yes Joseph cha present ISM here Alvin president Catherine pres Shirley pres Bob presid John pres Shirley and I'm here as well okay perfect
so first thing we need to do is last month we did not have quum so we need to vote on both the February and the March minutes so if everyone could take a moment we'll start with February and then we'll go to March yeah I put y right next to you
tonight I told them I'm excited special you watched anybody want to make a motion for the February minutes language okay and now we're gonna move on to the March minutes I can
sure something and we have I only have a handful of slaps perfect I'm going to make a motion to approve the March minutes second who was that F thank you okay Dr Mike I'm gonna turn it over
to you sure sounds good good evening everyone let me share my screeny did I ex out my zo I might have second okay good evening so um going to go through our uh superintendent report for
this month just some updates and reminders we do have a couple of civics for all presentations tonight we have two students that are joining us that I'll introduce in a moment thanking them in advance for being here and sharing uh something that they were passionate about in their soapbox speeches so thank
you to our students for being here uh tonight to share a little bit about their their uh their passion and what they they want to share with us tonight tonight uh so hello spring spring is upon us hard to believe we are in uh the stretch run here we're already in April
um it's hard to believe that we're in already in April but we are uh spring Came Upon Us March 20th and we are sprinting towards the end um happy belated uh Eid uh for all of our families that uh that celebrate we hope
that you had a uh a really nice holiday with family and friends um this is power professional appreciation day is today uh so thank you to all of our power professionals uh it is a profession that my mom had for over 30 years in a school
district out on on Long Island so um Power professionals do have a very uh special place for me as I know the work that uh that my my my mother had done for a number of years to support children day in and day out so thank you to all of our Paris uh we do appreciate
the work that you do um it is also National assistant principal week that's coming up next week so big thanks to all of our APS across the district as well as happy Administrative Professionals Day there there are I thank my team so much because I have to tell you I am the
worst when it comes to these things because I feel like there is always some kind of a day that I'm I'm missing to celebrate uh someone and they they do all appre they all do deserve uh the appreciation for the work that they do across our schools here in d25 so big
big shout out and thanks to them uh we do have Passover coming up so happy Passover uh to all of our families that uh will be celebrating Passover as well as Easter is coming up as well so uh big shout out to all of our families that are celebrating both of those holidays
uh Earth Day coming up April 22nd lots of things happening in April clearly um so good time to celebrate the Earth and make sure that you know much like us in trying to build this idea of Wellness we do need to make sure that we're appreciating the planet that we're on um
and keeping it good clean and healthy for Generations moving forward so um April 22nd is Earth Day uh upcoming events we have gone through a a series of uh presentations from from the district we do have a few more that are
coming up in May and June um which are connected to uh to another our final virtual math session that we will be hosting um as we're building towards um the end of the year and the mathematical shifts um we will
have a final I ready session for any of our families that would like to get an understanding of how their children ended the year uh for those that are having a hard time navigating the I ready platform uh we will be making sure that we offer that again this will be the third in the series and then finally
the Acadian session for all of our families that have children in grades K through two we will do a Final End year diagnostic session so our families have an idea of what it is um what the outcomes are for their children and what it means for them in terms of how do I keep your your kids active over the
summer as readers uh really very important that we're able to do uh do so uh just some enrollment timelines uh offers released already for for high school just to make sure in the event that someone does not or has not uh known about that high school offers
were released on March 6th uh Wednesday April 2nd kindergarten and kindergarten g&t offers were released that is today uh Wednesday April 9th middle school offers will be released that will be next week uh April 24th summarizing results and weight list
will be available on my school so if you are a parent that did apply for uh for summer Rising please make sure you're checking your my school's account um for either the seat that has been made available to you or uh if you have not been given a seat that that you're on
the wait list make sure that you're checking for for either of those things Tuesday May 13th is when we see prek operas released and then Tuesday May 20th is 3K offers will be released um big shout out to um to 194
uh for hosting our family Civics night um and a special thanks to Melinda willins from our team this was the the the first time that we engage in such an event uh New York City H whole um has developed what they call the passport uh
to social studies curriculum which all of our schools utilize and engage in and one of the um supplemental pieces to this uh are a series of comic books that are directly related to civic education um that kids typically if you ask
students uh what type of of book do they enjoy reading most they typically say that they like graphic novels and they engage in graphic novels this is a really really nice way to connect your kids with some content uh as well as driving home the importance around democracy and Civic engagement which you
guys know is really important for me uh and we have two students that are going to be here to talk a little bit about why it's important to them through their speeches um so big thanks to them and principal uh principal Miller AP Brian and AP Galo for uh for hosting us along
with the range of volunteers that were present uh Wellness day I do want to make sure that I I shout out Diana Stein and Wing CH from our team um along with Austin Stout who was our resident uh District 25 uh Team Member but also was
gracious enough to DJ the the event for us that day uh all of our CC members for collaborating um and participating in this event um we had over 30 plus vendors present um to support our families with whether it was around
nutrition whether was um mental Wellness physical wellness um it was just a really really nice day the only thing that I ask for in the future from for our families is is making sure that if we're going to secure a ticket that we
come yeah that's the only thing that I ask for from our community is that if we say we're going to go and certainly there are things that come up I know that they come up it happens to to me too but try just ask folks with their with their best intent to try to make it because we we booked 350 tickets and
maybe a 100 100 families came uh and that included many of our community members that brought their children you know so even absent that it was fewer than than what I had hoped but the day itself was really really amazing really really well done um I can only hope the
next time that we do it we have more folks that contributes in the in the form of participating um so thank you to all of you guys I know Grace you did a had a a yoga uh experience in the room with for
um you know so and all the other vendors that that did show up it was really really nice including officite School food they had little salads chickpea salads regular salads all things for to promote healthy eating um and common Point Queens for opening their doors to us um along with uh principal Abbott and
principal Rosa uh for opening their school uh making for a really nice experience the 109th tree SN was present they had the the crossing guards to make sure that everyone was there good and safe to enjoy the experience um so I'm looking forward to seeing how this then
turns into what we're now trying to work on as a collective group really promoting Wellness across our district community so I thank all of you guys for making it a really really nice event for um for us so this is becoming a uh a
common space of our uh CC meetings in terms of my in terms of my report project soapbox you know is something that uh we're promoting across District 25 which gives our kids an opportunity to do a little bit of research on in an area that they value um and then offer
their claim and stance on why it's important um and the intent of this is really to push and promote student voice uh giving them an opportunity to show what it is that they know uh and then create a call to action so that we can all learn from it um so we do have two
presenters here today both from uh from PS 2011 so I'm really excited that we have 2011 here in uh we have Isa Hogan and Tristan Ruiz are here today so thank you to both of them um and the the first one and I'm
sure you're going to have a lot of people eager to hear about snow days I know that I am um so um did I pronounce your name properly Isa Aya Aya please come on down and you get to share with us a little bit about your perspective
on snow days and why we should be paying more attention to it my name is a Hogan from the school ps21 and I believe that a snow day should be when children do not have to school do not have to go to school and sometimes adults do not have to go to work because
of the condition I believe we should enjoy that day by going outside not by sitting in front of a computer as a matter of fact remote learning did not exist before Co before 2020 kids just had snow days
off which was a great opportunity for students to observe the world around them imagine waking up on a beautiful criis snowy day putting on your coat and boots to go outside to play in the wonderful white snow and then it hits
you you have to go to your online class and while we're here let's be honest online learning is a complet you spend most of the day just trying to log on a snow day is a gift of time to slow
down and have a break from schedules and schoolwork for 24 hours part of being a child is getting to play whether it's building a snowman flooding or having a good old snowball flight it allows children to explore their imagination
and creativity in conclusion we children learn more from the wonderful world around us so New York City policy makers let us experience a snow day without the presss of school workor thank you Aya um when I was your
age there were real snow days because we didn't even have computers yet so I'm with you so Aya thank you so much for for being being here to share your perspective on on snow days and why it's important to you and I I would
gather if you pull the rest of your peers I would guess you'd have a lot of them that would probably agree with you and parent and maybe um so it's important that you're able to utilize that voice get your voice out there which you were able to
do and this in a public meeting just so that you know this is not just a meeting where you're here talking to just us you have members from from our district community that are here to hear what you have to say and your perspective so I thank you so much for doing that you are clear and just so that everyone knows we
talk about this every month it's about making sure that you're clear in how you're speaking you did a great job of making sure that I heard what you had to say you made eye contact with the audience and you were very much aligned with your message so I appreciate you for doing that thank you so
much TR and Tristan welcome aboard Tristan thank you for being here as well good evening I'm Tristan Ruiz from ps21 may be wondering why I'm here so let me speak imagine a white room
nothing to see nothing to do how' you feel honestly with a show hands I've been stagnated by borom before who has it creativity is lacking in schools everything now is strategies the
only way for Scholars to have input on this is to tailor those strategies to their needs studies show that students have diverse ways of learning and expressing themselves think of the generation of today I'm sure at least a few of you have heard that generation Alpha is
doomed but maybe we just don't learn the way you do I say let us think outside the box as a matter of fact the most recent Pisa results from 2015 for the United States placed an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and
24th in science something is missing and you all know it why don't we have the most advanced education with our current standing kids are bored why else honestly it's just P so what you may say
why should I care answer me this then how does Free Will exist without creativity being able to develop strategies in the classroom with what's no being able to develop new strategies with what students learn in the classroom as a starting
point the key to unlocking every child's potential and I know this from experience stagnating creativity not allowing on to express themselves is the true restriction we allow oneself look if District policy makers passed a rule
that allowed students a bit more free reent in the classroom I'll be with restrictions we can unlock on top potential sometimes it just takes one one voice one choice one kid to change
to many how does this Rel to you I just need you to ask more questions do what is right for you and your children students it's imperative that you ask those in charge to alter the policies so places can be made for your thoughts if we don't stop this we will
create a dystopia where your grandkids will be trapped folks look in the end I'm here to give you a reality check to see through my eyes this won't be your last wake up call mark my words
thank you so much uh for for sharing that and what uh what you just now earned is my email address so that you can share with me uh what your perspectives are and how we can change that space of creativity to make it a little bit of a different
place for you so when you're talking about District policy makers you just spoke to one so and message was heard and I think it's important that we do a really good job of listening so thank you so much for sharing that with me should you make sure that Tristan has
my information so he can email me about his ideas hold on so also just as a little thank you um for those of you that just presented and a sibling that we have here we have something from ource that we're going to give each of you
guys back that one take that you wanted to help you got to help the right way thank you thank you okay thank you guys for coming that's it so thank you guys for joining us uh
tonight and for sharing your um your soac speeches and what your call to action is for all of us um I I truly believe in the power of our students voice and to me it's not just about you guys being able to speak here which is
why you're going to get my email address is so that we're able to then extend beyond this because it's not just about being able to to speak about it and get your voice out there it's and how do we make things happen and how do we make changes and what children often don't
realize is that sometimes your voices are louder than the adults in the room and I don't know that you guys don't if you realize that AA interested but that is the truth is that when you guys use those voices we wind
up listening a great deal so I'm glad you guys were here tonight to share your perspective thank you guys so much so um a couple of other things for from me that um I do want to share with you guys uh tonight is around something that is
happening in District that I want you guys to be aware of um our schools are engaging in what we call an uh an Ela Sprint um so this is for children uh particularly that been I that have been
identified that are just below or just around being uh identified as proficient um within the context of of I ready um and you know if they were a fourth or or fifth grader where they also landed on the New York State assessment last year
uh so part of this work is really about just giving opportunity to get some additional supplemental support this is not intended to take away from um core instruction in the classroom uh this is intended to be during maybe perhaps there's a center opportunity during a
small group learning opportunity um some of our schools have what they call Focus periods or Flex periods uh but building in time and space where kids can engage in uh in the use of I ready for 30 minutes uh to 50 minutes over the course of a week uh not not a day I want to
make sure that's clear not a day over the course of a week uh where they're practicing on skills that are necessary to kind of be amped up as we close out this this school year uh and prepare for what the New York State assessment is going to show for us so some standards
in particular that um that we're really paying attention to as well are standards R2 R3 and R4 and just to give you a little bit of context that's about how to kids use key idea uh key details in text to really summarize what that
text is all about um it's also around making sure they can compare and contrast characters in in a text um as well and the last one which ties into what I'm going to talk to you about in terms of next year is around figurative language that kids are able to decipher
within a text when something doesn't necessarily um doesn't kind of call right out to them because it's figurative in nature um it's harder for at times for our children to get an understanding of what the meaning is of that of those phrases so these three
standards pretty much across grade levels um and the way that they kind of use the standards they kind of build on one another across grades kindergarten all the way up through eight you'll see a notice a little bit of a difference in in the standards but they're in general around the same kind of idea and concept
so as a district we're really pushing um opportunities for our kids to do so we have a total of uh 3,922 children that live just under or above meeting standard which uh which is
uh something that's really important for us to to press forward on and we have 2768 6 through 8th graders that were also doing this for across the district so in the event that you have a child that is participating in this I did want to make sure that everyone knew what it
was about um and you know what it means because there have been some questions around oh my goodness you know are we doing this for 30 to 50 minutes a day and it was concerning some families so just to make sure everyone knows it's for the week 30 to 50 minutes um and
it's not intended to interrupt their regular class schedule now in terms of planning and setting the stage for next year um schools are going to start organizing their CS uh their comprehensive education plans for next year and
something that I think is really important for us to continue to go say again oh yeah yeah sorry I don't know why it look so much smaller today you're on theong slide now okay there slid sorry I felt like I was going blind there we go that's
better still small but it's a little better though um so this is just the timeline just for for you guys to know this is a general timeline for c um submission and right around now is the time that schools are starting to examine you know how did the year go are what are things
that we need to work on as we move into next year looking at our current patterns and Trends and the the one Trend that I think is really important for us to all be aware of and know here in the district we have 6600 English language Learners right so we have uh
which is accounts for over 27% almost 28% of our children speak languages other than English among that we have 25 almost 25% of them are entering which means they just got here and very very limited
English um another 20 plus% that are emerging which are you know they've grown a little bit past that first part they probably have some basic uh basic language skills um but they're still not necessarily to a place where they are approaching that commanding space which
is where we want them to be uh transitioning which means that they're now in a place where you know they they they are speaking much differently um but they're not necessarily to place where they are reading and writing with uh with proficiency and then expanding
similar type of nature you'll see many of our kids are able to speak fluently in their in English uh but still are struggling with comprehension of text we have 56 and a half% of our L students are Asian 40% of our L students are
Hispanic 18.7% of our L students have IEPs 46% of those are in ICT 41% are in classes um 20% of our L's are chronically absent really important part
of this 34% of our Hispanic students and 29% of um uh of the Hispanic students 29% of the Asian students are enl that that I think is a little bit of a mistake I have to fix that one and then lastly 31 and a half% of IEP students are also
else okay so now why do I talk to you about that because there is a a clear difference in terms of performance so all students we've went over this earlier but non-l students right now at the middle of the Year about 62.4% were currently on or above grade
level um with you can see the the change in the overall number of kids that are currently multiple grade levels below shifts significantly and we have most of our kids are either early on above or that one grade level below that we want
to try to push towards um by the end of the year to move out of but then when we talk about our L's and this I did share with you guys that we do have uh a significant percentage of our L's that we need to continue to grow through um but they are also taking some of our
assessments and here's where they are currently falling when it comes to uh I ready performance so we have many of them of our L Learners that are performing at three grade levels below space two grade levels below space one
grade level below space now it's not as though this is not something that is subject to District 25 these are children that are still learning the English language it's not as though they should all be uh all of our El students should be performing on or above grade
level right that's not a reality but what I'm sharing this to you for is this what I do see is progress with the work that we've been doing this year so for our kindergarten through second grade when we're talking about some of the foundational skills skills if you look
on the screen from last year is in the in the dark blue to this year in the lighter blue we're seeing a significant number of more children that are currently meeting standard in some of the key foundational areas I.E um first
sound fluency phon segmentation that's really all about the phonemic awareness space um nonsense word fluency um the you know words correct versus um correct letter sounds you're seeing an
improvement in our this is just our El's this data our El's have advanced when it comes to this um and then for I ready for children in grades three to eight we're also seeing an increase and Improvement of children that are now their high frequency words are starting
to improve meaning there's a recognition of them knowing what they are as well as their ability to the code is improving by mid year it was 15% the hope is that we continue to grow through that as time goes on so what it does say to me is
that the work around decodables the work around explicit instruction is starting to show itself as having an impact to this point of the Year clearly a lot more that we have to do to build our kids to grade level readers um but I'm encouraged by the by the progress that
we're seeing there in these particular areas but now what does it mean in terms of moving forward is for next year what what I would like to really prioritize is certainly staying consistent with explicit instruction and the use of
decodables but really emphasizing what does instruction really look like sound like and feel like for our English language Learners inside of our classrooms how are we going to continue to elevate the work inside of our rooms to build our kids as readers as speakers
uh as listeners and as writers those are the four modalities for our kids to be able to test out and be proficient uh in the English language and those are areas that we do want to continue to emphasize as a district Community uh because it aside from it it being important it's
imperative for our kids most of the time when we get children into our school district that are in the fourth or fifth grade and are coming here for the first time it's harder for our kids to learn the English language
after uh that kindergarten that five six seven eighty old range when English and the language comes more more quickly to them as compared to a kid who's been here at 10 11 12 years old now starting to learn those foundational spaces so for us this is a space that I believe is
really really important for us to emphasize um as a district Community moving forward and I just wanted to share my initial thinking with you when we get to May and June I'll have a more prescribed set of goals that we are establishing this going through with our principles kind of talking through it
with them what are we seeing what are we learning and how do we make our next steps um but the way that I see it you know the the consistent work around decodables is really important uh because it's helping build confidence and helping build our kids ability to decode words but now it's about how we
making sure from the decoding to comprehension which is not always the easiest leap and that's where we need to go for for our kids just wanted to give you guys a little bit of a heads up in terms of where uh I see us going as a district Community moving
forward okay um and lastly just around this space on Wellness um we talked about this briefly just earlier ago but just for the community to know uh that District 25 and the CC are working in collaboration with one another um
through a pilot process where we're going to really for us we decided on Wellness as being the area that we're going to focus on um we'll be sending out a survey tomorrow uh to all of our families in our community to identify first and foremost what is our model
going to be around uh around wellness and then this committee along with um hopefully our students next month too uh start piecing together the definition for what we want Wellness to look like sound like and feel like in District 25 um and more importantly from there start
putting together some real clear and important action steps uh for what we want it to look like across our schools um so that concludes my report for today unless there are any questions if anyone has any questions any question Dr
Mike okay thank you Dr Mike Sure pleasure so to start off my report um so you guys saw me give our students that were speaking today something so we had ordered these in hopes of having them the day of the wellness event they
didn't come in time we officially have water bottles press balls and pens and the students that were here today actually the first ones to get them so as we have students coming to meetings we're try to make sure they get something or other future events we're going to be trying to give them out um
but they came out really nice so I wanted to make sure everyone got to see them tonight um thanks to Egypt for bringing that down and other than that I don't have anything else right
now so I'm going to move to new business anybody have any new business yes yeah um thank to marel she set up a meeting uh between the translation people with myself um it wasn't a total
waste of time because I saw so their actions they don't want to change you okay so I told them you keep using the word traditional that's very political because the Chinese charact well Chinese have characters and words the you write
Chinese right you write Chinese right can you read oh so and you read simplifi characters there we go there we go great so
um they said that uh they're going to keep calling the traditional even though the characters says complicated complicated style of letters so let it go right she said they've been doing uh the um traditional for 20 years I came
this close saying the last time somebody told me that my respon was aren't you glad somebody telling you how to do correctly right but because she set up the meeting I didn't want to get so I didn't say anything so the U am I right so I don't
know your relationship with them so anyway um someone suggested that I go to Dr Mike and ask him to do there's a language coordinator in the building do a survey and uh see if the Chinese
parents brought have complicated or simplified or both right now the problem with that is what language I'm going to use to do the survey good question there there maybe a
few hundred characters that are simplified most people who can read write complicated can figure out what it is by the context whereas people from China some of are that educated they finish eth grade or ninth grade they they look at that I asked them they just
trash in the paper paper waste paper basket so uh I don't know but okay so she said we will change if the need is there that me speaking to her did not represent the
need right um I also said that in my building we always transitting into simplified because most parents are from China right there's 14 billion Chinese or 1.1 billion Chinese she didn't she not anything until they're they're you
know until there's proof like okay and then she on the blue card make a change on the blue card is it asks okay first of all on the blue card they think Kon is a language Canon is not a language on
the blue card it does not ask them if you want comp communication uh from us using complicat simplified it does not ask suppose they ask the people don't know how to read the complicated wouldn't be able to feel that anyway so that's something I can certainly bring back to to the to the team to see how we
can get something um perhaps translated in just the the small space of which do they value because it's not a lot of words that will have to be to be translated for that to get perspective for families I I really at this point I'm just trying to figure out a way to get to the parents so more of them will
be participating because right you sent me why' you send it out he just said the space limitation for the issue yeah I did say that to right I did say both she just ignored me I think what is kind of what they're
asking for right they're saying this is the data they have and then what your concern is is that when they're feeling on this new form they're not specifying traditional or simplifying because they don't know that they should right right and then Dr M say made you know working with the district team on how to um
speak to the language act coordinators make sure they're communicating with families in a way that they understand and that they're answering traditional or simplified if you get that data and share with Ola she no she did not say you were
partially correct she said we asked for what what language or what form they want on the blue card so right away I told her no you don't so what I'm say what I can do Joe though is if if it's a question around how many folks would would appreciate it
in uh in one format or another we can at least get perspective and say you know what of the 24,000 families that we have here in District 25 this is the volume of folks that are saying that they really need to have translation and simplified it's it come it carries a
much different um space of weight when we can when I can say I can even bring that back and say you know what I have X number of families that really do need this um I want to show you yeah you go ahead so but that that's something we can we can send out I mean I wouldn't be able to tell you obviously one way or
another what what it says has in simplified or the other but this came up at our SLT meeting for okay this is Art complicated and this is
Art simp I'll take picture I went to a visit is it 163 164 Bing school I asked the assistant because I saw the word art on the door art room right so I asked the assistant principal whether they use complicated or simplified he said
complicated so something that came up from uh the SLT at the school that I um a part of is that we were concerned about the different languages and what was going out and where parents getting it in the languages they need and something that was actually shared back by the technology teacher who also does
a lot of these distributions for us is that most of the parents who need to translate these items have something on their phone and they're going to put it in and be like hey translate that movie or read it out to me in my language so I get where like some people might need it
but there also is people that are taking that next step to do it themselves on their devices so I I think there are a lot lot of things that we could consider because um you know there will be families that unfortunately are not literate in
regardless of language that we're presenting it to and they're not necessarily going to be able to to uh capture the meaning of said survey regardless of what character you include in the in the document and that was actually learned you know as part of a meeting parent meeting that I had at one
of our schools where the parents were also talking about how do we build more opportunities for engagement and one of the things that they did learn and they also have a similar WeChat approach that you got that you use Joe is that families weren't responding because they
weren't able to read the messages that were present in it either um so before before they even did anything that was became kind of I'm not even going to look at that was the feedback that they received so I do think that there's an opportunity for us to gather some of that information and if we have thousands upon thousands of people that
are saying that they need it in a certain um format then that can be shared you know to the translation unit for them to make a change yeah look at this this is the art in the old form right this is the art in the simpler form yeah no I got I saw I saw the difference yeah I saw anyway I just I I
don't mind being like turned down but for someone who doesn't understand the Chinese language it tells me they're not doing anything not changing because we've been doing for the past 20 years really so but that's what I mean that I can bring back that I that I can bring back with with some data that says here
are the number of people that need that I'm gonna I'm going to go into the weche groups of school to let them know there'll be a survey please feel it out yeah and I can send you the survey so that you can look that yeah befor so that I thank you what looks great for me you might be like dude that doesn't make
any sense you know so that we can do any other new business anyone else has I don't know if you mentioned it but it's also World autism day today yes oh yes it is I did notame on me which is why I have to so
for all those children um I wanted to kind of make sure we recognize that as well yep if there's no other new business I'm going to move on to public speaking is there anybody that would like to speak if you're on Zoom just raise your hand so we know if you would like to
speak yeah okay yes I do I yeah go ahead is there so um last night I came across an article in chbe which does a lot of
Education reporting and it talked about the class siiz law that we have in place and um it went through actually a very thorough process in terms of the challenges that are going to be faced by our entire school system and certainly
25 is one of the districts that have class sizes that are larger than what will be mandated so um you know there are a lot of moving parts of this plan and I guess just speaks directly to District
25 do we have a I guess a idea of what the gaps are where we're going to move to and what is the teacher hiring that will will be needed because that's really what we're faced with you know there's the financial aspect that's that
side but really there's been teacher shortages in certainly a number of subjects as you get above sixth grade lower level and um what is the plan for us uh for the classrooms that will need the additional teachers so we're
supposed to be complying 60% by September of this year so we're talking about less than six months way we were actually just talking about this a little while ago because I was asking if there's been feedback from what the school to subm have submitted and they were supposed to get back to my school
submit as well and um we have not heard they say that they are supposed to be getting back to us within the next few days um to see that that's really the budget aspect of things right and then the schools the principles are going to
be have the burden of now making The Hires that we need for my school we're hoping to get 10 you know and then we have as many schools teachers retiring nutrition for all sorts of reasons and
systemwide they we New York City Schools typically have to hire 5,000 to 7,000 just normal year and they're exactly and they are expecting with the mandated class size that we have to hire 7,000 to
9,000 and I would say that in a district like us we are in probably the top quartile of districts that have this need so I don't know well I mean I don't know that necessarily that yeah that we have have the the the volume being in the top of
of of needs many of our schools actually right now can be just fine and don't have to add one person um you know because their class sizes are already very small to begin with in fact those are schools that haven't even had to apply because their class sizes are
already below the the threshold so 25 is good 26 is the problem I know one so no I I don't think that I don't think that anything is is necessarily could be classified as good you know um so but what I'm saying is that we do have a number of schools that are already meeting that threshold requir right 40%
we we have we have um 20 plus schools that have already applied you know we'll know more about what that looks like in terms of overall personnel once those applications come back as either approved or or not I can't give you that but what that will detail is
how many people we actually do need here in the district so part of our work is engaging in you know the space of hiring fairs February and September are the windows when certifications are are posted and available for any new folks that are available uh and then there's
also time and space within the open market system for folks to be able to then move into other locations and apply for vacancies that are available the district as well that there going to be moving from I guess lesson demand districts to districts that are I guess
a little easier um so that's going to be the shuffle I guess as a parent speaking my concern is the quality and how the teachers will be trained before they are put in front of our children and and given the shortage given a lot of moving
Parts it is concerning to me that you know they're talking about you know kind of FasTrack expedited training par professionals great at to celebrate them but you know you know moving into a certified teaching role so as a parent
representing other parents you know here you know we are concerned about um filling those spots with truly um teachers that are trained so the only thing that I would say is is that you know 27 28 years ago I was a new teacher
too and I had an opportunity to to learn and grow in my craft as well all of the other teachers I know but you say this and I'll tell you this I don't want my child to be in that classroom for the first I get it in the first five years you know I hear that and and as a parent
is well um my child has one life of learning and I want that to be the best they can be it's not for a teacher to grow into it with with my child you know in their training time so I hate to be very selfish in that but we have to be
as no I don't think it's I don't think it's about you know being selfish but but I also think that there are you know you know any person that's new that's coming into the craft we can say that we don't want you know a new teacher I don't know that that's necessarily a bad thing to say but um because you know as
as a new teacher I had many of folk that wanted to be in my classroom uh because Mike was the new fres the new fresh person that was in the school they were excited to be in my classroom um you know so I think that part of that is how
do we make sure that we're organized around the pl supports that we're providing our kids exactly um I mean our teachers so that they're prepared for our kids so there are a certain set of expectations that we have here in the district so any of our folks that that go into our classrooms are receiving the
training that we expect in terms of providing the few things that I talked about already tonight it's around explicit instruction how we making sure that we're modeling clearly for kids making sure that they have clear expectations for their learning so that at the end of it they're working independently in meeting the
expectations of the standards that's what our goal is regardless of whether they are new or veteran um and you know some folks will also on the other end of that say that they're not sure that they really want to have a veteran person in front of them either because maybe perhaps they you know they don't connect
with their children too so I think there you there can be arguments on either side of that space space but in the end it's about making sure that we're doing the best that we can so that all of our teachers are ready to go from September is there a hiring PR like or are they like if we needed teachers are we able
oh yes yes not I mean I can't imagine that if if we need more we can put you go ahead L there you go k go for it all right um I think sometimes the new teachers are
so eager to do well and they're coming into this as a vocation something that's really called them into teaching I think that even though they don't have the experience of being an expert in the field um really get someone with a lot
of enthusiasm who there who wants to do well and who will then go above and beyond um to to do what the kids need in that room um and and to learn what it is they need to learn in order to become an expert so
I think that I think that it's going to be I think it's going to be good bringing in a lot of new a lot of new I can go now yes I can only speak about the Math teachers some of the student teachers
are more effective than some old old I don't old that the way it's t what I meant is they're like a sponge absorb right and then when kids don't get it I had a I had a stud teacher came back really upsetting the office the kid didn't get it so I asked
what I'm not sure help me don't speak to your you know teer first but that's most teachers don't do that but many teachers who do that and then some student teacher will do that some of them are really really good I offered the jobs they went out to the
island I told them the p no I I I I I agree I mean my child has teachers that are just very new impression they put a I told them some you have to get some sleep they have to get some sleep
because yeah listen I think in the end the biggest part of your question is an important one it's making sure that we're preparing everyone to be in front of our kids um in the end that's what it's about I I'm actually questioning whether we can have those positions
filled because that is seems to be the challenge is is um you know I I I've seen in the school that I've been involved with we lose a language teacher and we can't find one um so I I think there I think do think that there are
specific roles that become a little bit more difficult than others um you know certain certain licenses in general are harder uh when you're when you're thinking about things like language um you know
unfortunately there there's not this overabundance of certain certain license areas but um I do believe that you know once we have a clear idea of the the how many we'll be able to make sure that our kids have teachers in front of them that are going to be able to support their
learning U that's that's certainly my goal that's what I'm charged with making sure that they can do that yeah and we have a hiring Fair coming up yeah yeah hiring fair is coming up for for the district that's uh coordinated by our team to make sure that you know that our
folks are clear and aware of who's out there and available and you know we are fortunate that you know we we have um what listen I Willow classify as an amazing District um you know so um I think there will be a lot of willingness
for folks to come and come aboard um to to work here in District 25 um the volume I don't necessarily 100% know yet but I do believe that we'll be okay he's in more people are willing to come here than well here yes I I saw my career I
only have three teacher leaving one got married relocated to New Jersey one got married relocated to Texas and the other ones wait yeah there's the other one just teach again yeah I don't think that it's necessarily that it you know it's you
know that um because we're District 25 that you know where you know where're the space where I'm going to classify that you're you're better off here that's not what I mean by that I just mean that I mean that we're we're just a you know we're a good District I would want to come here if I was if I was a teacher next
next more coaches in the schools for the curriculums for hmh there's coaches that are coming into the schools all the time to make sure that the teachers are doing it and kind of administering it the right way and then there's going to be a new math math curriculum yes so there's going to be coaches there for that there's always there's going to be a lot
of extra PD and like people that are there to support the new staff and the old staff to get them acclimated and up to yeah and our our team is is really fantastic we actually held um a number of Saturday events where teachers came
in for coaching with our team members uh just because they wanted to get additional exposure to um you know best practice you know so that that is something that that our team does aside from the coaching that comes in from outside our team is in my opinion Second To None they do an amazing job of
supporting the pl here in District 25 and they'll continue to do so I have fortunate that I do have a great team uh to help uh to help our schools move forward so but I understand the concern and the question and anybody on Zoom that wanted
to speak Arlene did you want to say something look like she's trying to unmute got yeah I just wanted to say listening to this um you know I'm G to
go back so many years perhaps far more than I should this District uh I could tell you when the immigration started to come into the district was in the early 1980s and we had to deal with it and
after so many years of serving on a school board and seeing the change in the district there was one teacher in one of the schools when technology became an issue and they started printing up big signs they made up a
sign for this district and it became history and we hunger in that room that you're sitting in and the sign said if you think you died and went to heaven you're in District 25 because that was the comment made by
every teacher who came to this District whether they were fresh whether they were middle whether they were senior teachers but it's how the district worked and how it still works the priority are the children and that's the
most important thing to always keep in your heart in your head the priority of the children and at no time did we have more diversity than we have now and we have so many different languages then we had 107 different languages and dialects
in one school so I know it's greater now so keep your chin up your children are get through it we all got through it our kids got through it and some of them became very very famous very very successful and it happened in District 25 so I congratulate all of you and
remember it's the best one of the best districts 25 and 26 Stand Out always stood out and will continue to stand out in this city I'm more concerned about the demise of the board you know the Department of Education and how we're
all going to try to keep up what we've been doing doing without the kind of help that we should be getting from them so good luck I'll always be here if you have any questions I try to come to your meetings thanks arene thank you
arene is there anyone else that has their hand raised okay perfect I want to make a motion I have more things to say oh on Monday coming April 7th there's only 50 school days
left until summer vacation graduation that's hard to believe isn't it that's crazy Monday Monday happens that's it it certainly goes fast on that note and okay okay meeting adjourned at 8 o'clock
we'll take five and then we will go to our business meeting if you have forms you need me to sign please send them over to me Joe I need you to sign too okay okay business meeting pull to order at 808 yeah Ed you want to call the roll call
now this time I can do it if you don't have it in front of you here here here here Robert here here thank you okay so first thing we need to talk
about is the award ceremony Egypt did send us a couple of links to look at um for medals and things like that so I wanted to talk about what we want to give this year specifically and then I will take a look at the websites further if anyone saw
anything that stood out that they want to share um be good what the budget is again on that well so sorry we're gonna get to that in a second okay he's got numbers he's gonna go over in a second
um they're not super expensive from what I was looking at like it's doable will still be under budget um he's going to go over numbers but we will be under thank you um but the other part of it is like I want to do get like get the order in as soon as possible so we make sure
we get it in time because this stuff obviously took longer than we expected so we'd like to order ASAP the second part of that is do we have a form leis to send out yet yes did we send it out yet when do you usually send that
out so any day now yeah okay so you'll start getting a list for us okay can you share the pamplet and the award things that you guys did for us last year with so that we can get
those yes awesome so those were my two things because we didn't have help last year so Louis and Mar helped so this year we do have help luckily um but our June meeting is the award ceremony so we have one more
meeting before then so did anybody take a look at the sit did anybody see anything that stood out I just want to make sure I just shared the right date June 11th is the is the date that's what I have in my calendar I just want to make sure that that's right yeah yeah I believe so because I
remember we moved it around of the year can I see the yes and this one's a water drop by the way I don't have it anywhere the CC website which we're going to talk about anyway but if you look at the one on the
District page has the calendar on there correct calendar it has the most up toate calendar did anybody take a look at those links though or because I started clicking through but did you brain kicked in and I was like oh
what what can I start ordering some of the things for do we have an option for a school uh that you would recommend last year we did it at 194 which I thought was great uh their
Auditorium is brand new um we can ask uh Miss Miller again if you'd like um I feel like we always wind up going to 185 um so maybe we want to schols too not necessarily do
that September yeah 99 we did $499 $499 is great too uh all with auditoriums air conditioning so that you don't have to worry about the thing in June yeah the steamy um summer so one's with air conditioning 194 has air conditioning
um um 499 has air conditioning which is always you know a positive uh 25 doesn't have I don't know does 25 condition I know we've done it there before it's always been relatively yeah so those are the places that we've
usually done um mostly because their auditoriums are spacious enough and you know it will remain cool so I can go to any of them you know I'm sure any of the principles wouldn't mind who open their doors what's the school that it's um all the way up to eth grade kids hear from
it tonight 2011 is that at 200 200 is 200 is a k to eight K to eight right um the size of their Auditorium is probably not necessarily as big big enough okay um 250 have to check I think they were
going for an auditorium upgrade I have to see where the what the status is of those um but for me the provided that there are air conditioner air conditioning I I think is really the biggest thing yeah yeah just because it could be really really hot and folks
will be miserable so I'll double check on 250 and 200 okay we can go to either of those two I just feel like we haven't G either one of them so like 194 499 we've done 185 we've done so if we want to try to change it up if they have the space to hold nice to give like
189's Auditorium um I have to think what does 189's auditorium have air in there no and plus the parking over there is not is not goodr oh 37 379 has more of a of a captor it's not really a it's not we did
the event this over the summer oh the elementary SCH Elementary School uh 129 yes um how's their Auditorium it's they have a big Auditorium now they I don't remember I do not believe so most of the schools don't aren't
equipped with the auditorium that has um has air units that will keep it cool when you when you have 500 people say again wish list yeah so I know it's a big school also that's why I was thinking yeah we can we can go through I'll get you some some schools within the next couple of days yeah if you send
that yeah then we could kind of choose a school but I mean our principles are great I mean if I if I ask any of them I I don't see any of them saying that they'd be an issue unless there's some kind of construction that I'm not aware about right now that would prevent us from going in okay awesome so I think
Metals for the students kind of simple like are we gonna do them paper yeah the certificate is gonna be for everybody certificates or they just print them like we print them we print them we print them yeah we get the paper and we print them up we
have the thing okay got yeah our logo like you know District that could be for the teachers you could show everyone what you're looking at so Shirley's looking at like this little notebook it's like similar to this but where you have a pen
attached yeah yeah see we that it's the exact same thing something like that for the teachers we have District 25 and on the bottom CC 25 I think it would be something useful I do like that they could actually do I mean
I have Ted these from work and I think it's definitely useful which site are you on on that one the first one four imprint four imprints I think they they yeah that's why we had the list from okay and then did we decide on our Joe
Kesler award we didn't did we do a group text or on it I one no but I can create one yeah that was one of them right wasn't there another name we threw out
there there was a second name that we had thrown out there you did I don't remember who it was though wasn't someone that I mentioned I think one of you guys mentioned it I don't know who I know the one that you just said but yeah I know that one but there
was definitely another name I have to look is that where the person was oh it was yes oh yes yes yes yes you know I I don't know theom got it last last year how
about her name yes she got but she's doing really great with the so I mean these kids are really like yeah no she she the only thing I don't know if people keep having that's why like Esther's not here
with us anymore and I know we talked about her last year but I really do like the teacher from 242 she's involved with UFT stuff she's involved in like she comes she gets very like Hands-On involved Joe this is for you also um no no
no out loud I I just said so the only thing I said around the goler award is that there have been a number of folks that have been from the district team and I don't want it to be kind of quote unquote a district award
it's not it's not just about recognize other people are there other people that you would want to recognize other than just team members I don't want tole award means that you were on the district team and that's why you're getting an award you I can certainly ask our our building leaders if they feel like there's
someone that's really reflecting um the this idea of of sportsmanship and um and service because that's really what the Joe Kesler award was about um you know I can we can reach out to our building leers I think that would be the person from that SCH whose name gonna come up
right away [Music] been oh you can connect with Lamar and ask she's saying would Lamar candidate be a candidate morning l
a sports event with the teachers and but not having involved with students that's why I was like that's why like I going off of what Dr Mike was saying about like the district team that I that's why I kind of like
the idea of the teacher that we were talking about from 242 not I don't know a lot of people don't know her as well like I've gotten to know her my son was in this in that school at one point for a year in kindergarten um and I got to know her then I've gotten to know her a lot more since then and she's very very involved
with the students um with the UFT she comes to our meetings all the time like she's very Hands-On and very involved and trying to she's always trying to get more kids to apply for the school because you have to apply to that school like and go through a whole process um I think she's just a really
allaround great candidate but if we want to reach out to the schools and see if there's anybody they recommend we would have to just kind of do it quick because we have to kind of know by the next meeting for sure who we're going to go with can't you to
them we would have to give her like the description of the award Des you guys wouldn't really know this why you could hear what we're saying weing your name so I'm like maybe you should come
this way so we're talking about sending something out to possibly building leaders to see if they have anyone in mind for this award but we want to make sure the description of the award is there so Dr Mike said he make sure the description is there but have you kind of get it out to them but we want to get
a quick turnaround on for feedback so that we could then make a vote at the next meeting and be like finalized on the well we have to consider there's only one week of school before Easter break and that's a whole week off and so when do we want it then do we want it before the Easter break because then we're only
giving them a week to get it us you want it by the Friday of Friday our meeting is May 7 one of the things that I I would say that maybe maybe we could also consider um is we do have a lot of of District
sports teams now uh with a lot of really great coaches um that really that's the spirit of all of this is promoting this idea of sportsmanship and and service to the community and they've done a really great job with our kids and whether it's Elementary School basketball league or
the cheerleading teams which we have a cheer Expo and I so mad at myself that it included in my my is there any specific ones that stand out to you though we have a number of them are great I I mean we we have a number of them that are really terrific that I can connect with Diana on so that it reduces
the pool of folks that you're that you're thinking about maybe see if Diana has like any specific that have just that have kind of just put themselves out there and gone just scking with like a can I can I just say something because we don't have like that much
time to consider the the candidates I would say if we did decide with Esther last year but because we gave it to Joe if we give it to Esther this year how many members here would want to give it to Esther this year
I didn't know her so whatever everybody I could go either way I feel that I'm my most of us guys listen to Alvin for a second most of us that have worked with Esther
knows how dedicated she is with the CDC I know that sportmanship is because of Joe Kesler is his name is his award how dedicated he was to promote you know Public School UFT and even the teacher
from 242 I I totally agree that she she is really deserving of it but not that many members here really know her I feel that Esther because a majority of us have worked with her and I I think that it's I think she should serve for this
year yeah is everyone comfortable voting yes or no there or you guys want I think that I think it think just said it's only gone to District people so far um it's only gone
people from The District's office so far and it is and but that's because that's all we know right we should take in other candidates and put them all up to listen like their story just kind of mentioned something that I'm wondering if we could create one more award create
like award Prof something like some kind of an award that we want like that if we don't want to like choose her for this recog ask her to come and recognize her for all she had done in another way with another type of award like a recognition
% of people are already voting forer without having the other name right we don't we don't have yeah I mean is anyone open to doing like that like a recognition for her of some sort and then looking at another person for yes the Joe kler
award any feedback what do you think because I noticed that Jo related heavily because right now we're in April June 11 is right around the corner if you if you if you mind us all on school holidays and also this one
that's why I need to know before the next time time is not really like we have a lot of time if we going to consider a lot of like suggestions like from from the district and Give the names we don't even know these people you
know the name but how many how many how many names are we G to get and then among those names how how are we gonna Joel castler we give out a playover and it takes time for them to put name we also have to think about
that oh no February 28 but I'm trying to go back to when we were we should have it was definitely at February meting or maybe like teachers that have like pee classes
in the schools just bring the news out and then maybe get like consensus yeah I mean I like I know um my kids teacher Mard coach Mard so I put him for but I don't know if anyone else would know him or what you know how you going
to get we all know like the person at our school and yet we're not really here to represent our school specifically right so and then how are you gonna vote how are you g to know is a good guy a bad guy whatever I think what uh Dr Mike
told us from the our district sports team coach maybe we should kind of hear their brief description Dr the best got already and then maybe got it and then maybe we could vote how's that moving forward this just
a suggestion because Dr might has this wellness program I think this is would be a good way that you know for future ccs to present the Joe Tesla award is to like really move that wellness program and you know just get to know the
teachers that are involved in sports yeah so from the and then we'll make the well and we could make another you know some dedication for Esther I I definitely agree with you because I work we work with
es a lot of recogition we can give her so so Diana is going to give me a list tomorrow of folks that she thinks would um would represent that award well along with a blurb explaining a little bit
about them for you guys to reflect on I have to right away Tom problem voting can we do email um so this is not really a vote per more of an agreement
email that um check where you could discuss your umy for week what's the best day and time for everybody next week for a check-in a check in thank you there we go we're finding
ways what day is the cheer Expo cheer Expo is next week on um it's on Tuesday has that right uh Wednesday Friday hold on I could be lying hold on it's either Tuesday Friday or Wednesday Friday what about Wednesday of the night
because I know we've done Wednesdays Tuesday Thursday Tuesday no Thursday is the rain day what does Wednesday look like for everyone time was during the day um I'm okay yeah have a specific time that
stands out the only day the only time I maybe make it as I'm in arbitration all week so my week's back but maybe during lunch I could just good question if we do get the names by tomorrow can we do it Friday or not this week Friday too
early if people are available to jump on Friday cuz we I just want to make sure that we put the order in okay we want to put the order F yeah I do Friday Friday Friday is lunchtime
ideal for everyone like 12ish so so you're gonna forward us the thing we're gonna read it and then we're gonna Zoom Diana is gonna so one thing about Diana she knows these folks really well just because she's been organizing and calibrating collaborating all of those things with all of the different
programs that we offer um so she's going to give a a recommendation of a handful of them with a blurb around the things that they've done in their schools and for the district that also you know sportsmanship service and so on alignment with the the award okay so
Friday at 12: PM we'll do a check-in I'm going to look through the medals a little bit further I like the notebook idea for the teachers I don't know if anyone else has any different ideas there but I'll look at some of the medals so that that day I could share my screen um we can hopefully make a decision and then get that to Egypt so
we can get the order in what time 12 o' weing at I'm not a he sounds like an amazing person but if we look at the list and we still feel Esther is the person you would still get the we could still yeah
we could still go that way if we feel that that Esther is completely out of the race and no I don't think she's out but I think way one of the can we also have in
names I'll come up with something e I'll write up something or if you want to send me something um okay so moving on from that which we touch Bas Friday we're gonna move to Joe's treasur report which will answer the budget question I
forgot my question wanted to know like what budget we had how much money was available yeah um ladies and gentlemen this month we have like last month have z000 equipment computer for Egypt we spent
$6,050 for reimbursement we have $4,950 left for reimbursement meeting expenses we spent 2 236 2,3 $63 and that leaves us a balance of $5,399 we had PE card we spend $0 on PE
card we still have $500 left we got to figure out a way to spend it quickly uh we had 3,800 3 $3,870 at the beginning for supplies we spent $1,240 that leaves us a balance of
$2,530 um which we spend $90 on repair so we now have a zero balance so better make sure nothing breaks or nothing El bre let say we have more than enough to take from where we need it comes from the beanie expenses and the C and the
supplies yeah okay you kind of the C is like um more limited like small items yeah so like may maybe some like um but no we definitely have more than enough budget wise to pull from so I
think we're good there so thank you Joe now I know this was supposed to be on the calendar last month I don't know how far you guys got in this conversation but we do need to update our bylaws didn't get any okay we didn't have okay who is willing to step up and
be on a committee to help write did take Alvin I kind of passed with this yes I kind of assigned Alvin to kind of take lead on this and you have ismot who just volunteered so you guys can connect
however do we have one other person that wants to jump in there I mean I can help but I don't okay oh yeah I need some uh lawyer voice Joe do you have time to do this work on the bylaws with them no do you
have free time free time no she said nosier I Wasing used to say they didn't know how I manage the house in school so we'll leave it with the two of you guys for now finish the John I'll help out where I don't speak enough languages to be working
with enough languages so I do have a copy I of our most recent before you leave just touch B makes I have something second so moving away from that we have our people that are gonna
kind of work on that then you guys could present it and we'll go from there the next thing is the website we actually were talking about this before the meeting earlier uh Louis Egypt and I and we started Le started teaching Egypt how to use the gole
pages so I think we're going to be on the right track to not having to pay for a domain okay and I have access to it as well so I will be working with Egypt on it um so that project I'll take kind of
don't worry we working for yeah we're working on it because we need that website up and running in order to technically have hybrid meetings so so I'll take that on with Egypt um as a separate
project uh and there was one other thing so no I did the website it was something I just thought of that is it related to website no to no um okay I don't have anything else
then for now until I remember and then whatever but does anybody have any other new business I just want to make a a suggestion yes moving forward if we can have some uh meetings that's going to be more focused middle school and high
school because I know a lot of kids District 25 when they're going to middle school it's that time of you know they're anxious what do you mean by that because you mean the next calendar meeting well no I'm just saying like in the future like you know all C meetings
of District but maybe have like one meeting during the whole year just to talk about Middle School and High School you talking about like the the the transition for elementary school to middle school and transition and also um
with class size I know now with high schools Francis Lewis is like it's a it's a big number I don't know if if they're getting their receipts but I know that that's more of C cchs right
and not really the individual councils but I figure that you know maybe I mean I think in general you know conversation around um transition to middle and transition to high school is an important one um you know for for families I know it's always
a space of anxiety that comes up for um you know just the one the application process in and of itself always gets folks nervous I know we did do that this year at some point we did have someone come to talk to you guys as a cc about that um that we can always always do but
if there's something really specific around um around transition we can always bring people in to help support that I know it's always concerned um mostly from you know from our parents and less from kids kids once they get in there they know their thing and parents
are really nervous on the outside you know kids wind up M making you through I always joke that I always knew when my when my new six graders were in my school because they were walking One Direction backtracking going the other direction wrong Hall this Hall wrong classroom and you always
knew who they were the first day or two but after that it was like Smooth Sailing they didn't need anyone after the first day for the parents yeah preparation in terms of transition from one grade to next I didn't have a very good experience when my daughter
started sixth grade at District 95 I had find my way around ages 189 I made my place three years now but like you say that not all parents will take the three AG steps so yeah I
think it's more for parents yeah listen identify what it is that you that you're looking for and we can organize supports yes is there anything else even the beginning of the even before this maybe as a lead in to the start I mean I know
we tend to have an August meeting but I know not many people will come the best time to start the year off but I think AC only get like 500 students right like a month monior starting middle school or a month prior starting
High School orientation student taking so I don't know necessarily that we have to mandate a day specific dat because what what our schools what our schools do offer um is a space of
orientation they all create an opportunity for incoming six to hear that um is as a parents that school doesn't have my email address I I speak from personal experience I had to um
call and hang out at JHS 189 just to find out when can I speak to somebody and find out where I'm going only then to find out that they had something for parents but the mass email or whatever
did not get to it because I was still not part of the heo community for ghs 189 so so maybe if the schools have it the communication is broken especially as a new parent I speak from the
experience um so I didn't know this been something to look at which year was this which year which school ghs 189 189 yes that's where my daughter yeah I mean listen I I think I think all of it's awkwarded I can't
speak to individual experiences and how one got information versus another uh schools do offer it what we can look at is how do we make sure that it's publicized well enough for all those uh that need to know no you know from our elementary schools going into the into
the middle um you know I liken even technology today to what's becoming the new bottom of the school bag is now what we see in the emails the countless emails that we have and sometimes they're ones that we don't necessarily always receive I know it myself just as
a dad my own kids and the things messages that come from school sometimes I'm so that so beyond thankful that my wife does a better job than me of looking at uh all the things that do come in so I think it's creating multiple ways of making sure that the information is accessible uh to ensure
that there is access um to it so but that's something that we can talk about but all of our schools do create orientation opportunities for families so that they know what's going on the next year but if it's a communication thing we have to we can work on that because their website wasn't working I
don't think it's working now I can tell I can share with you what my school used to do they get like a what is it list notice with kids name uh email address and all that they send an email for that email address but the problem is some of
them don't read English and some have the some of their friends email address because they don't speak English because the friend the friend doesn't tell them I'll give you an example of what one of the schools did that was actually quite a hit and I'm hoping others wind up picking up on it but um you know one of
them called it popsicles in the park and all of the kids you know all of the newcoming kids were invited to have an ice pop you got to come and meet all of the you know a variety of teachers they had all kinds of activities and events in the schoolyard served as an entry into the building so families can get to know who the building leaders were who
the teachers were um and more importantly just gives you a good feel of community so there's a range of those types of things they have he did car he does carnivals yeah every year however that was not communicated to the new parents of the sixth
grade so I joined PTA specifically to make sure that the other parents don't go through that um and it's helped but I'm saying for me when I had to go in sixth grade I did not have that opportunity no I hear you that was not
communicated on their website um there was no mass email that went out I receive all my emails and I look at them there was no mass email there was no information on the New York City School website um like they have it now with high schools whatever you go on there
they'll tell you there's a when the open hous is out there it's it's on the ham it wasn't there yeah so those are things that we could even share here when they're when they're hosting them um and make it available in a variety of different ways so what my my point to
you is is that um one way doesn't always work either you know so it's making that sure that there is a variety of different entry points for it yeah is there a requirement for school to like keep up on like keep the social media like a Instagram or like I
know like our elementary school do a great job with it I wish my our Middle School do more I mean I think that you know no there's not a there's not a social media requirement that they have to have uh but but having said that is
it something that could be brought up to schools and say how do we build upon this 100% yeah I find that a lot about what's happening in other schools from from the social media social I mean we would I just pointed out Mike actually ps79 got toos
too and it was a whole big deal like they've made an Instagram post about it so they had a whole they had yeah they have a turbo b in every room com night but that's how you got the job there for from social media like I I sent it to my teacher friend yes please let the all come but
yeah no there's not necessarily a requirement there are right there are guidelines but not a requirement that you must have yes yeah and I know it's hard because there's a lot to you know you really need like to hire someone to do it it could really be a full-time
thing to get all that information out um and some of the schools are just so like our elementary school are so creative what they're doing like and I know 79 is really creative social media output well you know I think some of that also becomes a space of of competitive fund among principles
when one person's posting something they want to be able to you know right add in the fun yeah but yeah no there's not necessarily a requirement but I do think that um when it's limited and you believe like it should be more that's a real space for conversation at SLT
School level yeah um you know 100% some are very much better at it than than others there's no doubt about that yeah yeah yeah but it's fun when they're good at it yeah it's fun yeah so the other thing that I wanted to
bring up in new business is we did have our CC election candidate Forum during the president's council meeting um and we have 32 candidates only 12 I think were actually on four of us being
in the room right now um but elections are start starting soon so just share the word out to everybody so that we get more people to vote this year and tell them to go on and like look at the forums listen to what people said there there were some really great people I
feel like that I really enjoyed hearing what they had to say um and it was like it was new voices like from different schools all over the district and I mean we're we're losing more than half the people at least right now and hopefully some of us will be returning but we
don't know what the election is going to break so really getting the word out there I think is crucial um so that we can kind of and one of our schools will be hosting kind of a um an event to encourage the folks in the community to get out there and
vote um which will be held at ps32 I don't remember the date did Jenny share that date with you so it's kind of like um CC voting party kind of thing to encourage families from the community to come in uh and participate uh that I can share with you it's the the date is not
ringing in my head right now for some reason but um something to make it a little bit enjoyable get more as many people out to vote as possible um because it's important parent voice is really important so
yeah just um does anybody else have any other new business because I can't remember the other item that I had thanks M there you go Dr Mike she's so funny um okay so we will do our check-in
Friday at 12 so we can hopefully look at these names make a decision um I was just talking to char she's going to take a look at the metals and the plaques and things like that kind of help us narrow down while I'm helping Egypt work on the website and then we have our Vos group working as well so we can kind of hopefully tackle
all this before the year ends and before the term is up and we don't have everyone here so I haven't discussed it with my partner yes but I'm assuming that he will have the same thought um I have the template can read and if
something stands out to the rest of the team that you would like us to take a close look at so the one thing that I will say is we have to talk about hybrid meetings already written down but apart from the hybrid meting if there's anything else in the B that
you should closely take a look at please let us know and we were talking about for the bylaws the the number between in person and like hybrid and things like that so there always needs to be um seven in person in order for the person who's
online to be able to join we need to make sure it states that correctly um the question is that you want to state there is why are people joining right actually that brings up what I was gonna do I remember now what I had to
do in person unless there is extern and what the circumstances would be that we that's what we need to come up with I mean but with that brings up the other item that I did want to bring up one
thing you guys weren't able to vote on last month is these extenda circumstances for the fact that is not was not here due to a religious observance I was not here because I was in tech week for a show so stop them we need to actually stop not now we need to
actually vote to approve them as approved absences going forward so anytime somebody's going to be absent we do have to make that vote um so I'm just going to do for both of us all at once rather than make you guys vote twice so if you could just call everyone's name
out so we can get a just make a column on that um just so we can get it approved and put in writing that we were approved or not approved for the ex yes you approve ory of me and
is can we see the note again for your mother I can show you the pictures from the show cvin is there an abstain for this no the reason no reason why I'm saying this is because we're doing the Bibles right yes
so if we do a vote tonight then the bylaws is going to be a problem moving forward if we're going to change the template on the on the BS I think then we should I AG because if we do something tonight it's going to be hard for the B no bylaws are going to take
effect after that so that's not going to have any effect on it so what are your current bylaw for um six hours prior notice there shall be no proxy or absentee voting
um president a secretary needs to be notified um that says any member who fails to attend three meetings could be vacating there spot which we've run into previously uh excuses for absence death of a relative funeral serious illness or injury manory
Court intendance jury duty military duty job related conflict but it doesn't say anything further really so what you would do is vote on the absence in accordance with these bylaws and these bylaws State like the abses right so if
you want to vote on those now if your absences are not importantance with one of those Li relations then they're considered on if you want to wait so you amend your bylaws and go on your assen make sure you're including what you miss because you had family I
don't know that's no neither was religion yeah so then yeah which religious observance obviously they should never be iose I propose if it's in the we have to vote whether we
approve or not it's not in thew so what happens any meting with um and they're not exclus absences you can remove them from the council oh so we're saying we excuse you
because it's not specifically noted as an excuse wait so even if it is in the bylaws you still have to vote and say yes this is in the bylaw so it's approved why bylaw say thatw have to vot on the and if it's one
of these reasons then you can vote it's not one I don't remember that it says there should be no proxy or absentee voting it doesn't say we have to vote but there's nothing actually saying about voting on The abses that's probably
the that I haveen my bag also but because if we have to vote on I was AB too I don't think we have to vote but you emailed with notice about a work conflict right but that's she's saying you have to even if it's included which I forgot you were the other one so then so then it should be an approved ABS so
they should all go yes it's approved yeah I know yeah I understand what you're saying like what's the need to vote if it's already in there so just we got the notice of theti like I gave him like I'm not be here this like we knew like way in advance these people I think that's
where the questions really coming in but so I don't think we need to vote but for like you know for the purpose of time I think it's faster to just vote that to book to the BW right now but I'll pull it up in the manual while you guys just so I show you but um it it's a procedure
thing right it's parliamentary procedure that you have to vote on absences um if it's in the bylaws you should vote Yes you shouldn't vote no someone votes no then you can have a debate about why they're voting no if it's in b so we should put in the new
[Laughter] we my Sugg to you're right though is that situations like these like what they're giving us doesn't make sense each member is given 24 months of their time to come to these meetings they're
at least allow two out of two years if they're not even allowed two years just go on hybrid then what the point of getting parents to come to CC that's why we're doing the bylaws that's why we're doing the bylaws we're changing it yeah but we're going to vote on it right now
it means that we're saying that it's fine what they're saying in the previous BS because we're changing it what we do now is not going to affect the new byos it has no effect on what we do in the future so in the future we could say hey as long as they gave notice in this excused time frame and it's a legit
excused absence we don't need to vote on that that could be the wording that we put in there but that has no effect on the voting now that's what that's what it technically doing so it has no effect on what changes you make to the bylaws because once you're done writing things you're going to bring it back to us and
we're going to fall vote to approve the bylaws if that play hopefully but it doesn't make any effect on the voting tonight I vote to approve my app well he said yes I said yes so I manual
yes yes shle yes yes okay well Mar gonna read us something real quick and then we can for minutes you do not need to vote on minutes got it so you're not really
voting on the minutes if someone notices something's wrong um minutes are approved so it's not really like taking our V minut seriously I taking V so I was told can we make a motion to a
tovin 857 thank you guys thank you I'm gonna follow up you'll see a couple of um followups for me one about the don't leave