going to get started. Um, hope you're all doing well. Hard to believe, guys, we are in the the middle of August. It's crazy. We're going to be right in the mix of the start of the new school year before we know it. Uh, so, welcome. Um,
I'm just a a day removed from from vacation and I feel like I'm still swaying like I was on the cruise, which is very weird sensation. Um, but I feel like I'm still on in some ways. I'm sitting in the seat and I feel like my head is rocking back and forth which is
um a very weird feeling to say the least. Um but going to go through a few things with us today. Gonna just share our agenda. Oh, take out the trash. I don't want to take out the trash. Um
just uh greetings. Quick couple of set of updates and reminders. Um, I do want to go over our DC goals, particularly our the the latest data that uh that did come out from New York State assessments. I want to be able to share where we're currently uh what our current performance levels are. Uh
celebrate some of those successes. Um we'll do that more in September. Uh as I get to peel peel the the data apart a little bit more than what I was already able to do. Uh this came out the day that I was ready to go. So, um, you know, some of it still needs to be, you
know, peeled apart a little bit more, but I'm going to give you guys a little bit of context as to where we performed relative to our goals, uh, last year, give us a little bit added perspective, and then the approach that, um, I'd like to take moving into 2526,
talk very briefly around cell phone policy, and then end on wellness, kindness, community. Um, Gus is not going to be here today. Uh so there will not be a report from him. Um I will talk a little bit about our C process that
we're going through right now. Um high school superintendent report. I do see Eduardo is here so I'm sure he will have some things to share. And then Eden, you will be the one and only to gets to share a little bit about uh from other constituencies as you are the only
representative here um to do that. So um I'm going to quickly chat with you guys about where we're at. Just reminders back to school event. Uh just in the event that some of you did not know, Eden, I know you are aware of this, Eduardo, I don't know if you are, uh but
council member is um hosting a uh back to school block party uh that will be happening on August 29th. Um myself and several of our team members will be there um to to support the the the opening of of school and getting
ourselves back into the swing of things. and we will have uh some books to give away during uh that session. So, always excited to begin the school year certainly with our new with our elected officials um and this coming event where we will certainly be there to support
that. Uh there are a couple of others that were just recent additions to to the calendar. I know Kappa always does their kickoff event. Um you won't see that on on the slide deck, but Kappa will be hosting an event on September 6th. Um it is a Saturday at 1:00. they
hosted at Flushing uh Flushing Library. Um so I'll be there for that too. I typically do a state of the state of the district type of scenario for for them every year and I will do that again um at the library just to make sure everyone is aware of where we're going
in the uh 2526 school year. Uh back to school is Thursday, September 4th. Uh we do have a couple of days that are uh that we'll be celebrating for uh Jewish holidays. Russashana is September 23rd and 24th. Uh we do have the school
calendar here for your uh review. Um enrollment processes. This is really not so much things that you're going to really need to know, but I'd like to stay consistent with what we talked about at CEC. Um but for enrollment purposes, you know, schools will that
are that are receiving zone children will always have access to them. So, we encourage our families to go right to their schools uh if they do know what zone their child belongs to. Uh if not, if they're unsure, they can always connect with the family welcome center uh and they can pro provide them with
that guidance or certainly touching base with us at the district office uh to let them know where they need to to enroll. um welcome centers will be open um for our families certainly uh for enrollment assistance public schools 9
through 12 uh that are other than the zone uh if they need help with transferring they can certainly contact the family welcome centers and you know they've done a really good job certainly here at at Lynen uh Lynen Place to support our kids across district 25. So all of that is there for you guys. um
connection before content. Guys, this is something that um Eduardo for you and I'm not sure what what it is that you guys do with the high schools, but um something that we're encouraging this whole notion of connection before content. We're not going to do it today just because it's only the couple of us.
We did do this one with our CEC always kind of supports a little bit of fun. Um and just connection with with one another. um the idea of in this particular case reflecting through music. Uh what would a song be that
would kind of reflect your summer? Uh just as a way to kind of one get an idea of who uh type of music that we actually listen to. Um your reflection around how your summer was and just kind of building relationships. I think it's so important for us as as schools to be
able to do that. Uh I know Eden, you shared one. What was the one that you shared? I said had a bad day because I had just had flooding and some other stuff and now my daughter just had surgery. So I would still stick with that song. Oh my goodness. So the the bad day is
still is still surrounding a week later. Well, bring in that that sunshine. We got a walking on sunshine. That has to be the one that that follows that had a bad day. Um, but at any rate, Eduardo, it's something that we are we are looking to
push every month. We'll be doing a little connection before content. We're going to be asking our schools to make sure that they layer this in with their staff um just to kind of build that space of relationships across our schools. Cell cell phone policy, you guys know,
we talked about this last time, all of our schools um have been submitting their cell phone policy for me to review. um they're getting feedback from me and then we'll have one that they can bring back to their SLTs for SLT review and approval. Uh but we are asking that
they get the school year started right away with this so that there is not this um scenario where kids get accustomed to a routine where they bring in those phones and then they the whole process of oh well I've been able to do this the first couple of weeks of school now you're telling me I can't. So we want to
make sure we get ahead of it um as much as we possibly can. Uh there will be some bumps. There's no doubt there'll be some bumps at the beginning of the year with the cell phone policy. Um some kids that will certainly test the cell phone policy. Um this is not a um a scenario
where we're looking to create suspensions for children. That's one thing I do want to make sure that I am very clear on. This is not I brought in my phone, I made a mistake, and you're suspended. That's not what we're looking to do here. Um we do want to create really strong routines with our kids so that they know what the policies and
expectations are. Um but all schools are going through this. This is not something that Department of Education uh ourselves are saying is a requirement just from us. This is a state law. Um and we're going to work really hard to make sure that we're complying with that law across our schools. So all buildings
are creating a policy um that are aligned with city expectations uh and certainly district expectations. So, um, more to follow on this, but just so that everyone knows, this is something that every school is doing. Uh, there will be no school that's an exception, although
there are exceptions to the process, meaning if children have medical needs, uh, there is every school inside of their plan does need to include a person, a point person, um, that will be be in the building to determine whether
or not uh, an exception should be granted. Um, so that does exist, that opportunity exists within uh within a plan. So parents can have a point person to contact in the event that they have a medical need of some sort that needs to
be reviewed. So just so you know, uh that is on the horizon. Celebrating our successes, big shout out to our building leaders, our teachers, um all of our support staff. We did have a very productive year. Um we have made
uh a bunch of progress from 24 20 uh 23 24 to 2425. Still certainly a tremendous amount of work to do and I know all of our schools go directly to all the work that they need to do next. Um but it's important that we celebrate our successes. There's
nothing new in regards to priority one. Priority one was K to2. So there's not a state assessment um that's aligned with that. So all of that data remains. Uh we did make some progress with our subgroups in uh priority one. We're going to continue our work in that area.
But what I did want to highlight for you was uh priority 3 and this is grades 3 through 8. Overall we made a 5.7% change from year overyear in ELA. That's for all students. Um, but you'll see here I have
in parentheses, uh, the parenthesis is our district, uh, meaning just our schools, the ones that I supervise. That was a little bit higher than what the overall district average was, which would have put us a little bit over 6% uh, improvement overall as a district
community. Uh, which is I'm sorry, excuse me. Uh, which is, uh, a really, really important thing for us to celebrate. Um, and here's the the really really important part of what I want to share. Our subgroups grew by our Hispanic
subgroup grew by 9.3% this year. Um, our goal was 10%. So, we just came up just a little bit short of of that goal by about a half a percent when you include we were a little slightly higher for our district compared to the whole. Um, but
9.3% is um is really really great news for us that we've closed some of that achievement gap. Uh, for our black learners, we grew by 8.6% as a district. When you look at it, just our district schools, uh, it's just under
that 10% mark. So, we we were 9.6% um for our black learners, which is great. Our L's grew by 4.6. 6%. This is one you're going to hear me talk a lot about um because we do need to continue to build our work for our L's and our
students with IEPs grew by 7%. The reason why you don't have a district calculation here is because I do need to do a little bit more of a breakdown uh with our kids with IEPs when we do it from the one of the data uh polls that I have. It's not as accurate. So, I want
to make sure I give you the accurate accounting of that that I will do during our next uh next meeting. But for all intents and purposes, we we we did make um a good amount of progress uh relative to the to the city. I think the city
grew a little bit over 7%. We grew by about 6% as a district this uh this school year. In mathematics, we did see some progress here as well. Um, the city grew by a
little over 3%. Um, we grew by 1.7%. When you look at just our district, it's a bit higher than that. It's a little over 2%, just around 2.3%. We were just under 70%, 69.57 for our district schools. And when I say
our district schools, remember I don't supervise uh the 6 to 12s. Those are not necessarily under my purview, but they'll be included in the overarching performance of uh of the district community. Um, when you just talk about
the 34 schools that that I supervised, that's why I put it here in parenthesis. We're a little bit higher than that as a district. Um, for our Hispanic learners, we grew by 2.8%. For our black learners by 5.3%.
Uh, our L's 5.3%. and then our students with IEPs just 1%. Um so while we have seen some progress here, we do need know that we have to continue to grow and improve. Um I do like the idea that we are closing in on that 70%
um 70% mark. So no doubt that we are going to strive to to exceed that moving into the 2526 school year. And lastly, chronic absenteeism. You guys already know the statistics have
not changed. Uh but we do need to improve here. What you will see during the next um next SL uh DT meeting is a breakdown of the relationship between kids that were chronically out and their performance. I'm going to give you a little bit of a side by side of how kids
perform that were chronically absent compared to those that were not chronically out because it's important that our schools and our and our parents continue to recognize the relationship between those two. Um, so there's a lot more to follow here, but it it's important that we do know that we did
make some uh some really really important progress here. Really proud of our schools for growing by and almost just just under meeting our goals of uh five and 10. We did meet the five over 5% for the uh for the all student
subgroup. So we did meet there and we were just under performance rates for our black and Hispanic learners. Certainly more to grow for our students with IEPs, but 7% gain is important to recognize as well.
Anyone have any questions about that, Eden or Eduardo? I'm good. Okay. So, our goals, um, these are not new. Uh, you did see these during the last meetings. uh remain consistent with what
you're going to see here, but I did want to point out the things that we're going to be paying attention to going into 2526. Um I don't want to necessarily change too much uh moving into this year. I think our focus on explicit instruction
um has demonstrated some progress. Um when you see during the next during the next meeting, I'm going to do a breakdown also for you for grades 3 to 5 and grades 6 to 8. Our work in elementary schools has most definitely demonstrated progress. Um
some of our grades upwards of 15% improvement from last year to this year. Um which shows that we are on the right track. What we do need to continue to do now is build from where we were uh where we are in some of our elementary grades so that that progress continues all the
way through the eighth grade. Um, so I have no doubt if we continue to work through this lens of explicit instruction that we're going to see the progress that we're looking for for our kids. Now, with three things in mind, uh, and this is what I'm going to be pushing for all of our schools to
reflect on, and that's the knowledge of our of the standards that our kids are being assessed on, knowledge of our students, and then knowledge of resources to support what we've just learned. And a focus that we're going to have is something that we call this know
and show um you know within standards making sure that we're very clear within a standard what do our kids need to know and what do they need to show to demonstrate that they have proficiency in it. So it's going to be a routine that we're going to ask our schools to really work on with their teachers um so
that we're very very versed in the outcomes that should come from each standard. Knowledge of students. You guys all know that we have a very robust district data dashboard. Our schools have their own dashboards in addition to that um to that system, but we're really going to
be digging into in particular our L's and students with IEPs um to make sure that we're we're providing the the scaffolded supports necessary to provide access to grade level text. Um so there's going to be more to follow on
that as well, but we want to dig into the data that we have. What do we know about our children? So that the knowledge of resources we're building inside of that once we know what what our kids need, how do we look for those resources inside of
curriculum so that we're providing those strategic supports for our kids inside of the work that we do uh in particularly focused on our L's and our students with IEP. So our training this year is going to be around that focus. what do we know about our kids and then
how do we make sure that we're aligning the resources from curriculum to support our need the needs that our children have. So this is going to be a constant reminder for our schools. And the reason why I we landed here is because I wanted it to be very simple. Knowledge of
standards, that's something that that can connect with everyone. Knowledge of students, knowledge of resources. Those three things are are going to be kind of the backdrop of our our continued work on explicit instruction. So in order to make explicit instruction really really
strong, we need to make sure that we have we know the standards, we know our kids, and we know the resources that we have in front of us to support those things. Um, so I like the simplicity of it. Wonder what you guys think. Does that sound I mean it's very far more complex than than what it what I'm
making it sound, but the simplicity of those three things. Does that make sense? Eduardo, Headb Eden. Does that make sense? Yes. I couldn't get off mute. Yes. Sorry. Yeah. Um I just like the simplicity of
it and certainly I ask you guys to think about that too. Um as we go through the beginning of the year, this one's going to be real real quick run through because the we don't have a full team here today, but um this is going to be the mindset that I'd like to take us
through um given a full team set of feedback. Um, priority two, this one we went through, I'm not going to spend too much time on it, but similar type of mindset, right? Knowledge of students, knowledge of resources. The standards for SEAL also
need to be embedded in here. Um, it's going to be really around the the the castle practices of of what SEAL is really all about, the knowled uh self-management, self-awareness, all of those things. But again, using our district data dashboard, our school dashboard to strategically use the
resources that are part of the program and the ones that I'm going to be calling out this year, mind-up moments and conversation starters. I need our kids and our staff to be connected and that's where you're also going to see this connection before content also fit in. Um, so that we're in the space of
relationship building all the time. Um, the reality is I think things happen inside of our schools with kids. Um, you know, and having an eighth and a tenth grader, you see I see it all the time. Some of our kids do things because it it their own insecurities. This makes them
feel good when they can pick on someone else and um feel like they've done something, you know, and when when they happen to be one that others look at in a way that builds them up, they're going to keep doing it. Why? Because they don't know that they just hurt Eduardo's
feelings with what they just said. For them, it was just fun, right? It wasn't I I I didn't care that I was impacting Eduardo. I made fun of someone and therefore, look at all these other kids laughed and it made me feel good for making someone else feel bad, you know,
and that's because there was not that space of of a actual relationship that those kids had. Um, so I think it's important that we continue to grow this work and and you know, we're going to continue to monitor this as the year goes on. and our kids are the main entry
point for me in this space. So when we get that data back from our school survey, my ask for our schools is going to be to connect with our our student uh student governments. What do they see in it? How are they going to help improve it? Um and you know, we started that
last year. We only had a 2% change. Um but I do think that over time that will start improving as well. Okay. Um mathematics again similar but a little bit different here. Um we're
going to sustain our work around knowledge of standards, knowledge of students, knowledge of resources, but the approach is different. Building our math instruction through the instructional shifts specifically around sensemaking. Um you're going to notice that here that I didn't layer in through
explicit instruction. Explicit instruction has its place in mathematics, but that's not the entry point. The entry point is not to show step by step by step by step and then all of a sudden we now understand the mathematics. It is about starting with sensemaking making sure that kids
understand what the math is and then for where where it's necessary our teachers build in those explicit instruction routines to make sure that our kids are good and ready to go uh to problem solve because that's what all of math is. It's about problem solving and how do we give our kids the tools to do that. Um, so
similar type of mindset, knowledge of standards, knowledge of students, knowledge of resources. As you guys know, Amplify is our math curriculum for our middle schools going into next year. And for our elementary schools that are um departmentalized
these two uh areas really excited about, you guys know these already. Project Soapbox, civic uh and studentled take action projects. That's going to be an ask for all of our schools. Um so that our kids by the time they leave the eighth grade uh earn a point to the seal
for civic readiness. There are hundreds of high schools that are now also pushing for this work so that by the time the kids leave, they earn that seal for civic readiness by the time they leave high school. Much harder for them to do that when our elementary and middle schools haven't done that work, too. So that those kids earn those
points moving into the high schools. So really excited about that. safe for college program. We're going to continue to push that as well. And then lastly, um our um parent engagement goal. This still needs to be studied. what I'm not
as I looked been reviewing our school survey data um we still we still have 15% of our L families that have never gone to a meeting whether it's a town hall a
um parent teacher conference for 15% of our L families to say that that is not something that is good enough um so this is going to be this goal is going to be adjusted a little bit as I've reviewed some of the uh I mean some of the school survey data. This is an area that I will
um highlight more at our next meeting as I dig into it a bit more. But this needs to improve. Uh we need to make sure that our families are connected uh with our schools um so that they know what is going on and how they can help their kids particularly because this is a
subgroup that if they're not in the loop as families, it's going to be even harder to master the English language. So, um, something that we're going to pay more attention to and I'm going to revise this goal a little bit for your review during our next, uh, next
meeting. And I ask you guys to think about it, too. Uh, what is it that you'd like to see in this goal as well? Um, because as I reviewed the school survey data, I was not happy to see that we had 15% of families say that they never uh attended a a meeting. That's got to be
better. Chronic absenteeism, we know that we need to improve there. that still remains uh a focal point. And then it brings me to this last space of wellness, kindness, and community. And Eden, you know that we talked about this during our last CC meeting. Uh Eduardo,
I'll share this with you. This is the motto, as you know, we shared this last time, wellness, kindness, community. We're asking all of our SLTs to really connect with this during the last CC meeting. This is something that Oops, got an extra period in there. um that um
the CC called out was celebration of the diversity. How are we making sure that we're doing that and gathering feedback from students through surveys and or focus groups around this particular model of wellness, kindness, and community? And then I have some guiding questions
here that I want to review with you guys so that we can share with back to the wellness, kindness, community for a minute. Oh yeah, of course. So something that's thinking about I know we did the big wellness event. I don't know if we want like we do multicultural days in schools. I don't know if maybe we want to put together some kind of district
one this year along those lines because I know the CDC was pushing for like the whole diversity aspect. Okay. So we highlight this now that I had time to think about it since then. Yeah. And I think sometimes I think we
also have to think how we kind of publicize some of the things that we're um also already doing. You know, the number of events that we've kind of organized as a district um has been pretty significant. And I think we have to be able to kind of tap into those a
little bit differently so that we're maybe marketing them in a way that families understand, you know, what what the intent of all of these things are. So when we when we have a thanks forgiving walk in in November, um you know, why are we really doing that? You
know, it's not just to come and give a can of goods to walk around the park. you know, the intent is to help build community at the same time, you know, and I think sometimes um you know, we lose sight of of some of those of those things uh even in how we present them.
So, I think it's important that how we how we kind of market these things is important as well so that our families understand why we're why we're doing it. It's yes, it's about giving a canned good, but it's also about building who we are as a district community, too. Um,
but yeah, I love that feedback. Thank you, Eden. Uh, and then, you know, for SLTs, here are some questions that that um I think are important for them as they're adding uh to their monthly SLT meeting. Uh, just a couple of things, you know. So,
where do wellness, kindness, and community show up within our SLT work? You know, are we talking about it during our SLT? what would actually and even for us what what data would we say shows that um what professional development do
might we need uh and how do we make sure that and I I think why we added this to our SLT meetings every month um is to promote that space of sustainability so that it is not just a you know we talked about it once and Eden I think you and I
that's why we added this to to a DT as a DT recommend recommendation so that it wasn't this one shot. We're going to hold this seal event and then we're done. Um, but I think for us is what what would sustainability look like if
we're really promoting this across the district? What would we want that to be? And then lastly for community building inclusive events that reflect the school's culture. Um, Eden, you just kind of layered it into the idea of
district culture, which I think we have to really think about. Uh, regular family engagement opportunities. Our schools are doing a lot of these, and I'm wondering how we showcase them. You know, are we really showcasing them well enough? I know we put them in um in our
newsletter. Marissa does an awesome job at that. Um, but where else are we celebrating them? How else are we making sure that we're getting it out there? Do I do a good enough job during CEC meetings to share them? You know, are we getting out um you know, with more
frequency to to schools to share that? So, it's given me a lot of things to think about myself. Um but student led initiatives really important for me and collaborative spaces and shared leadership structures just as spaces for reflection. But I'm wondering what you guys think about these two slides. If you can just
take two minutes just to think about them. Um and then we can come back. Put the timer on. Just take two minutes. And these would be questions that our SLTs can kind of ponder. Here's another one I just thought of
right now. Hey guys, any thoughts? Eduardo Eden about the questions? Anything else that we would want to want to ask? Do we think these are good general guiding questions that our schools can ask right at the beginning of the year as SLTs
with their parents, their teachers? Well, it align to to your question before like increasing um um participation from uh families of English language learners like like how how do we increase participation among
our immigrant community given you know the the what's going on right now the atmosphere with eyes and the insecurities that these families have like how do we reassure them that that these are really safe spaces that schools Those are not places where uh
raids will take place. Awesome. Thank you, Eduardo. Uh Eden, anything else? Nope, not for me right now. Okay. Yeah. And I think a couple of the of the things that I I want to make sure that we also do is really define our own
vision for wellness, kindness, and community. Uh now that we've established that this is a model that we're going to use moving forward, um Lewis has made a new iteration of of the the strong roots strong schools tree, which we will kind of unveil um you know, during our next
meeting. uh a couple of other little tweaks that that um I want us to think about before we do share it with everyone. Um but I think it's it's important that we're all thinking about it through a similar lens. So when we say wellness,
kindness, community in district 25, what do we mean? Um you know, and I think that needs to be very clear amongst everyone. And we have a couple of things that we've already layered out that mean that, you know, um but it's making sure that it's concise enough, simple enough so that everyone can
connect with it. Um but that's where that's where we're at. Um you know, really really happy with the progress. Um you know, always want more, but I'm happy with the progress. We in 20 I want to say 2021 I
had shared you know this one when I was a deputy I said by 2026 my goal was that we'd have a minimum of 70% of our kids reading on grade level we are 5% away from that mark
and I do believe that we are going to be able to reach that this year and I think that will be a it's a really really um really important milestone stone because I I I don't know that um we recognize
sometimes the the amount of work that's going into making sure that our kids are becoming proficient readers and given the fact that we have um a population 28% or so of our population are um English language learners and we we do
have upwards of 65 64% of our kids reading on grade level um you know we're we're doing the work, you know, and I think we have certainly a lot a lot to do, but um you know, reaching that 70% uh milestone, I think, will be one that
I'm I'm really going to push our schools to get to at minimum going into next year. So, um excited about that and looking forward to working with you guys again this year. So, Eduardo, turn it to you for a for a high school soup report if you have one.
Yes, I do. Okay. So, let me share my screen. Um, okay. Screen. Let me unshare mine. Where's There we go. Share. Okay. Can everybody see my screen? Yes, sir.
All right. So, we are unveiling our new website for Queens North. Um, so we've been putting a lot of work into this um website where parents can come in and and find resources. Uh so it we're trying to make it as easy as possible to
navigate uh including a section for uh latest news. Um so here you see like um articles that are of interest um to our families including the cell phone the new cell phone policy. Um we also have a
live feed. Um all of these announcements will be attached to a to an app. um our app we're we're hoping our app will be approved and ready up and running by September latest October. Uh some of
these things take a long time to get approved. Um so and then um having a calendar of events like for example um tomorrow we have our summer regions examination schedule and then we have all these backpack back to school backpack distribution events that are
happening um throughout Queens. So if you like to see these events in in a list mode um you can do so by clicking and then so it'll give you a link of where like things are happening for example the back to school uh
distribution events will show you um you know in one where I got the information from etc. So um going back um um let's see we have another um event um uh this
is uh graduation coming up graduation for um from um our summer sites and so the events are also here including graduation rehearsal and ticket distribution. So I want to have a site where parents come and and see that all
the information is that pertains to our schools is available. So, in the parents corner, I included a lot of information to help our immigrant community uh with what's going on with ICE, including Project Open Arms, um the Ready Now app,
uh which includes um interactive uh video tutorials on how to use this app, and a lot of other um um resources such as free English classes, financial aid, uh all of that pertains uh in helping
our um school community succeed. Um let me see what else is um um that we're working on here. So we have the event section uh under um you know find us. I always like to list our office number
and my cell phone number as a family support number cuz I want everyone to you know have access to someone that they can talk to. Uh under our schools, I um I put um the contact information for all of our parent coordinators that
are in in the schools because we want parents when they are um you know trying to find a contact information. So I'm still in the process of adding not just the email address but their phone number, cell phone number and also extension. So I'm collecting that
information as we go along. So, I'm I'm a more complete um directory um when school starts. And so, that's the only update I have. Let me uh unshare my screen. Here we go.
Okay. And so, the the website I'm sharing it um on in our chat. And uh that's all the update I have. uh for today. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, Eduardo.
Uh Eden, any updates? Sure. So, one thing that's been coming up at our two meetings so far is really a big push of how to get more families involved in our meetings. Um our next meeting is September 10th. We are kind
of asking schools to not only push it out through like Gamma, but also like whether Dojo or Parent Square or whatever apps they're using to try to bring more people in. And we're going to be talking about whether we want to do some meetings in different schools this year as well as in the district office
where we've been meeting just to see if that kind of helps increase parent numbers or not to do a little comparison and see what happens. Um, right now we do have the two student member seats open still on our council. We do have one burough president seat still open,
our district 75 seat. We're still waiting for them to place somebody. And then we have one council member that we are in the process of figuring out if the seat is going to be vacated. And if it is, we do have a candidate to interview. So that's the latest updates I have.
Awesome. Eduardo and um I know it's obviously summer, but any of the principles be able to get back to you on uh possible student uh representatives? Um yes, I I I sent an email, but I will send another one. Some of them may be on
vacation right now, but um by the first week of uh I guess the the week of the 20th uh next Monday, I I should have uh um student um candidates for you. Yeah, perfect. That would be great. that way I can get them in and interview them. And um Eden, you know, we should
go for the for the two of them if we can. I think it's a really nice thing for students to have on their um you know, on their on their resumes or whatever. Two students this year instead of one like we've had if we Yeah, I think that's a nice thing. Plus, I mean, the idea to to have a kid
represent themselves and and at the end of the year tell you that they're going they got accepted to Yale. um I think is an incredible thing for for them, but also for the community to recognize that, you know, our kids are getting accepted into,
you know, really amazing schools. Um and they should be recognized for that. And I think it creates a nice platform um for them to be able to to showcase who they are. Uh albeit in a small way, right? It's not a it's not a um you know
a huge amount of of um student to community interaction but that's even something that we can try to figure out how we change too even amongst the the work of the CC. Um but at at nonetheless I think it's a nice thing. So if we can get two kids why not.
All right guys um you know this is going to be a much shorter meeting than usual. Um we'll have a lot more data to pull apart during the September meeting. Um October's date I do want to solidify in September. Um when we are going to have
our um SLT training uh I think it's important right at the start of the year to get that done. You know that was based on feedback we received in the past around you know if I knew that then uh would have been helpful for them. So, uh, I
would like to get that scheduled in October. We'll do it do it in a school. We had done those in schools in the past. 209 was always a school that we did in the past for that uh, SLT training. This year, maybe perhaps it'll be at another maybe it's 209, maybe it's
another school. Uh, but where we can do some breakout rooms uh, for families, get them moving around a little bit, not just stuck in an auditorium listening for several hours on end. That's great. Are we going to offer both the inerson and a Zoom option though because I feel like sometimes it's hard
to get some of them in person? Uh yeah, I mean it's it's that that to me is something that we could work on. I mean if even if someone's presenting in the classroom, they can have Zoom opened as they're as they're sharing uh in the breakouts just provided that everyone goes to the breakout rooms a little bit harder to manage that way. Uh that's
something I'll talk with Lewis to see if we can do that. um you know that that the only obstacle would be like we would need a camera and a laptop and a microphone in every room in every room, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, we have to think about that.
Um yeah, I mean I know the hybrid uh type of option is always beneficial for for families but um you know and for some of our teachers as well. But I also you know we're going to promote this idea is where where's thinking is not so much
the parents but like the teachers that want to get home after a workday. Yeah. No, I I get it. But you know for for me the the whole idea is this is a one once in a year thing. Um, and if we're really going to talk about the sense of community, then you know, it's harder to do that virtually than an
inerson type. And it is it is a expectation of people that are on the SLT, right? So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It makes it easier, no doubt. And I I don't disagree with that, but I I think if we're really going to push this idea of of community- based event, um,
that we have to try to figure out ways that we can do it. And um it's not to say that that I'm that I don't think you can organize around a Zoom. Um but I think the more times that we can get together uh and this only being one in a
in a school year just for other parents to be able to connect with one another I think is a nice thing. Parents to teachers connecting parents to teacher to administrator uh just creates a nice opportunity. um you know and if we ask that everyone from other schools come together in different rooms um at
different times get to you know have a moment of being able to share with one another who they are what school they're from um I just think is a nice opportunity so we'll see uh but that that's kind of the idea that I have right now we can always we'll come to consensus on that in September.
All right, guys. This was fun. Always good seeing you. Um, we'll we'll come to come to con to a close with just the three of us. Guys, we in consensus on closing the meeting? Yes. Dr. Can you stay for one second for me? Of course.
Thank you. All right. All right, guys. Have a good one.