advoc from Bell Academy will be meeting with um someone who Dr. that Danton has put us in uh to contact
with to kind of kind of uh flesh out what it is that we could be best supported in with this work. >> Yeah, thanks Robin. I'm excited about that and you know the the the whatever we can do to tap into the technology to make our lives um easier and more
efficient you know I'm I'm certainly all for and you know there there is a reality to you know only the 24 hours in a day right and sometimes it feels like we need more hours in that day in order to get accomplish what we need so um I think the purposeful use of the the
digital tools is is a really really important thing um and you We have to embrace some of the things that sometimes folks feel concerned about. Um, you know, and it's the AI is is accessible to our kids all day every day
and we not only we need to learn it better so that we can help them become more efficient uh consumers of it too. Um because every one of those tools are great but if we don't know how to use it can become a problem at the same time. So uh more to follow on that but thanks
for sharing Rob. Appreciate it. Uh Lamar, anything from uft? >> Yeah. So, hi everybody. Good morning. You can hear me, right? >> Yep. >> Yeah. Okay. So, we also had our um we had our teacher union day event yesterday. Um which was well represented
by our district. two of our chapter leaders, uh, Mario at 185 and Nicole at 129 were awarded the Eli Tractenberg award, which is, um, it acknowledges the the chapters, the school chapters that
are really active and do exceptional work and are involved and that the chapter leaders are, you know, helping to support our union, our union work and our union message, which makes my work a lot easier. So, it was great to support them. We had a great turnout there in terms of district 25. Um, we also to
touch on what you mentioned earlier. Um, we are in the very, this was an off thereord conversation, but we are in the very very very early stages of what you mentioned. Well, PS21 was thinking about, and I use
words like they're thinking and maybe and possibly, but the conversation came up about possibly having a food pantry in the school, like maybe by the lobby. And that conversation led to maybe this is something we could do in that part of our district up in up in the Whiteststone area or maybe we can do
this districtwide who would be interested. And I don't have any commitments from anyone yet, but it is something that we kind of want to explore um within the next, you know, x amount of weeks. months and see where we can go with this. So, um it I think it'd be
really really great to engross our ourselves in our school community, you know, and and our within our parents and such more than more so than we already do. So, we're really looking into that. And then last, um we're doing a I I got a phone call and email from St. John's
University from the ticket sales. So, they are they offered us the opportunity to go as a district to a a basketball game against Old Miss at the Garden um on Saturday, December 6th. So, I spoke with Eden about it and saying, "Well,
they're recognizing it as educator appreciation night. Great. Yeah, woohoo." But then, why not we get if there are educators, if there are teachers who want to go, maybe we can get some parents involved, too, and make it a really strong community event. So, I don't have the flyer today. They're
working on it. They said they'd have it for me by Wednesday. So, assuming we can get it done by Wednesday, I'd love to just share it with you all and help spread the word in our district, to our parents, to our staff, and so and you know, let's make a nice day out of that event as well.
>> Yeah, thanks, Lamar. Um yeah, the only the only thing, you know, it'll the what the flyer looks like, you know, we'll have to we'll have to review to make sure that it doesn't have anything there that um gets us into any kind of murky in kind of any murky water about receiving something. But in general,
yeah, in general, you know, the idea of being able to come together in community, I think is a good thing. And I know that's something that Eden, myself, and Rachel have been talking about as well. you know, continuing this whole CEC district collaboration around promoting community- based types of of
opportunities. And I think both the the notion of a pantry as well as the idea of just coming together for for a game um you know is are good opportunities for folks to come together. Um, you know, there are things there that that we do have to make sure we're
mindful of as um, you know, while receiving tickets is great, it does come with its space of the fact that we're receiving something. So, uh, you know, we have to we have to definitely, you know, loop those in that need to be looped in to make sure that we are all copesthetic there. >> Um,
>> well, for the record, for the record, we do have to pay for them. They're not free. >> Okay, good. Perfect. >> Yeah, just so you're aware of that. Yeah, >> perfect. Then that makes me feel better. as long as I'm anywhere anywhere on the the uh the form that says talk to Mike about it. >> You and me.
>> Talk to Mike. Just so you know, if we sell out, we sell out. >> Oh yeah. Well, listen, that's a that's a different that's a different thing alto together, >> you know. And listen, Eden, you weren't um part of the CC when this happened. But years ago, we used to at the
district level organize going to the Mets games and we went to the field level and everything. The kids got to go on the field celebrate and we had to stop that, you know. So, it was uh you know, in our mind's eye, it was like,
"Oh, what a great opportunity." But one game, Lewis, how many did we do that one year? I think we did three separate games because the the amount of folks that wanted to go, one game wasn't enough and tickets, >> we hear the same heard the same feedback
like how could you offer something that not everyone has a chance to do. So went from one game to two games to three games where we were on the field. I think you know they even had some of us throw out the the first pitch or be part of the first pitch ceremony. Um, but
that was also problematic and they told us that we could not do that any longer. So that's why we don't do it anymore, you know, but it's um, you know, a game like like St. John's, that's a that's a different scenario. I don't control that, you know. I won't put a stamp on
that. I think it's nice for everyone to do, but I can't enter as the organizer, if that makes sense. >> Um, okay. Uh, anything from CC Eden? >> So, our next meeting is this Wednesday
at 7. We will have somebody going over high school admissions for those eighth grade parents. I was actually going to ask Lewis if he wants to send out a lovely RSVP again. Um, and then yeah, we're going to be working with Lamar to get this event kind of going. Um, we will have to cap
it somewhere obviously, but Lamar and I are working out the logistics with that. Um, but definitely the conversation that Dr. Mike and I were just kind of hinting at in general for schools just being mindful where it is a first come first serve where but also talking about
inclusivity of like the students. That's something that's come up recently in my school and we we know it's obviously not just one school that's going to run into that problem. So we want to make sure that we're like really talking about like inclusivity and how to make sure
that everyone who wants to be included can be included. So, that's something I'm going to be bringing up with the CEC also, just as a result of some lovely events that played out over the last two weeks. >> Yeah, thank you. Thank you for that, Eden. Is SCA coming to
>> They're not coming to this one. They said they can come in December. >> Okay, cool. >> So, was the big the big hook for this month is the high school admissions presentation. >> And um who's doing it? Nicole. >> Nicole. >> Yeah. And I know we have three different
uh levels of interpretation this time. So we don't have just the Chinese. We also have Spanish and I think one other one she had mentioned Egypt. I don't remember who it is off hand, but we do have interpretation for >> in personangation for other languages. Okay. Yeah, I'll draft a I'll draft a message to families
inviting them. >> I meant to tell you Friday, but with Halloween, I just completely forgot. >> It's all good. Listen, I probably wouldn't have sent it anyway until tomorrow. >> Okay. Awesome. And Rachel, anything that from uh from President's Council? >> Yes. Um we had quite a discussion at our
last meeting regarding the latest direction from the chancellor's um office regarding bake sales and um there's there never >> candy issue. I think Rachel was the biggest part of it.
>> Yes. The candy issue about not selling candy and soda. and for those schools that already have uh supply, what to do with that? And so we did have some answers at our meeting. But um my co-president Veronica is going to
address these issues at the chancellor's parent advisory council meeting um the CPAC, which is a citywide meeting that she attends. So we'll see what um what feedback, if any, we'll have any updates for for the next meeting. But it has
impacted quite a few schools in our district that have purchased candy or um supplies that they wanted to sell to the students that based on this new direction would not be able to to do. So we want to try and support our schools
in the best way possible and figuring out what do they do with it. So that's the main thing that's going on. Also, at our November meeting, we're going to try and make it um uh financial based, so helping schools with um how to
keep accurate records, how to deal with banking issues. That seems to be a repeated theme um in some of the issues that our schools have been having where banks are requesting certain documentation or they're not receiving um accurate um
banking statements or I mean financial statements from previous boards. And so there's just been a lot of financial um questions and concerns from our schools that we want to try and address. um
districtwide. >> Yeah, I appreciate that too, Rachel, because the the the one thing that uh that that can get us into into issues is anything on the financial side. So, the more everyone is squared away on um you know, the the rules of the road and how
do we sustain um you know, our accounts? Well, I think I'm um I'm really excited about uh cuz no one wants to get involved in something where there's concerns about, you know, the dollars and cents of the role, right? >> You guys are there as as parent volunteers and, you know, that can only
add layers of of stress to the to the fund if we're not sure exactly how to do it. So, uh I appreciate you guys bringing that up. Uh go ahead, Eden. I see your hand up. >> So, two things. Um going back for a second to the food pantry thing I just wanted to touch base on. I know that a
lot of schools are starting to do for like preparation for Thanksgiving food drives. So, if we can kind of maybe promote that across the district to kind of have all schools do it. I know like my school, it's student council run. Um, but they're doing that. They're doing like money for toys for toy drives. Like
they're doing all different like drives right now for that. So, that was the other part. And then to go along with what Rachel was saying, there was also something that came up during president's council about the rule on how many fundraisers in a year, the 14 fundraisers in a year. Um, and that concern came up a little bit as well
because I know some schools happen to do a little bit more than others. Um, so that was something else that came up. And then going back to your arts conversation, I know you and I and the council have spoken about seeing about community theater stuff in the area also and different programs like that. Sorry, I was in the school at the time
during all that because it was also parent engagement time. So, I was playing gym and being on the meeting. So, I apologize for backtracking. >> Nice. Um, yeah, I mean, we do we're we're doing our um Thanks for giving day walk um as
a district uh as well. We will be sharing that out widely, you know, for community members and that does go to a local food food pantry, all of the things that are collected. So um you know we will be encouraging as many people as possible. Um I think how that
becomes an organized space of the work uh moving forward is something that we can talk about. You know we do have folks that do have in food insecurity across the district. Um and how can we help as as a as a as a school district
um with a couple of things. One is making sure that there is clarity around where they can go if they need help. uh but also you know in what small ways can we you know offer opportunities. I know you know many of our schools have created a care closet or uh things of
that nature in their schools already that those are things that are happening um you know how um how much that's publicized and shared is usually not beyond the school. So I think it's important that you know we do
highlight the great things that some of our most of our buildings are already doing on behalf of their the folks that they serve. So um yeah but more to follow please keep thinking on it and you know ways that we can organize we will um great space for us to talk at
President's Council and uh the CEC also. Okay. Does anyone have any new business? All right, let me make sure we still have six because then we can come to consensus on the minutes. I have one, two, three,
four, five, six. We have six. Uh, guys, if we revisit the minutes, do we have because I I had asked you guys to review them at the beginning. Do we have consensus on the minutes? Rachel, yes. Thank you. Rob, yes. >> Yes.
>> Eden, yes. Perfect. Eduardo, we're good. Okay. All right, guys. Um, thank you so much for being here. We we managed to give you have 30 35 minutes back on uh what a regular meeting would be. Um, I look forward to seeing you guys later and get our folks good and trained on uh
SLT. Uh, and I thank you guys for giving giving that time. I know it's it's a lot in your schedule. So, I appreciate you guys. >> Have a good day, everyone. >> See you later.