[Music] on does everyone see my my PowerPoint my screen yep it's visible Danny okay thank you so much okay good evening everyone um good evening to our district 25 family our Title One P pack members
our superintendent Dr dentona and our Deputy superintendent Mr sarin and lisis batito thank you for always showing by um to support and by attending this meeting Welcome to our March dpack meeting it is now um
603 and we're going to start the recording Louis are you recording right now okay okay I want to make sure I don't hit stop so here is the agenda for tonight's meeting Mr Mitchell will review the meeting Norms in a bit uh and to
introduce the pack team and then give the floor to the super superintendent Dr dentona Who will start his report Mr Mitchell will then introduce our next gu guest speaker it's uh from Office uh of language access who will be talking
about office of language access what they do and the parent facing component that all family should be aware of and then we will be uh introducing Ryan M the founder of turoo and I will be going into um CC
election update and school surveys Mr Mitchell yes all yours thank you so much Jenny and good evening everyone uh my name is Chris Macho I am the DPAC uh chair person um
thank you and I'm going to share the uh meeting Norms uh if everyone will give me their attention thank you so much so the meeting Norm starts and end on time one voice when speaking this is a safe space
to speak um one two three and then me if you have spoke already allow three people to speak before you speak again please be sure to respect all be present
be engaged and be involved so I will introduce uh everyone else on the rest of the DPAC member team uh that will be Crystal Gonzalez as secretary thank you so much Crystal
Katherine St Pierre as alternate and again myself Christopher Mitchell as chairperson thank you Mr Mitchell next I'd like to introduce superintendent Dr dantona Dr
dantona yes good evening thank you so much uh Mr Mitchell appreciate thank you uh for for being here and for conducting the meeting of course I have um a present just uh my my report to share with you I do like to share the same
report uh with deac as I would with our community ucation Council uh and our president's Council to keep you all informed as to the current state of where we are um as a district so I'm going to share my screen and then share my uh presentation with you guys
tonight um so things that that I'll cover just a couple of update updates and reminders um big shout out for some of our children for respect for all week um Wellness day that we're current in the process of organizing and then the current state of performance across our district when it
comes to our priorities and midyear check-in as all of our kids have completed their first uh their second excuse me the midyear assessment at this point um so just beginning just a big congratulations to our students and that are moving on within the context of the
spelling be so we have David from is uh from ps-130 divine grace from is- 250 and Jason from JHS 185 uh all will be moving on to the Citywide spelling be in March uh super excited for them and looking for forward to um for them doing
really really well at the Citywide spelling be also uh thank you to all of our pronouncers and all those that helped support it including one of our instructional leads uh Melinda will willins who sustains this work every year for our district uh and the burrow of Queens so big thanks to
her one of the the spaces of work that you'll that you'll hear me talk about throughout the year uh and one I want to emphasize here as well um is the importance of civics and the Civic responsibilities that we're trying to impress upon our children and how their voice really really matters uh so this
image is just something of one of our schools that have reached out to burough president Richards uh to express their their application for res Grant to support some schoolwide improvement needs that they have uh so big shout out to our students for for doing that Outreach and and for burough president
Richards for opening his doors um to hear from our kids so um really looking forward to more and more of these types of um spaces of Outreach from our children because their voice is really do matter and they're really important uh for them to grow in this space um
respect for all winners uh big shout out to Elvis from 209 Anthony from 209 Aaliyah Chris Mauna Savannah chance and Chris from 201 Stella and Benjamin from the pre centers for their uh for their hard work within the context of an essay
contest poster contest and multimedia contest so big shout out to them for their for putting in the work and the effort uh and for uh receiving that honor of winning the contest for their respective grade and for their school uh
also shout out to Ming Kang from our Middle School 25q 185 Json from 185 and the multimedia contest for Isabella from uh Bell Academy 294 so shout out to our learners for their hard work this is
also a video I'm not going to uh play the video right now but something for um for you to take a look at um that you have access to this video to this uh Google Slides uh it's just a short little video and sometimes we learn so much from our smallest of Learners so we have our three-year-olds
and four-year-olds from the prek center um did a small little video on promoting respect uh for all of our kids so big shout out to them and as we close out uh Black History Month um do want to make sure that we shout out and and celebrate the
importance of um of all of our uh black members of our current community and communities across across the country uh that have served and continue to serve um you know um you know making uh making the world a better place so uh as the
month has gone on our students have engaged in in work aligned with black history month and celebrating um our key important figures uh this month as we get into next month we'll share some of some of the work that our children have been exposed to and engaged in during
this time uh um upcoming events um we had a virtual parent event last night for mathematics I do encourage you um if you haven't been able to be part of this to be part of these events uh that we that we talk about so last night was around math talk and making sure that
we're having discussions in mathematics that event was uh recorded and is accessible along with the vast majority of our events are recorded um and you'll see on our d25 NC events page um all of the things that we've done this year are
accessible to our families so whether it's for mathematics or I ready um the second I ready one was not able to be recorded just you know at the request of I ready themselves um but we had special education series that was recorded along with the cadians for any of our families
that have children in kindergarten through second grade really great resources for you to tap into it shares a little bit about uh the diagnostic assessments that our kids take three times a year what they are assess what our children are assessed on and more importantly things for you as a parent
that you can think about and use to support your children at home uh so I encourage you guys if you if you're not familiar with the events page on our district site get familiar with it great great resource for uh families in your community um to tap
into uh upcoming event we have a district 25 family Civics comic book night uh this is going to be held on Wednesday March 12 from 6:00 to 7:30 um at JHS 1994 uh real goal of this is to really promote uh democracy Civic
engagement and social justice um kids will have an opportunity to receive some free comic books um engage in comic book exploration have some interactive activities just a really nice time to be able to come out with your children to to experience some fun around this space
of civics um which where we are really pushing across our district Community uh District 25 well day this is going to be held on March uh 15th uh we have a series of vendors that are going to be participating be series of fun activities uh promoting Wellness
promoting movement and mindfulness uh there'll be space for Community Resources including those that um that may be need need resources in the space of uh Mental Health Resources there'll be um Psychotherapy uh group there there will be um a series of Professional
Resources through nycfc the US Tennis Association um Major League Baseball and the New York and the New York Mets um New York City lacks whole series of of um Community groups that will be supporting this event to really promote
uh health and wellness including um um School uh our New York City School food and nutrition they'll be there to share a little bit about the the types of foods that are accessible to our kids um and also opportunity for you to go snack on some of those some of those resources
as as well um during that day so I encourage you to to if you're willing register for the event um we'd love to see you there and uh present and supporting um not only the event but uh getting some valuable information and resources for uh for
your children math family night we have one coming up on Thursday March 27th uh from 5:45 to 7:45 this will be held at JHS 189 um yes that is our Middle School but this is open up to All Families across
grades um as the resources accessible will be available for children across grades it's just being hosted at a middle school so it's available for everyone uh the last session that we had we had over 200 families join um the events were great there will be Refreshments there um there'll be free
giveaways uh just a really nice opportunity to do some math work with your children um as we're really seeking to make sure that our CH our kids uh come uh really really great problem solvers and math thinkers so um great
opportunity and I hope to see um see you a see you there and and join in the fun uh lastly in terms of announcements summer Rising um is uh is going to be continued this uh this summer uh
application window opens on Tuesday March 4th and closes on March 28th um the summarising window for children in K through 5 goes from July 2nd through August 15th it's a program that's Monday through Friday uh from 8:
to 6:00 p.m. um and grade 6 to 8 is July 2nd through the 8th Monday through Friday Also 8 to 6 now while registration does not mean necessar application doesn't necessarily Grant you access to the program I encourage all of our families if you're interested
to put in that application so that you get are given an opportunity to get a seat um so you more will follow on that as we get closer to the summer uh but we wanted to make sure that we gave our families a heads up that this program is coming uh coming soon and um to raise
the awareness um that the application window is from the beginning of March to the end of March so just being mindful of of that so also all of our schools um and for our members here you are likely also
members of your school leadership team um and then you your own meetings at your own buildings uh it's really important that you're talking about where are you right now in terms of the progress that you're looking to make against your goals that were set at the beginning of the year so um if you
haven't experienced a meeting with me before at the beginning of the year middle of the year and end of year I'm always going to share with you the current state of progress across the district um in relation to the goals that we've set so as a district Community we've been working really hard
on using what we referred to as decodable text decodable text is really to help our kids um learn how to sound out the sound out words that are taught within our foundations program but actually have an opportunity to apply it
in text um so across our classrooms in our early childhood grades in particular we're really emphasizing this work uh this year and hoping that we see improved outcomes by the end of the school year um for our targeted subgroups it was the intent to improve
by 5% for all students but then our targeted subgroups by 10% uh for each of our Learners now what we have seen um is very similar data to where we were last year for the for the majority of our subgroups um when we're when we're
talking about year-over-year aadience performance so we're about 57% of our kids by midye that are currently on or above grade level uh we have still a ton of work that we need to do as a district Community to improve upon this as the year goes on um for our Hispanic
Learners again relatively close to where we were last year at this time for our black Learners we're up about 3% from where we were um last year at this time and uh our L Learners around relatively close to where we were at this point
last year and our students with IEPs have improved by around 7 and a half% from where we were at this time last year uh so we're making progress with with some of our groups groups still more work that needs to be done across each of our subgroups as a um as a
district um our second priority this one is still underway our students are taking um a second uh survey around um social emotional learning one of the particular bullets that we have questions that we include in there is around student to- student relationships
uh making sure that our kids are in that space of respecting one another what we did find in last year's survey the beginning of this year's survey is that uh and more so in our middle schools is that uh our children are saying that and not this is not all but we had about 20%
of our kids feel like there is not that mutual respect for each other across the school um so our goal was that you know our children engage in action projects that are supportive of improving relationships and they are in the process of continuing that work right
now um and um and we're we're looking forward to seeing that progress moving forward so this is the data from the fall assessment we'll have another round of this which I'll share with you in March um of um uh excuse me in our next meeting in March so that you can see a
little bit about of an update on that moving forward for our um priority three this is also around explicit instruction and how are we improving outcomes for children across grades but primarily focused on children in grades 3 through
8 and where we are right right now for our children in grades 3 to 8 we did see an improvement from where we were year-over-year uh for all students of about 2% um we were hoping to be at least by two and a half% and 5% over the course of the year um at this point for
all students according to I 3.67% for our Hispanic Learners a little over 3% for our black Learners 1% for our enl Learners and 3 and a qu% for our students with disabilities um and these are subgroups that we identified as a
DLT um based on progress from the previous year so even though we've made progress we know that there's still tremendous amount of work that we need to do and that's what we're going to continue to to to focus on as the year comes to a close uh this school year priority four is around mathematics
um goal here again to improve outcomes for our Learners real focus on math routines uh the use of the three reads protocol um inside of our classrooms and math discour which is what our training was last night for our families um similar type of scenario here we have
seen some progress for our Learners about 2% for our all student subgroup uh almost three and a half% for our Hispanic subgroup 2.4% for our black learners 3.65% for our for our L Learners and um
lastly 3.37% for our students with IEPs um one also note is important for you to all know is that our eth graders many of our eighth graders do not take I ready because they're preparing for the algebra regions so we have over 1300 children that are taking the algebra
regions this year um and one of the key key um areas for us to just attend to that we attend to is children that are performing in that high high average range um are typically children that are performing in that 80 to 85 and above range on the regions which is where we
want our students to perform this is way above where we were last year at this time uh we know that we still have room to grow with this last 20% of children that are currently falling outside of that space which is what our what our teachers are working on uh with them on
a daily basis but we have seen some uh some progress for our Learners year-over-year this is a different group of kids than from last year but our performance is higher than what they were um at this point last year which is a good sign again more work to do in
that front um this is basically a breakdown and you can always look at this on your own of where we were with all subgroups um across each assessment uh those are all the numbers that I just went through with you um and lastly there are two things one is around making sure that
our parents receive progress what all family should have received from me over the past uh two weeks were messages about making sure that everyone knows the I ready status of their children um because those that data is out and available and all of our parents should know what that what that looks like and
if families have not heard from that yet we're asking that all of you reach out to your schools make sure that if you didn't receive the report that you're asking um uh for that information so that you can have those discussions with your with your child's uh teacher but aside from that we're asking all of our
schools to make sure that they're connecting with our families on a routine basis around the progress of their children um so that um the the more that you're aware as parents the more likely our children are going to do well inside of our classrooms so that's something that we are focused on uh we
have seen consistent information from our families we have about 15% of families that indicate that they can do more receive more feedback so we're going to continue to work on that um as a district Community including me sending out routine messages to our parents reminding them of the importance
of connecting with our teachers on the progress of their children and lastly and this one is super important because there is a tremendous relationship between the progress of our kids and the uh and the attendance rates so when we were in
November our attendance rates were well above 95% we are second highest in the city so our attendance is good comparatively speaking to the rest of the city but our chronic absenteeism rates are still high and what we do know is when our children are not in school
there is less likely uh less likelihood that they're going to be able to keep up with the work so we're going to continue to send out reminders from the the district level all of our schools have teams connecting with families and this one gets hard at times because winter time often results in children getting
the flu or some kind of an illness so it does impact that but on any other time we want to make sure that our kids are in school um so we're going to continue to focus on this the goal was that we improveed this by 4% in November we were surpassing our benchmarks uh but right
now we are right back to where we were um so we do need to continue to to emphasize the importance of being in school on a daily basis with our families um and support in any way that we can if there is a reason for that support um meaning if it goes beyond
just being ill or um you know um there are medical reasons um you know those are just what they are but anything else we will will certainly continue to connect with our families to provide support and that concludes um my report
for you uh this evening and welcome any uh any questions that you may have thank you Dr Mike for your report yeah you're welcome you're welcome thank you Dr Mike does anyone uh
have any questions okay Jenny shall we move on yes thank you do you want to introduce the next guest speaker yes can you uh share your screen maybe put the slides up thank you so much um hold
on okay uh next I'd like to introduce uh Robin Williams from the office of language exess that's OA uh Mr Williams yes thank you Mr Mitchell thank you let me share my
screen you able to see my screen yes okay good evening everyone my name is name is Robert Williams I am the external Outreach specialist at the office of language access in this
PowerPoint I'm going to demonstrate it essentially it mimics exactly how our parent facing web page is so um is in the exact same order you'll be able to find where you can request
interpretation or have some documents translated in your preferred language so on on the agenda today we're going to talk about the NYC Public Schools background our commitment to nycps families with schools.nyc.gov hello web
page raising awareness in our communities and any questions so there are over 1 million students and over 1600 plus schools that speak over 180
languages approximately 40% of the New York City Public School households speak a language other than English at home and the nycps top covered languages besides English are Arabic bangler
Cantonese French Haitian Creo Korean Mandarin Russian Spanish and eru written translations are also available in both traditional and simplified Chinese the office of language access is
dedicated to supporting both new City Public Schools staff and families by providing the resources necessary for effective communication and languages other than English so here's a little snapshot of the top 10 preferred
languages in District 25 besides our cover languages you want to keep in mind you have a large population of ger hope I'm pronouncing that correctly and and handy so you want to keep in mind where we're when we're
actually having interpreters for our other top 10 languages that you know we include these families as well so there are over 20,000 parents that
prefer communication and their preferred um language and over 20,000 parents that prefer written documents in their prefer language so Olaf supports new city public schools with translation and
interpretation Services for Families whose preferred language is other than English so our translation team which is our largest um department they provide written translation services in the top 10 n English languages and works in
close collaboration with our contractor vendor to extend services for languages beyond the capacity of our internal resources our interpretation team works with our contracted interpretation vendors to ensure schools receive
services for in-person virtual and over the phone for parent engagements and our Outreach and data integration team focused on promoting Equitable language access services to schools and empowering New City Public Schools parents to understand and
advocate for their language access rights um we also collaborate with Advocates to identify needs and address language barriers and our everchanging communities we engage parent leaders to enhance the message of language access
to our communities we pursue innovative ways to engage with and receive feedback from families such as online portals emails rooc calls texts direct mailers we leverage technology to
continuously enhance the interpretation experience for families such as virtual meetings we ensure translation quality such as professional translation tools we keep a post of Citywide parent language data and translation
interpretation service outputs so the nycps free language Services include once again the nycps free language Services include interpretation for all types of meetings and interactions with New York City
public school staff translation of General documents into the nycps top covered languages and some examples of that may include apparent newsletter or event Flyers translation of individualized
documents into a parents preferred language upon request and some exam some examples of that will include like an i AP which is a individualized educational programs Section 504 plan which is a medical accommodation let's say if your
child has test anxiety um you go to the school ask the school for the 504 form take that form to your primary doctor if your primary doctor deems that your child does have anxiety they'll fill it out you being
not formed back to the school and now your your child may be eligible for extra time on their test and we also translate foreign transcripts in any language not just the
top 10 covered languages in any language so when accessing the schools.nyc.gov web page you'll notice that on the top right there'll be a Google drop down just select what language that you prefer and then the
website will translate into that language but please note automatic translations are not intended to replace human translators and are provided as a service to users of the website some
content such as images videos animations Etc may not be translated due to the limitations of the translation software so here's a brief um it's a short little video it explains everything else on the website once you go to the website the first
thing you're gonna see is this little video um I'm not going to play it right now but once you play it you're able to also actually um do the close caption and whichever language that you
prefer and you'll notice that um at the top right corner is also the Google dropdown you can select what language this um video is also available in the covered languages
below so right below the video the first tab will read helpful resources here you may print and cut out the ISE card and 10 languages to request language assistance Services when communicating with the New York City public school
staff um language access for nycps families brochure advises families of the availability of language assisted Services you may also request one at your school on this um tab also in this drop down tab you also find health forms and
notices enrollment forms Etc but let's say you wanted to learn more about the language access for nycps families brochure you would click on that link and this is how the brochure looks
you'll notice that the the bottom there's a little cutout portion whichever your preferred language is you would just cut out that portion bring that back to your school and now your school must provide Communication in that preferred
language also if one of your um if a preferred language is not listed here we have a blank BL a blank one that says I speak and then you can just write in what your preferred language is and your school still must provide you Communication in that
language so the very next tab underneath that would read request language Services families May complete the translation and interpretation service request form to request language Services the New York City Public Schools office of language access will forward your request to to the
appropriate school office or committee on special education the translation interpretation service request form is a available in the following languages but please note language assistant Services may vary depending on the type of school the
student attends families can also call 311 to make a request for language assistant Services over the phone interpretation is available in over 200 languages let's say you want to click on the translation and interpretation service request
form on the left is how the form looks it's a little snapshot of it but but before you come to this website and fill out the form please contact your school first um your school is your direct
support and helping you with any communication or translation documents let's say if you go to the school and you know because we we have staff that um resign or um retire so it may be a new staff there and maybe they're not
aware of how to support you then you can come here let fill out the form um you may request the services via the translation interpretation form this form is available in the top covered languages so what happens
is any parent form that that is filled out I get a notification that comes directly to my inbox it's not staying in our office inbox it comes to my um personal inbox and the process is
if I receive a notification I would contact the uh principal the parent coordinator and whoever the language access coordinator is of that school um we train staff to be language access coord is in school so
they should be able to help you and provide any support you need but in the event that someone is not there I'll just fold that to the principal you know let them know hey um um this parent requested these services and they
said that they were unable to get them can you please contact this parent and make sure that this parent received these services and they must complete or reach out to the parent within five to seven business days so that I can close
it on my end if not then I have to escalated higher to the superintendent but so far I have not um had any schools that have not reached out to the parent to settle the matter so that's
good we also provided a uh QR code so any parents want to take their phones out and scan a QR code it it'll take them directly to that form the very next tab underneath that will read connect with Ola so if you or
someone you know needs help receiving information or communicating with a school staff member and a language other than English please tell your school's principal or parent coordinator or you can call 311 or you can visit our contact Ola
form let's say you want to fill out our contact Ola form you would click on that on the left is how is a snapshot how the form looks and it's pretty much the same process I contact the principal um
parent coordinator the language access coordinator of that school this form is also available in the top 10 um languages then we also have a QR code for parents mobile the next tab will read share your
experience with the New York City public school language access services so you may also provide feedback on the on the NYC Public Schools language Services by completing our translation and interpretation feedback survey or you
can do so by calling 31 want but let's say you wanted to click on our translation interpretation feedback survey form you click on that on the left is a snapshot on how the form looks and it's the exact same process the form
is available in 10 languages we also provide a QR code now we want to hear the good and bad not just what schools are not provided to parents who want to hear some of the good that schools are provides um to parents so that we can
actually reach out to them and ask them you know some points so that we can share with other schools you know we you know it it takes a village you know to to to support our community so we want to hear the good and bad so the very next time we read sign
language interpretation Services there's a um I know I've gotten a lot of questions and and emails about sign language interpretation services this office is a different office it does not come out of our office so to contact um
if you need any sign language interpre interpreting Services you will email oslis schools.nyc.gov and they will help you with um their process that this is a separate office the very next tab will be have
difficulties obtaining language assistant Services if you are you can learn how to you click on the get help or you can click on the follow complaint if you click on follow complaint this complaint is a formal complaint it goes
directly to the district it doesn't come to our office it goes directly to the district excuse me now we going to talk about raising awareness in our communities we have done advertisement in schools grocery stores laundry mats
nail hair and barber salons pharmacies and what's not on here is that we have done some advertisement in the MTA um train stations and on the MTA buses we have done direct parent Outreach through rooc calls emails text
messages postcards like the one on the right if you have not received one or any of them we ask that families please go to their school um speak to I'm assuming is the school secretary and make sure that your information is
updated you know as we know we change phone numbers or we change addresses because we pull from the same data that schools enter the information in so please make sure all your information is updated so that you can receive these um parent
Outreach so are there any questions not uh not a question as much uh as a thank you uh for uh sharing uh the slides and all the information uh what I'd like to point out to the other
parents and everyone uh who will see this because it is being recorded is um I think that this is a a direct uh reflection of the New York City um being Innovative because what we're doing here
is we're incorporating AI into how we reach out to the families and how and and how not maybe not as much we but they as in New York are reaching out to support the families um you know now I
can find if you know in any language how to get help for my my child which is a very good thing so um thank you again Mr Williams for sharing this I think that this is very important and even if the parents directly can't use this I think
that if we know someone in our in our uh Community who has uh maybe a language barrier this would be great to share um because uh you know I think that this is a very good uh resource that um you know is being
provided to us at no cost right so um you know if if you're not in attendance now but you see this later please go on and share this uh information with as many people that you can so that we can keep our community uh thriving where our children
are concerned yes and and I'm available to come um I do uh presentations tabling resources um for for for any school fairs I can table you know give out um
handouts for for families as well regarding this information as well yes thank you so much Mr Williams I know we have scheduled a few more meetings for you to come and join us so thank you so much for your time and your presentation this is great you know information and great resources you're
welcome thank you for having me thank you thank you yes let me um share my screen again as Mitchell you want to introduce the next guest yes uh next I'd like to introduce Ryan me he is the founder of
turboo uh I'd like everyone to pay close attention to this young man if you can even share his story with your children maybe we can uh use him as an example for our next Generation Ryan if you will yeah thank you for the introduction
Chris um so thank you guys for having me on the call my name is Ryan I'm a current sophomore student at Brown University um originally from the Ryan New York area so just outside New York City and about a year ago I launched this kind of passion project of mine to
create this social emotional learning device um designed to reduce anxiety in kids um through addressing physiological points of contact so what it means by that is I have a turboo with me um and it'll make more sense as I
start to describe what exactly it is so what you might be seeing on your screen might look like an everyday stuffed animal but that's by Design so it's all has some hidden goodies inside of it that are clinically proven to reduce anxiety and promote feelings of wellness and calmness so the first is its weight
it weighs about 5 lbs that weight would go on your child's um lap as we're doing schoolwork in a classroom or if they're at home um on their chest as a way to just relax reorient refocus um especially if they have high fits of anxiety over could be virtually anything
um you have a fidget tail with some porous beads inside for a different type of um fidget you have a half moon velcro piece here for different type of tack pile sents and each ear has these hidden zippered Pockets which might be hard to see on Zoom but they have hidden
zippered pockets for inserts like a gel pack so you can change the temperature of it heat it cool it put in the ear um if not it's another fun squishy tactile device and the other year takes in pure grade lavender essential oil as aroma theapy so you put a couple drops of this bottle on the pad you stick the pad in
the ear and the whole device emits that kind of common Aroma and each turo comes standard with an intro story book called meat turboo as a fun way to kind of bring the kids into to turboo land and and a feelings of anxiety free um and
that's kind of what turboo is so um some of you might be asking well why what is this how is this relevant or why is this 19-year-old on this Zoom talking to me right now so um to answer all those questions um trobo started as a pure kind of passion project of mine um like
I said about a year ago it's it comes from my experience in seventh grade where um back when I was in seventh grade not too many years ago I had a lot of friends really struggle with mental health to the point of needing self harm intervention and these are kids who today are are at other IV League schools
and very high Achievers but um couldn't really manage their stress or anxiety even at as early as seventh grade and I'm just kind of a student seeing my friends get pulled out of school and need to see um intervention and extra help outside um for self harm
intervention it really just kind of stuck with me all these years and just um why is this happening how can it be prevented um and how can I help make kids um fewer kids turn out like my friends did so um this is kind of the idea behind turboo is creating a
foundational tool to give to any kid of all age um college kids even use it but um in New York City specifically it's in I think it's up to about 180 um elementary and middle schools where every single classroom and support office will have a turboo as a way for
um students to have that Moment of clarity while they're doing while they're learning that new uh math problem or reading that new word and reading comprehension for learning anxiety or if they're's having a really rough day and something happened to them um coming to school that they just need a few minutes to reorient so they're
able to become productive members of the classroom and not let what's going on outside of school um hinder their ability to learn and grow so um before I get a little more into it I think my understanding that this is a title one kind of parents meeting and there might be some extra funding in the budgets for
budgets Clos in you might be thinking how can I get use this to to be the most effective and get the most out of it for my community and and kids um I wonder is there someone in here from ps79 I might be cold calling them but if
they're in attendance maybe not okay well ps79 is a title one school in District 25 your District um who was at the start um one of the first schools to implement turboo into all their classroom offices they use Title One funding to bring it to outside service
providers they ended up ordering about 60 of these turbo BOS to go throughout their community and since then they have never looked back I still get emails of positive feedback from the principal saying what a game changer it was for their students how families are emailing
him trying to find it for their kids at home as it's a way to relax before bed or in the morning reorient and be ready to go for school and really the feedback has just been phenomenal and that's just one example of like I said over 180 schools who who really every day has
been changed by turboo as a physical support device so the purpose of me kind of coming on to this call now is to present to Robo as a resource to your communities um as well as an option that has a lot of different benefits from immediately helping to reduce anxiety in
kids to improving test scores um in a school setting and even just if there are housing and stable or someone might be at at a in a place where they aren't quite comfortable with their own room or they sleep they have a physical tool that they can use to orient themselves
in a space and help make the space its own um and then what goes off of that is this kind of a few of these different types of large seal kind of books for lessons this one happens to be a sleepover as I mentioned um for those students in housy and stable communities
where it really walks through a lot of different lessons in a fun kind of turboo story world where kids can really start to learn how to make their home feel like their home and come to school ready to learn and not be inhibited by any of their kind of outside um stresses or factors that might otherwise have
been changing their perspective on coming to school and ready to learn so um one thing I'll mention is if you if you like the idea you think it might be worth sharing or you might be want to talking to your principal see how they think whatever it might be on your next steps um there is an online store where
any individual turbos could be purchased um called ww . turbo. um additionally turboo is a soul Source vendor with the doe so if it is something through a purchase order through the school I'm not quite sure how title one specific funding works but
we can virtually accept any form of payment in a way that would bring turoo um to fruition so um how the pricing works if you're thinking about and thinking about any money left over budgeting um you have this dog here which is the 5B velboa version you get
your with every trobo comes standard your dog your inserts like your aroma therapy your gel pack as well as this intro story book meet to Robo along with a best use cases sheet which is like a one-page piece of paper explain how to get the most out of it and for each of
those bundles is $85 for that bundle um and then if you are looking to give dogs out to individual families or want to see a stretch your dollars as far as they can go there's also a turboo mini available which is about half the size
of the larger one um doesn't have the gel pack has a few different tactile features of the fabric um it does still have that aroma therapy pouch here but this is priced at $40 each if this is something that might be able um to stretch farther with the budgets but um
the fan favorites are certainly these bigger guys just than how it really gives that weighted blanket feel you really feel that reduction of weight on the heart which lowers and promotes e of calmness so um definitely the the the the starting model here but I'm really
up to you guys on what works best for you so happy to answer any questions or or stop there or continue whatever whatever is helpful does anyone have any questions for Ryan I do good evening everyone it's Crystal Gonzalez um I would like to know
do you do presentations at school I think this is an awesome idea um and I think it's something that we may be interested in yeah absolutely so I'm happy to connect with a principal um through email or anything like that and then usually for a one-off school I
would do like a zoom presentation where I showcase the dog the data behind its success um as well as walk through how to get the most out of it across different grade levels uh most apart from that I try to get as many principal meetings as possible where I would come to a district and present to a bunch of
principles funny enough um yesterday I was actually in Queens at district 28 for their principal's meeting and after the meeting every single School ended up purchasing turboo for their classrooms and offices so it has definitely been highly successful within a school setting um so it would be more than
happy to be connected with any principal or um any way you think about kind of presenting it as a resource I'd be happy to give a quick um Zoom meeting individually on different schools who might be interested thank you yeah and Ryan we we be uh creating
some opportunity for you to meet and get in front of all of our principles here in District 25 as well okay okay yeah know I really appreciate that thank you so much um we also have invited you to attend our PC meeting our parent coordinator meeting and the president's council meeting so we will see you
around and I know you've been working with a lot of districts District 26 is one of them where they told me about you so I'm I'm happy I got introduced to you and I know the 1% set spending plan has been submitted into the plan but if they have any left over money turboo would be
the choice or for any future you know spending plans so I will spread your you know spread okay fantastic thank you so much Jenny I really appreciate that all right well thank you guys so much thank you so much for being here we'll keep in touch yep all right have a
good one let me share my screen again Mr Mitchell if you wna introduce all our Title One schools thank you yes I'd like that uh so title one uh d25 that's
District 25 Title One schools uh for 24 and 25 school year in total there are 36 schools um in our District 26 of which
is Title One um two of them are prek centers um they are uh here in front of you for the uh people maybe who cannot see it I'll I can read them to you okay um so that's
q20 21 22 23 24 25 29 32 107 120 129 154 16364 165 185
189 194 200 2011 24 219 237 that's my school 242 244 250 and 379 uh with that I can move a little forward
word Jenny yep so I'm going to talk about C election update so the C election deadline has been extended to February 27 which is tomorrow if you are still hesitating or you thinking about it or you interested
or you know someone who would be a great fit please encourage them to apply by tomorrow tomorrow will be the last day to apply for the C election the timeline the timeline for C election will be you know um voting running I
mean until tomorrow the next is a cc candidate Forum the so CEC candidate Forum will be held at the next president's council meeting on March 17 it's a two-hour meeting where applicants will introduce themselves and answer uh questions
prepared by the president's Council this forum is important for families to meet the candidates before casting their votes at as as the person running for the CEC will be the voice of your child School District if they get selected after that will be the
voting so there are over 1,000 C seats available Citywide as of today we have 1,187 applicants Citywide applied uh with 302 from Queens and 30 applicants from District 25 this number has doubled
in the past two weeks but we're still pushing for more applicants the next chart is uh showing the CC data report broken down from high schools I'm just going to leave it on for a few seconds so you guys can have a
kind a review this data is broken down by schools and I apologize if the picture is a little bit blurry but District Five District 25 have 30 applicants as of today so we do compete with District 26 a lot and I can see
that we are one applicants higher than District 26 um this is the data report from two years ago this is data who shows how many people voted so during the voting period we're going to encourage as many
parents to vote as possible since this is also important to get the right candidates um this is the number from two years ago as we can see only 1,559 parents voted two years ago for the CC
[Music] um the CEC voting uh sorry let me go back the C voting will take place from April 25th to May 13 the voting numbers for two years ago is shown here if you are not running for a c seat another way
to support the C is by voting for the candidates the only way to vote or to run is by using the Nexa so Nexa is the only platform used for the CC uh campaign so please make sure you have access to your Nexa account when the voting period
opens on April 25th uh NYC school surveys the NYC school survey is sent home every year around this time for all families in grades 3K to 12 the teachers and staff and students in grade 6 to 12
the survey helps School leaders understand what members of the school Community thinks about their school allowing them to make improvements so there's three ways to uh submit the school survey the first is to uh use the prepaid envelope that it comes with the survey you can use that one it's already
prepaid so you just submit your survey and put it in the mailbox the second way is by using your NYC schools account the next account to submit your school survey and the third way is to use the online um tool is NYC schools. NYC
school survey.org to submit your survey but in that on that link you will have to use your um doe the students ID number the oses number when you use the online platform and you will have to remember to add a lowercase app in front
of your students ID number um next is um so you know Dr Mike also mentioned a lot of these uh District 25 uh events that we hold um on a monthly basis last night we have an event about math parent Workshop uh Mrs
Eaton our math instructional lead she shared multiple ways on how to make math fun at home so if you you can subscribe to this newsletter our district newsletter to get updates about more upcoming events via this website B25
NC next c meeting is Wednesday March 5th if you are interested in running for the C and you would like to learn about more about C easy the best way to learn is to watch the candidates or the um the the members in action you can join in person
U at Lyon Place or you can listen in Via a hybrid link the link can also be found on our d25 website next president's council meeting is March 17 this meeting will be a two hours meeting with the CEC candidate Forum the candidate will be introducing
themselves and this is the best way to meet all the candidates on this meeting next theack meeting is scheduled for next month is March 27th so we've been alternating between Thursdays and Wednesdays to make you know everyone available to hopefully the schedule will
be um for for everyone to be joining as as many as possible the next one would be March uh 27 at 6 o'clock the time is been kept the same time and these are our
um um vendors doe vendors if anyone were interested I just you know decided to keep them on every presentation PowerPoint in in case you are interested and want to go back to see which you know theal event we can um utilize for
our future 1% spend satisy spending next meeting is March 7 27 that's it from my end does anyone have any questions okay thank you all thank you Jenny um for putting this all together again
excuse me thank you for all of our presenters um Dr dantona Mr Williams um Ryan thank you again um if that's all thank you all have a great night
good night thank you good night everyone attending the meeting we'll see you next morning by everyone thank you Janny thank you Mr Mitchell have a great night thank you Dr Tona see you tomorrow