have graduations at East River Academy um but nonetheless an amazing amazing experience they they did all of the amazing things to get to I mean you can imagine the things that they had to go through just to be able to graduate and
so I just want to say that here and um applaud them publicly for for all of their hard work um and then I want to pass it on to Jessie yes please excuse me for a second so now live stream wants to work so we are being live streamed so
everybody wants I said let me try again and we not a hitch now it's on so okay so sorry about that so just know you're being recorded um yes and for those of you that have that are following us on Instagram um you you will hear some of
the some of that some of the some of what I said on Instagram um because we we were meeting with our flc's yesterday um for a a second annual enrichment day where they were here at Tweed and they were just having um a moment to
themselves so that they can rejuvenate and re um reignite for the next year and um part of that was you know let's think about how important this work is because there are children who are in spaces like East River Academy uh that I was
able to to speak with but I also was able to go home and they don't get to go home and so it's really important that we continue to honor um the the tremendous effort of all of the Educators there the tremendous effort of all of the students that attend um and
and their accomplishments and to continue to support our children in our schools uh so that they they can continue to thrive in in our spaces um so with that I'm going to pass it over to Jesse who has
more thank you Christina and uh just wna um one just re-echo what uh Dr melenda said with regards to just our thankfulness for for your work and your support members of cek as we get to the end of another school calendar year I
just want to let you know how much we admire um your dedication and your support of All Families throughout the city um it is you know I know you work very hard in doing so and just wanted to underscore what Dr Melinda said also wanted to also share um that just with
regards to East River Academy um uh I definitely encourage everyone to look at the Instagram posts that are on there um because they're very inspirational um I just wanted just to say um you know to to Dr Melendez is is it's part of her
leadership you know ever since she took over FaZe she's been very conscious of ensuring that we don't forget about any student and uh has developed very strong Partnerships with District 79 and District 75 so her attendance um and her
keynote yesterday today was just another example of her commitment and our office's commitment to ensure that all students voices are heard so I applaud you uh Christina um um for from what I hear I was an extraordinary um address
that you gave yesterday uh so I also want to share just a few other updates um this Saturday uh we are having our next big book party uh June 15th uh part of our overall strategy with regards to
NYC reads is we uh as as many of you know and there are participants of our ambassador um cohorts here um that we have that we've had NYC reads Ambassador cohorts we had NYC reads hubs and we also have book giveaway so our next big
book party is June 15th at the Bronx library center uh on East Kingsbridge Road I will drop all of this uh in the chat uh so that everyone can can see but it is a celebration of literacy and community and there are going to be books for families um so we really
encourage everybody to take part also wanted to thank uh districts 23 and districts 11 uh our last two Town Halls of this school calendar year were in uh on District 23 on May 30th and just this
past week uh on Tuesday uh June 11th we had our final um in District 11 with CC1 both Town Halls went extraordinarily well I wanted to thank all of the parents and parent leaders in both of those respective districts and we look forward to another successful um Town
Hall season next year as we start again to to uh plan our town halls for the districts but I wanted to thank all the districts uh think close to 20 town halls I think we did this year uh and uh really appreciate and and admire all of the um efforts and support of all of our
our district leaders in making those Town Hall successful um this past Tuesday um our office had a convening with faith-based leaders uh we have been working very closely with faith-based leaders wanting to develop um collaborations with them um particular
around NYC reads trying to see if we can establish hubs um um with you know in some faith-based um institutions and working more closely uh with our Community Partners because as we know um working with our students and families is a community effort is it is multiple
stakeholders multiple supports and our faith-based leaders are very important part of the community so we had a very good conversation with them uh this past Tuesday and looking to explore more ways that we can collaborate uh Dr melendes mentioned uh yesterday's FLC FSC
enrichment day uh at Tweed uh definitely you know another one of our partners that we work very closely with and are essential in being able to provide our support to our families so it was definitely a very good day um you know in learning a broad range of emotional
skills to provide a safe space to emotionally connect and support with one another um this work as we know is is very personal to all of us it can be very you know emotionally you know um challenging at times because some of the things that we witness and see and support our families with so to have a
day where we focused on emotional health and wellness is exceedingly important so we uh can't say enough about our flc's and fses and look forward to our continued work with them and uh La last two things are we've um included a series of professional developments that
were based on financial literacy uh and I wanted to take a moment to also thank the citywi council and high schools for their collaboration we had a financial literacy professional development focused on high school students um and
we had believe a couple of sessions where we had high school students participate in in learning more about financial literacy um we also had our General Sessions um on financial lit as well but wanted to give a special thanks to the Citywide Council and high schools for their support in the financial
literacy that was based uh that was focused on our high school students uh and lastly um just more just an an acknowledgement of this past June first that we had our ambassador uh graduation so as we mentioned we've had um um
several NYC reads Ambassador cohorts that we um um went through the science of reading a 10-week course in the science of reading some of our ambassadors are on on uh um on this meeting right now and it was wonderful um and and it went you know very very
well and we wanted just to once again congratulate our ambassadors and we look forward to the work ahead and with that said I I believe Christina I think that was everything yes thank you um co-chairs for giving us the floor and we put our Instagram on there um because all of
these stories have have been personified in in our Instagram awesome thank you we're going to move on to one green apple we have Joe uh
frony and Danielle Bas to present on their mission again we had them maybe two school years ago or last school year um they coming to give us some updates so um Joe you have the floor thank
you um I'm just share I'm changing the share does everyone see the um the slide Advanced Family engagement in our schools yes okay I just wanted to make sure you know technology these days um thanks Charlie we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you this
morning um as some of you may remember uh we initially presented the CPAC last year just one year back at the main meeting today I want to give you an update make an introduction and request your uh continued partnership simil as you saw a little bit earlier
similar to this month's theme our mission is to strengthen the parent teacher voice however we go further correlating family engagement efforts um to student achievement this important step validates family engagement changes the Paradigm and is and is the basis and
will be the basis for increased resources um I thought I would kind of just go real highlight about who we were or what we did just to re just because I know there's a lot of new people um a lot of people are familiar with communication systems such as a remind and Class Dojo the problem with these
systems is that they're teacher Centric and only focus on the teacher parent relationship we're a little bit different we're family focused um we we we give you the information you want not just what the school wants to to give
you and also because it's not just the teacher uh family relationship but you also have a lot of other resources within the school district family engagement coordinator uh Community Based organizations even diit and if we go even one step further you even got more people involved the
principal the district administrators besides the teachers you've got guidance counselors coaches um Home Room teachers uh you know um faculty advisers Etc what we plan to do or what we do is we communicate and analyze and provide
support for everybody so that with all these lines it's almost like it's a safety net for families um I thought I would just give a quick one minute demo just so that people see what we're talking about because it just to refresh what we were doing
um where is it screen two [Music] um okay it should be up there wait a minute H screen too I'm
sorry here we go as you can see this look this is a buildup this is what it would look like on your on your iPhone basically um here wait a minute there we go um this is me logging in for the first time
I would get a tile of each one of my kids when I click on the tile I would get tiles of each one of her classes colored green based upon how she's doing yellow or red but every child's different my daughter's not the greatest athlete I just want her to pass JY but she loves reading she should be at the
top of her class history we can besides looking at the grades we can look at her based upon our expectations of based upon her abilities and when I do this I get happy faces where expectations are met sad were they're not and how many times have you said well what's going on in that class with this we can click on
the classroom and bring up the entire class Alias we can't tell you who they are this is completely Burpa um what um safe if you will and it shows all the greens all the yellows and then the Reds and I can see how my child fits in with
the rest of the class is this too easy is this too hard I also going to see how the entire class is doing and that's important if parent satisfactions based upon meeing expectations we can also look at the entire class that way where we can see happy fac with expectations are met sad where they're not in Gray
circles where there's family engagement now as you've seen you haven't seen any numbers which is great behind the scenes we can take the grade point average where the parents are engaged versus where they're not and show that Delta that value of family engagement even to the classroom level I now want to talk
to the teacher now it becomes that same messaging system where B we dynamically translate teacher sends a note in English parent receives it in Spanish Bengali their native tongue they answer it in their native tongue it goes back to English for the teacher we down at the bottom we show common messages
because a lot of times parents don't know what to ask and this is exactly what this is about and this would be in your native tongue including the last one I have an issue and I need a translator and that is my um one one minute demo to give you an idea of what we were talking
about so what's our update basically we presented back in May and because of your support we were able to meet with K Lloyd staff in June uh because of both endorsements between Canada and uh CPAC we met with the deputy CIO and they were
very excited especially some of the stuff we're doing with community- based organizations and then um the CIO resigned and there wasn't anybody to sign as anything else and as you guys apparently are familiar with diat things have been hold unhold until the new CIO
was appointed in March um and now we're positioned ready to move forward and that's why we need your help one of the first things we did is I hired a representative our regional manager Daniel bayz and um Dan do you want to speak real quick of course uh thank you
thank you Joe and uh thank you CPAC um just briefly about myself and who I am and what I do uh uh I was a a District 3 Dean for a bunch of years I was a teacher before that I also have um kids in the district I have a 16-year-old who actually goes to my former School Beacon
high school downtown um so I'm very much in the community still have like the heart and spirit of a teacher but a couple years ago I did move over uh to the private sector was working for a company called Yonder uh there was a product product I used at my own school
really really believed in it perfected it and it was sort of this U I guess this belief that was a prerequisite for me doing anything outside of Education which is where my heart will always be right um this belief in the product led me to be really really successful I was just kind of like a partner at every school I went
to I I led with that Spirit um and honestly this is what has bought me full circle to to one green apple I met Joe I think Joe was a a district four a principal meeting where I had uh I just presented told my story and met Joe he
told me about what he was doing and I like instantly believed in it you know having used every single system Under the Sun on both sides as a parent um and as an educator I I knew that there there was a hole there and everything Joe was
talking about it just resonated with me so for me over the next few months of getting to know Joe and brainstorming and and just you know picking away at his idea to perfected uh it was all about how can we make this better and I feel like we've landed at something
uh you know I say we very I mean Joe Joe has landed on something very brilliant that I think really shakes up this uh parent Dynamic and and the just shifts the whole Paradigm to like what Joe said making it about family and like
Community everyone um and just kind of creates a Synergy between school community and parents in a way that um that no other program really does uh so what's next uh Joe mentioned uh we need partners um you know he's hired me um I
want you guys to know that I'm here in this city I'm one of you I I go into schools you know I listen I I learn I make bad jokes hopefully you'll laugh at but really at the end of the day what I'm trying to do is is move the ball forward and improve what you guys are
doing and I'll just end there um hello we can hear you okay sorry I'm having some some tech issues and I I guess I'll just wrap up on there it was nice to meet you all um I I was uh uh really struck by what Dr melendes was
talking about like community that really resonated with me so I just want to thank all you guys and thank you for what you do uh like I mentioned I have kids and so like I really am appreciative of you guys meeting once a month and you know putting your great minds together to like just improve you
know what it is you do so mushas gracias appreciate you all and I hope to meet you in person great um just real quick um just to follow up what are the next steps well we need test sites we'd like to pile it in your community we need to uh socialize our Concepts and are happy
to speak with interested schools invite us to speak at your DT meetings um CEC meetings Etc um don't be shy please contact if you're interested um here we go and lastly if you see at the bottom there is Daniel's direct information
both his cell number and his email address and um if there's any other questions you know we're happy to answer them I know the uh the chancellor is about to come on so we'll leave now um but as I said um follow up with us uh there's if you need additional
information I can give some things to Shirley to pass out to all the DT uh members uh or the CPAC members but we we thank you for your uh support and um let's see if we can't get it done this year thank you thank you guys awesome
thank you awesome I don't see Chancellor quite yet anybody has any want any questions real quick until the chancellor come on I heard in hand okay District n oh we got a few I'm gonna get Adriana wait when she I'm gonna let Adriana speak and
then Priscilla your question thank you so much Shirley hello and thank you both Joe and Daniel quick question I love that you have automatic um translation interpretation services for messages is there any chance or any future planning um for AI development to
translate any flyers or any um PDFs that go through the app I know that for our school our teachers are very diligent we're in Queens um our teachers are very diligent about translating um as many of their Flyers as they can but using something like an
AI translator would be much more helpful do you guys have plans for that thank you um I no but there's other people who would actually we're focused on family engagement tied to uh student achievement and attendance I mean think about this from the uh Chancellor's
level if you will um he's responsible for two things fiscal responsibility and student performance and um as long as and in that light family engagement is only a tool to improve student performance as long as it's fiscally responsible that's what we're about how
do we start bringing in that real meat and metrics to make things work so our Focus really has been on the parents and uh all that stuff however I if we want to talk otherwise I can tell you all kinds of different services that someone would be able to use um Google keeps
getting better and better quite frankly and that might be the cheapest alternative for you thank you and Priscilla I thank you so much also will there be a fee Associated I know it's a pilot program but will a fee be um yes
let me Che real quick I'm going to give you the idea of the financials this is a cost of about a dollar this is to the district not to you or to the school but basically we charge a dollar a month so that's $12 a year per student so if we had a 500 student school I would be
charging um $6,000 right but if we increase attendance by just 1% that's five kids and I like 25 Grand that the School receives the district receives per student or the School receives that's like $125,000 for that $6,000 investment so it makes
Financial sense both for the schools the districts for us um you got to have sustainable change uh through a market driven initiative if it's just a grant it's you're you're you're pleading every year how to get things done so that's why we're a little bit different awesome thank you so much for
joining our platform we do have the chancellor on with us um right now so I'm well the Chan I'm going to introduce the ch chor but I'm going to share the slides anyway we have our New York City public school Chancellor David C banks with us
and his team to give us some updates ask us some questions to have a conversation um what's going on with New York City public schools at this time Chancellor B hey there hey shy how are you thank you I'm good yep and uh to
everybody that's on I hope that you all have had a uh had a good year I think there's been a lot of things that have been going on throughout this year and um was excited I think you know two and a half years into this Administration we've done a lot of good things and uh I
think we all uh should be proud of the fact that we are on the right track on a lot of issues so excited about it and then anxious to hear what people have to say and questions that folks uh folks have we're getting ready to close out another successful school year
okay so that's the chesa's way say he want to hear what you have to say please raise your hand so put it in the chat uh if you have any questions and I know you have questions um I see Pita put something in the chat um Peace and D4 okay in the
house so rashita letting you know that she's here we saw you thank you rashita Eddie body had nobody has questions for the chancellor they gota have questions yes have any questions um Char I'll I'll um I'll start go ahead go ahead thank
you Banks um we had asked you in the beginning of the school year I'm sorry to bring this up I know everybody's gonna well some people gonna be happy about it um these doe emails for parent leaders we had asked for a pause because
they weren't diit was not prepared we've met with them several times this year um trying to make it better we were working with them we thought we were collaborating everything was going well right we haven't heard from them since the last meeting we asked for a few things that would make it easier for us
to continue and they still don't have it together we're asking to just stop it and not continue changing over it's not broke it doesn't need fixing can we just not even a pause can we just discontinue the the change over of these email
addresses to these doe external accounts anybody on our team want to respond to this this has been coming off for months now who's got a response good morning Randy good morning everyone how are you um that's sure I was just looking to see if Helen was on I know she's been working so closely
with with you Randy and I even helped you troubleshoot one day um is Helen on or or Christina do you have an update they are not not on they were meant to be on which I think is part of the frustration but they were their their vacation schedule sort of took
hold of I they may have overlooked their vacation schedule and CPAC meeting um and and the update is is simply that the change is scheduled but it is not officially happening until certain things are covered so they are still working on those things I know it is a
really change is hard um and difficult all of the time and I know that the team here at CPAC has been working very diligently with the to really open their eyes to some of the details and nuances of having this account these accounts like the bank
accounts being attached to them there's a lot of layers to switching the emails it's not like um a a a Turn the Page and just move on and so we've been trying to close the loops theit has been trying to close the loop on some of these these things and learn alongside of CPAC
around you know what are parent leaders using these accounts for and why is it really tricky to just change them over night um I think another highlight it has been um trying to troubleshoot around asking for I identification information right they're asking for a
driver's license number and stuff and so those are just things that internally we're working to think about other ways to get the information without having that be the information and so what I want to say is that It's Tricky but they are being you are being heard very
clearly on our side and we are working to see how do we get to the changes so that we can Safeguard the system as well as um provide you with the supports that you need your Nuance accounts Randy Randy feels very differently Randy goad
yes tell me we we've met with them several times and it's very disappointing because every time a question comes up or something it's just coincidental that they don't show up to our meeting and we've been quiet about it and just trying to work behind the scenes about it but this just seems
really unfair to leaders we've gotten used to a way of working you know and we we pivot we pivot around everything we're very flexible where it comes to parent leadership and working with you know New York City Public Schools but at this point and we did have a change where they did change our email accounts
and they merged us over and everything went pretty smoothly this time having a year to make the changes and they're still not there parent coordinators are still struggling flc's and F fscs still struggling or whoever the Spock is in
the school things aren't working correctly technical support they're they're disconnected and it's just yep so here's what we're gonna do um I'm G ask my team organize a meeting I I hate I hate doing this because this
is like a this is not um this is not the way it's supposed to work um but I have to be involved now right um uh kenita are you on you there yes I'm here can we
can we organize a meeting with diit and I Want Randy in the meeting I want other parent leaders who feel the same way I need them to be in the meeting this is one I've kind of left other folks to handle I've not leaned into this but this has been coming up like every me every meeting for like a
year and what what what I just heard was a bureaucratic answer so I I I need an answer that is a real answer you're going to do it or we're not going to do it if it's comp too complicated to do then we like so now I have to be involved can you guys can you organize a meeting uh within the
next two weeks for me with the parent leaders so I don't have to have be asked this question at every meeting for a year I I'm really and I'm gonna figure out where the Gap was of why this is not something that's been resolved already it's extremely
disappointing even if it's not resolved the way it's being explained does not pass muster for me thank you ch need somebody from diit to come and explain the levels of the complexity and then either we do it or we don't do it we fix it we do like
whatever but uh this should not be an issue for a year that's not the way that I work I'll tell you that uh can we I need you to set up I'm G make a note of it a meeting within the next two weeks thank you Chancellor we will
Chancellor we'll yes I said yes we will okay I just want to add that that um Deputy chancell Lloyd and um director Christina Melendez executive director Christina Melendez has been very helpful through this process in coordinating and
and helping us to work with diit it's not it's not your people at face viit I feel like they really just dropped the bull it's not no I get it I get it that's that's what I'm saying I don't know who dropped it and I understand I appreciate what you're saying I I have no idea I have not
leaned enough these kind of things that come up that I kind of turn to the team and say would you guys work and resolve this and these things generally resolve some take a little longer than others but you've been bringing this up Randy for a year and that's why I'm sitting here going I don't even understand this is this issue that complicated that we
are a year later and it's still not resolved one way or the other parents are fine even if it turns out that we can't do what they want us to do as long as they know we've tried our best and it's just not going to work but this is almost still we're working on it we're
trying it's complicated blah blah blah that doesn't work for me and maybe because I don't know enough about what it the intricacies of what this is that's what I'm saying let's get the dit people in front of me as well with them because I want to hear this now directly so I can be clear about what the
challenge is I would have preferred if this did not have to be going on for a year well now I have to take time to do this but that's what we got to do thank you we will do that we will do that Randy thank you so we're going to shift the conversation
since uh I see everybody's in agreement with this um we will um so I'm going to read the question or the statement in the chat we would like to bring up our concerns over the remote login Day on June 6th to test the emergency system
for its capacity we know many students when unable to log in due to prior engagements or chose not to this is not an accurate picture of testing the system our question to the chancellor is wouldn't it be more accurate picture of
everyone logging in at the same time if this test was done during school hours typic typically there is at least 95% attendance daily why not run this test at 9:00 a.m. on a school day hold on I
have to scroll down I I get I get the point is Emma on yeah Chancellor hey Chancellor V yeah just speak about some of the some of the complexities of that because those are some of the same questions that I asked but there are reasons why it could not
be done that way go ahead Emma so first of all thank you very much Shirley and thank you all for the question and um we appreciate folks who could participate last week and we also very much understand why many could not um it was fully optional and that is totally fine
so I want to start by saying a couple of things I think one of the things we've learned is we need to get good at testing our system in multiple different ways and testing IBM's login system as well as our other tools but the IBM login is where like a lot of the heat
hits for us right and so as a result we have been working on testing in a couple of different ways the best testing we're doing of the actual ability of the IBM system and our system to handle a million concurrent logins is actually
performance testing technical testing we do behind the scenes where we force the system to its capacity and its limit because that's the way we can test something that isn't even real right it's even harder than what's real and that's Bas and that's industry standard
by the way like if you think about Black Tuesday the way oh my God Black Friday the way they test Black Friday is not by telling everybody to log on in the whole world the day before it's that they do technical performance testing of their systems prior to that and so the work we've been doing since February and
IBM's doing since February is to do that behind the scenes performance testing that really pushes our systems to the Limit and that's been happening and based on that behind the scenes testing we feel good about where our systems are at this moment if we actually needed to Pivot to remote but that's just one part
of the test we also wanted to continue to test um students having devices at home students ability to log on from home staff ability to log on from wherever they are and so that's why we thought it was also important to do a remote test not not a mandatory one but
a remote test that allowed people to log in from where they would be if they're up for it and ask them to log into our systems in that way and look at the human behavior side from that side we're GNA I will say as we go into next year one of the things the Chancellor's asked us to do is continue to think about testing in multiple different ways so
your feedback is heard and as we look towards next year and think about our um simulation but also behind the scenes performance testing we'll be looking at various ways but that's one of that's sort of one piece of the answer um in terms of why we did it this way but welcome the feedback we heard it
from many and we'll keep an eye on it by the way uh chair Au and this is Dan um of course in a remote day you would not have a million kids logging in from the school they'd be home so
nothing is perfect you know the there's not a perfect way to do this but that's one of the reasons why you wouldn't do it everybody from school it wouldn't test all the conditions that kids would be under on a real real remote day but it's a it's a great
question yeah it's no real way it's no real way to fully simulate this and pressure test it as though you know this was the way we were really doing it I think Dan is absolutely right it wouldn't be happening from school I mean that's the complete opposite of what you
do when you have an emergency snowstorm schools were closed everybody's now home now does your system work which was the issue that we dealt with wasn't had nothing to do with kids being in school to do this um and simulating this in a
real way is is very difficult you can't simulate it um as a practice run lot of unless it's in real time PR parents like I don't have time to stay home while you do this um you know so you do as much as you possibly can one of the things I
think we did realize from before and working with our Tech Partners IBM and others is that we're not it's probably not best to try to log on almost a people all at one time anyway so to have kind of some staggered openings um getting our elementary school kids logged on and maybe 40 minutes later
getting our middle school kids logged on and then our high school kids so that's the kind of stuff we're looking at I think one of the things that overloaded the whole system was everybody all the same time basically at one time trying to come on um was a little bit of a challenge and probably not necessary to
do anyway so this is stuff that we're looking at no perfect Sy system but uh the main goal is that our Tech Partners feel um with the right uh staggering we should be fine uh next time we have an emergency awesome saw your I saw your
hand Adriana you answer your question got answered or comment event yep sorry is that a yes yeah she got a thumbs up all right um some of the stuff is back on the diit I have a question
well I don't have a question I would like I try I'm going to try to make a suggestion um we BR we talked about a little bit in um last month right and um first Deputy um chancelor weburg and um
DC Lloyd chimed in a little bit and we talk about the climate of of that's going on right now and you have addressed it in different occasions I think it would be
beneficial that maybe I know that the staff goes through impartial and some of the education councils but I think maybe all the families need to go through um biases um Prejudice I forgot I can't
think of the word training right uh everyone every stakeholder should be going through this because everybody's is participating or adding to the kind of toxic environment and right now part
of it is parent leadership is being hurt right getting volunteers because they don't want to deal with all this nonsense right you can't disagree agreeably at in a lot of instances we um parent leaders are getting bullied if
the others don't get their way right um whether it's against other stakeholders or parents and families among themselves um we need to really um encourage to really change this environment before it hits a peak because it's we're here
because of the children and I don't understand myself because I'm kind of disappointed with the city as a whole it's about the kids it's not about us right we don't have to always get our way and it's about collaboration We
There is diversity this is New York City and we have been succeeding in on this for the longest time I think everybody needs to understand like especially politics religion ethnicity is is not about that
it shouldn't be a a foundation on how we deal with each other is about our schools we should be representing our schools we should be representing our children right culture yes we supposed to learn about everybody's culture but
it we shouldn't be at attacking because we're not the same religion or we're not the same ethnicity or we're not the same race to become um not amicable right I I would love to see that all of us go
through um or a reminder that listen we're here together it's okay for us not to agree and do it in a spirit of amical be amical we don't have to you know in the old days we would say we don't have to go to our M right you know attack
back in our M this is where it's going to like as soon as you disagree you're being labeled or or harassed or uh doxing Vans is being sent to the schools is I think it's getting out of control
at this point so I think that's well noted I will tell you um since I've become Chancellor Shirley um it's probably been the most disappointing thing for me in this job has been just um kind of the
behavior of adults um that I've witnessed um and I still have to deal with and investigate yeah kids do silly things and they get in trouble for stuff and they're kids you sign up for that you recognize that I don't think I fully recognize um the immaturity of the
adults of so many adults that takes up so much of my time of adults who who who just behave badly and then everybody says what are you going to do about a Chancellor you know what I mean so so um um you know I've got a I've got a lot of
issues that we got to deal with I'm G do the best that I the best that I can but getting some training for as many folks as possible is what I hear you saying um and uh and we'll do the best that we can some of this implicit bias training that
we do with our staff um would be great for uh families as well um we have a lot of very toxic issues that we have to navigate our way through and um so we'll keep pushing keep doing that but let me
take a look at that with our folks and find out you know those trainings are pretty extensive and uh figuring out ways to get as many parents trained is not easy but uh let us take a look at that for sure thank you um I have a I I have an issue uh that I wanted to raise I think
that came up recently but that's the issue around uh phones in schools and um this is a book you know I always say what are you reading right we should all be reading we should be talking about reading when we kick off these meetings we should say what are people reading this is what I'm reading I've already
just actually finished it the anxious generation it's by a guy named Jonathan hate and he is um he is a a New York City Public School parent uh two kids in our schools he's a journalist and he just wrote a a really you know big and
important book um it looks like it's on his way to becoming a New York Times bestseller what people are talking about he's all over in the news his last name is hate h AI DT or I don't know if it's pronounced hate or height uh but um but Jonathan is
his first name I would invite you to just check it out he's been all over social media you can hear some of his conversations even if you haven't had an opportunity to read the book um but he talks about how the mental health of our
kids has been so severely impacted um in an epidemic of mental health issues and there's a lot of reasons for it um but he makes great recommendations in the book as well to parents um to
school systems to community to policy makers and and others but the big suggestion that he makes in his book as relates to us is that uh uh clearly like we should we should be removing the phones from schools um and he cites with
very explicit data the impact of phones in schools and what it has created um for kids has been very little that's been good about it uh we certainly can't control I certainly can't control what kids do in your house
as a parent you you set your own rules or whatever it is that you're going to do some and some parents are completely overwhelmed even with their own children that they don't even know like they've lost control um the kids are now clinically addicted to
phones and they're up all hours of the night they're not just talking to friends some of them are on the internet and engaging with people sometimes parents have no idea who who the kids are even engaged with on these phones it is it is it is bad it's really bad our
New York City Health doctor has been a big supporter of this Dr ban the social media impact um but I'm going tell you over the last three weeks weeks or a month or so I've talked to several hundred principles now every
single principal that I've spoken to has said the same thing when I said should we take the phones out of the schools every single one had said not only yes absolutely hell yes like it is creating problems in our schools that you
probably can't even imagine Chancellor they're talking about the mental health challenges The Bullying that takes place another parent is talking about the uh not parent the principal was talking about the safety they're talking about safety issues Len when you see all these fights and all
the stuff that's happening after school and the meetups and people are coming from one school it's all happening through the phones but the phone is the tool that kids are creating this mechanism for all the confrontation that is taking place kids are living for the likes I need to be liked I need to be
liked I need to be liked on the phone and I spoke to um I spoke to a uh CC 11 in the Bronx two nights ago and just set it out there to a few hundred parents that were there and said what do you
think overwhelmingly the parents said take the phones take the phones like we can I'm telling you we see it it's a major problem I've been I've been a little surprised at how overwhelming the response has been I've
been I've spoken in several different churches across the city I generally get to churches on Sundays and speak to just community members Grands AAS everybody and I raised this issue it's an Amen Corner people rising to their feet like
yes the mayor and I did a press conference a few weeks ago at a school in Brooklyn and there were about two dozen kids at the press conference who were part of it press conference was announcing some of the results of the new app that the city put out um which
helps kids who have who are being confronted with mental health issues how they can get in front of a psychiatrist or somebody to help them in real time and almost 7,000 kids who've already signed up for it we're encouraging more folks to sign up um uh kenita or
somebody from the face team maybe if you can just put that in the link as well again um uh uh information about that because we need to continue to push that because when we talk about the kids mental health we're trying to come up with different things that we can do to solve for this and to help our kids and
this gentleman is saying the number one thing you could do is to take these phones away they are killing our kids he's talking about the neuroscience and the physiological effects of this stuff on the kids so when I talked to these kids at the press conference when it was over I gathered all of these kids now
they go to Thomas jeffson High School in Brooklyn there are four schools in that building that school has already taken the phones away where the kids actually put them in those pouches those Yonder pouches yeah and I said to the kids and overwhelmingly not every one of them but
overwhelmingly the kid said is the best thing ever I said really why all their hands were going up one kid said we he said we hated it for the first two weeks hated it but now we we actually talked to each other
again it was almost like a an epiphany you know it's in the past we didn't talked to everybody just comes in the cafeteria whatever everybody's just buried in their phone another girl raised a hand and said mister we didn't start this but we're like really addicted to the
phones and now since our school took it away it it's it's like it gave our brains a break I said what grade are you in she said I'm in the 10th grade I said she said it's like it's like the school gave us an excuse to give our brain a
break I said don't you think kids across the city are going to be really upset if we take phones away and another young man I turned to him he said yeah they going many of them will be very upset he said but do it anyway he said it's like a person that's
on drugs the person that's on drugs does not volunteer for you to take their drugs away but deep down they know they need somebody to help them that's basically what they're saying kids around the city will say don't take our PS we need our F and they're saying you
need to take it it's like an intervention let us be be kids again let us be kids again and that is what is happening there are more schools around the city that are doing this than I even realize as we started to just survey folks who've already learned that who've
said the number of in remember we were at another EC meeting Canada which one was that uh that wasn't 11 that was another one the one before that uh think it might have been 23 I'm here it's 23 yes 23 in Brownsville yeah
the principal of the school that we're in jumped up and said I've already taken the phones I've already seen this it's a compelling story here he said our incidents have dropped dramatically because we took away the phones The Joy
the togetherness the collaboration amongst kids has skyrocketed because of this just this one thing that we did changed the whole dynamic of the school it's just amazing that of all the stuff that I'm that I'm hearing I'm
processing um and just curious to know uh uh you know thoughts we've got kids we've had parents who said well I need to be in touch with my child you know what's happening we have kids in the middle of their math class with their mommies texting them don't forget to pick up such and such from the store
right supposed to be doing that you're supposed to be in school you should not be in touch with your child during the school day if there's an emergency you call the school that's what we always did we existed before before we ever had cell
phones and in fact some of these emergencies that we having get exacerbated by everybody having phones it's creates a panic we should be able to contact that principal we should be able to contact that that parent coordinator somebody with a direct flow of information I've had principal saying
to me because of all of these phones rumors spread with parents descending on the school because somebody said oh I heard this now parents are running and going crazy losing their minds and not getting clear information why because every every every single kid got a phone and can just send out stuff all over the
place it creates more problems than it's worth curious to hear from anybody here in the few minutes that we have left uh what thoughts people have we got time for just two or three comments I'd love to hear what people are thinking I I see
Adriana you have your hands up but I'm gonna ask you because you know a lot of across the city are doing stuff like self-re zone areas doing that Ponda um thing bottom line I in my experience from all the conversations the parents
there's a holy wants to do this right there's a few here and there just like what you said because I'm supposed to reach my child right I think the the students are more uh more receptive to refute getting the phone but I would
like to ask would you make an executive order and remove the phones from out of the schools will you do that well listen this is interesting I I when I asked all these principles I said should we do something where we just say we leave it all up to you as an individual school
and school Community come up with your own universally not not everybody but overwhelmingly they said no you should do it as the chancellor you give us you it's like backing us up because if you don't do that um if you truly believe
that it is good for kids and it's good for their safety and it's good for their mental health why wouldn't you do it and mandated for the whole system in the same way that we did with reading we are sitting around with all these kids that didn't even know how to read so we mandated no we're gonna do a specific approach to this and we're gonna fix
this reading problem we're not gonna sit around and say I don't know what do you think everybody do whatever they feel that they think works best um this is a mental health crisis and it's a safety crisis and if I'm responsible for the system that I should be leaning in for
the system I will tell you all these administrat and an overwhelming number of par it's never everybody you're never going to get that in system is large anyway but overwhelmingly this is what everybody's saying we need you to do something with it I before I got on this call I'm
literally just coming from a big event celebrating My Brother's Keeper My Sister's Keeper the speaker of the city council is there the Regent uh Chancellor of the State Board of region Dr ler young is there uh you know several hundred people in the room and when I gave my remarks I asked the kids
they're about I don't know 40 kids or something in the room I had them all stand up I said tell me what you think about this phone issue I told them basically what I said to you this is what some of the data is saying every child except for one said
um I think you should absolutely take away the phone and they said talk about all of the the distractions of the phone um uh uh and just all the problems and as I was walking out one one one young person said uh uh please take the
phones my mother calls me all day long on the phone right like like if you take the phones it would help me because it's it's overwhelming what's happening and a lot of parents are not being responsible at all at all in how they are reaching
kids my mom and dad would have never been in a position to be bothering me in the middle of my English class to tell me don't forget to call Grandma it's her birthday should not be happening they are in school to go to school and if there's an emergency you
call the school they will get your job we're not denying you access and my goal here is not to even take phones some of the schools are taking them they get them back at the end of the day many of the schools are using the pouches so you don't keep your phone it's just that it's put in this magnetized pouch and you keep it at the end of the day they
demagnetizing and 3:00 and now you call Mom and Dad or anybody else you want to call all your friends do whatever you want to we're not keeping their phones forever but we're saying while they're in school this is better for them not to have the distraction of the phone and they can learn better they can be
engaged in school with their classmates and their teachers um we had a couple other hands Adriana your hands up is your hands up if anyone has a question related to that particularly I'm happy to wait because I want I I would like to say something but I also have a question
um I'm happy to wait because I already spoke no you don't have to wait because I'm in a minute I'm getting ready to jump out I've got to go into another meeting here I'm sitting in front of a school now getting ready to go in and surprise a teacher with the Big Apple uh teacher of the year award uh so they're
all waiting for me to go in so I only had a few more minutes I will keep this brief then thank you for being with us today it's our last uh general meeting of the Year happy to see you here um before I ask my question I wanted to um make a short comment about the phones and and teenagers in general I'm not
going to argue the detriment of like excessive phone use or excessive social media exposure like we know that those things are not good for kids and you're right it is um behaviorally very close to an addiction it's a dopamine right it's the same reason that humans love um those
machines the slot machines in a in a casino it's why they're so effective um but I think it's important that we don't in this space because we are all parent leaders that we don't trivialize adolescence um and that we you know we don't trivialize or forget how difficult
it is to be a teenager in your earlier comments you said that like they want to be liked they're doing it for the likes I mean water wets things right teenagers are people and people are social creatures and whether we have an inclination to be
liked by one person or liked by everyone whatever floats your boat we do have that um and I just want to say in case any teenagers are listening to our live stream it's okay to want to be liked it's normal we are all we are all uh wanting to be liked by at least one person in our lives um having said that
I have a question regarding typing as a skill set to be taught um at school many of the families and queens um are concerned about the rapid increase in computer-based everything homework evaluations testing and then on top of that writing
essays or you know writing assignments um but the students across the board are not given uh access to typing courses as part of their curriculum um my kindergartner took assessments on a computer using a keyboard and a mouse before he had any foundational knowledge
of the keyboard the Cordy setup any of it right not even foundational typing skills um I'm happy to teach him that but I also have the privilege to be able to stay home and sit with him in front of a laptop or just in front of a keyboard and teach him that and the reality is many parents don't don't have
that privilege and uh they may they may themselves not be aware of how to type properly how to put your fingers in the right place to avoid any like soft tissue damage in your wrists etc etc um it would be great if while pushing all of this to computers fabulous we all use
computers all day long it's great great skill set but they need to be able to type thank you I appreciate that um and something for us to take a look at you you know I learned how to type when I was in Middle School uh and um you're right a lot of
kids don't have it they just know the skill of the with the fingers and the thumbs rather uh doing this um so uh dly duly not it appreciate it I'm sorry that I do have to run now we gotta get in here they got a whole thing have you ever seen when they do the awards for the Big Apple surprise uh we we do this
for a number of teachers around the city it's a way of showing gratitude for some of like the best teachers across New York City um I'm here at the high school for Health Professions um in La Manhattan here I think on 14th Street right on 14th Street and um it is always
a thrill and the teacher has no idea that they won until they see the chance to walk in and the whole band of people and kids just to say to a specific teacher how much we love you how much we appreciate you how much we uh thank you for being a great teacher to me there's
nothing in the world nothing better than a great teacher um uh they they truly do change the world they impact kids in so many positive ways so this is kind of like one of the best uh parts of being chanelled when you have a chance to go
in and say thank you to a great teacher so I don't want to keep them waiting any longer get ready to head in thank you everybody this has been really good Intel and if folks have more stuff please share it you got all the folks on our team um but uh Deputy Chancellor Lloyd will set up a meeting within the next two weeks so we can get to the
bottom of this dit issue and try to put this thing uh to rest for sure all right thank you everybody all right awesome thank you enjoy your rest your day have fun um thank you team we're going to to the next agenda item which Happy Father's
Day Happy Father's day and happy Eve to all who all right I'm going to share the screen the benefits the um New York New York State class sides mandate and New
York City Public Schools they're going to have a conversation with first Deputy Chancellor Dan rberg or kind of continue the conversation did he come off yeah um I think he may have I I hate to disappoint Shirley I think I'm actually
the one doing this portion of the presentation um in terms of the class siiz policies we're putting in place next year and I believe Ka from SCA is on as well and DSL might be on as well I'm not sure so hi cor um so hold on one
second let me try and screen share oh I have to make you a co-host hold on a second I seem to be one already you're not no I'm not okay fine all right um does cor you need to be a a co-host too no I don't
think so right okay I'll just do my SL I don't believe so thank you okay there you go oh hold on one second guys I'm sorry no ah one second sorry it just kicked me off sharing let me try one more time
beginning do that work good yes ma'am you're good okay first of all thank you everybody I know we've talked about pieces of this peace meal over the past couple of months but we're glad to be here to sort of give you a more comprehensive take at what we
are looking at for next year in terms of class size um implementation of the law I'm going to do a quick overview of the law itself just as a reminder I know many of you are very familiar but just as a reminder in terms of what the law requires and then talk about the work we're doing on the budget side and the
work we're doing with superintendents and schools um to move forward to stay in compliance for next year and then plan ahead Beyond next year with sea as well so with that um want to start by stepping back because we haven't actually talked to
you all since school budgets came out which is related to class size but also related to many other things of course so wanted to start with just a quick overview of um where we are in terms of school budgets going into next school year this whole conversation is going to be about next school year um overall as
we look across the system of school budgets we're seeing an increase of over 800 million that's across the system over $800 million increase next year as compared to the current school year that's in part due to collective
bargaining increases due to uh extremely well-earned um increases for our teachers and principes it's also due to additional State Foundation Aid we received that we are putting into school budgets including for class size in particular and it's due to the
individual school hold harmless that was announced last week that we worked with the city to put in place as well so all of those are contributing to that um also due to um sorry so that's one thing second thing thanks to those of you who served on our FSF working group I can't
see who's on but going into next year we are also maintaining those new weights that we put into the fair student funding formula this year so that came to about a hundred million into school budgets this year we expect to see the same or more going into school budgets
next year for these weights and that is the additional weight schools received for each student in temporary housing they are serving which includes our many of our Asylum seeking students and then additional funds for schools with high concentrations of students with additional needs and those are some of
the recommendations that came out of the FSF working group um that we are maintaining for next year we're investing and we'll talk about this in more detail but we're putting roughly $180 million of additional State Foundation Aid into school budgets specifically for contracts for
excellence which is um a set of six uses required by the state including class size and then roughly 137 million for class size in particular um and then on top of all those other increases uh we also worked with the city to put in
place a hold harmless for any school um that sort of despite these additional increases was still going to see a year-over-year decrease at the school level and put an additional $75 million into school budgets to ensure every school um in terms of their initial
budget was at least where they were last year so that's sort of big picture on school budgets and then of course this is on top of the previous stimulus programs that we were able to sustain going into next year summer school summerizing
um Community Schools additional Arts allocations centrally and its schools and all that turning to turning to class size so again as a quick reminder this is a new state law that applies to New York City Public Schools doesn't apply to other
districts also doesn't apply to Charter Schools which is a question we get often um that basically requires that the city reduce actual class sizes in every uh school every classroom across the district over the past five years over
the next five years to be under these caps so those are the specifics 20 23 and 25 students um per class there's different requirements for Performing Arts and PE bit higher 40 um and then basically the law requires that this
year which is year one 20% of classes across the system be in compliance 40% next year in compliance meaning under these caps 40% next year 60% year after going up to 100% in uh the 2728 school year um and so that's what the law lays
out sort of as the framework um for this year and going forward and it's a Citywide set of data which we'll we'll see as important in a minute and then the law has a set of exemptions that can be agreed upon um between New York City Public Schools Chancellor a
head of the UFT and the head of the CSA um and those are those are the categories in which there can be exemptions this is what um this is what we look like currently so if you look across the city um in terms of the percentage of classes under the Caps uh
this is what it looks like and as you can see there's wide variation between districts within the city so darker means more classes are currently underneath the Caps that are required in the law so if you look at d23
Brownsville we have uh roughly 73% of our classes under the Caps this year if you look at d26 I believe it is in Queens we have 20% of our classes under the caps and then everywhere else Falls somewhere in the middle and you can see lighter is
fewer classes under the Caps darker is more class is under the caps and again that's our current state for this year if you look across the city what you get is we currently have about 40% of classes across the city falling under the new caps um which is roughly what is
required under the law for next year that being said while we are close to compliance for next year already we are putting in place a set of policies and a set of budget decisions to support implementation of the law next year um across the city so one of the big things
we've done is we've asked every District in the city uh to work to improve their compliance improve the percentage of classes they have under the class under the Caps by three percentage points as you guys could see in the last map districts are really all over the map in
terms of how much progress they have to do to get to 100% um but we think it's important that no matter where they are they start doing some work to make some improvement so we've said to all super superintendence please work with your principles to improve compliance by at
least 3% going into next year we've intentionally not had big Central mandates around what that needs to look like um we don't think we need to do that to ensure we stay in compliance next year so we're leaving it up to superintendents and principles to think about how they can make progress we've
given them a a list of options but it's really up to them to consider how to make progress going into next year looking differently at space looking differently at how students are distributed between classes looking differently about that budget and sort of saying looking at different ways to make progress going into next year so
that's one that's one thing we've done we've been working with our superintendents on that as well um the second thing is and cor is here and can answer more questions been doing a lot of work with sea to focus on updating our Capital planning strategy to make sure it's aligned with class size which
as we've discussed before requires sea to think differently about how they do their planning in this current capital plan also working to make sure the 27,000 seats they already have underway are being used to address the class- siiz needs we know exist under the laws
framework which is not why those seats necessarily first came about because they predated the laws new caps um but making sure they are aligning and helping with compliance there that's the second thing and I would say as a part of that we're also doing some work with specific schools that just need a little bit more space to figure out where they
can repurpose a room or two going into next year so we know they have the space they need can check that box off going forward um as I said we're putting additional money into school budgets both generally as you saw but then specifically for class size reduction this is new this new funding stream that
is just for class size reduction that we are putting out um we're working closely with our HR team who I realized are not here but but could be surely next time it's of interest in terms of thinking about teacher recruitment strategies we know that um we project that the law will require us to hire an additional 10
to 12,000 teachers by 2027 2028 that's on top of the 3 to 4,000 we hire regularly each year um and so and and we know a set of those will be special education teachers where we already face shortages and so our um HR department is
thinking about how we can both uh continue and expand some of the work we've been doing um as well as think about new strategies for Teacher Recruitment and working with uh our Union Partners on that we're continuing to focus on high poverty schools um the law requires us
to focus on high poverty schools one of the things as you as you may have seen in the last in the map slide one of the challenges here is the schools with the greatest class size reduction needs tend to be some of our less High poverty schools and the schools where we tend to already have smaller classes those
districts tend to be some of our more High poverty schools um but we are working to make sure in these first few years of implementation we keep um poverty at at the center of our implementation efforts we've obviously worked hard to continue to make things like FSF even more Equitable and are keeping that at our focus and
implementation here and then we're frankly just doing a lot of data analysis and planning for the years ahead in terms of the work that needs to be done so I'm actually gonna stop my screen share surely um and I think cor you should jump in if there's anything you want to
add and otherwise I think we're happy to take any questions and if dsl's on and wants to add anything they should jump in too obviously this work uh really is a lot of it as for next year is folling in superintendence as well so happy to have them join he's still sharing Emma or somebody's still
sharing yep there you go right you good cor cor uh there she goes um no em I think that is a really great summary um uh as Emma mentioned we are working very closely with uh a lot
of the Departments uh teams within the New York City public school on regular basis we have bi-weekly meetings weekly meetings then look at you know this uh work together to identify sites and figure out the creative approaches um so
hoping that you know we can make bigger a better or faster progress uh identify sites for schools um in the coming month and then we can report back on prog ress we make um but other than that I think you know if there's any question we're
happy to address or answer all right anybody has questions uh okay there's a bunch of them in the chat um I so um oh sorry I have to I no I have to say it out loud because we are live stream they cannot
see the chat so the first one is to confirm this is a classes like in individual classes or classes like graduated class very good question it's individual classes so it could be um an individual AP Biology class it could be
an individual kindergarten class but it's each individual section of each course at each school right the next one are there any previous submitted and still unanswered questions going to be answered now
okay all questions will shared last month prior to DC Weisberg shifting to this month yeah questions were submitted for last mon meeting and they weren't answered so that's uh what members are asking about questions was submitted two
months ago regarding class sizes I don't have those questions in front of me but if if someone wants to bump them I think cor and I can try and answer everything we can I apologize that I I don't have them in front of me
I think I might have done uh happy to share my screen if that helps okay let me make you a co-host hold on a second go okay Corey you're good
you guys see I believe those are I believe those are the questions is that um those the correct questions were referring to from the N previous submission I think yeah I think that was that was that
was um Adriana's person submission there was one submitted for all of CPAC so but those are her her specific questions that she's she um said she missed the deadline so this is her
questions Jesse or someone from face if we have those and you could forward them cor and I can try and take them cor I think you can tackle a couple of these now if we start here sure um so I think the first question is about the budget um we did share
estimate um we did provide a very rough estimate of uh the capital dollars Nets needed to support the class size uh which is the 22 to 20 uh I think we actually said 22 to 27 billion but um
the the calculation that is um cited here in the question um is it kind of makes sense but I do want to point out a few things um so that in the plan because we don't know how many buildings we need to build where we are building
those seats and how big the schools we can build so those are really uh kind of placeholders uh to count for the seeds and the funding we have um just to know that you know this there is a very significant economy of skilles when we
build bigger buildings uh right you only need two sets of stairs you only need two elevators uh so there a lot of kind of the building support space uh same amount needed for much larer Building compared to a smaller building so the
smaller buildings are a lot more expensive on a pered uh basis because the nor is really on individual schools and every classroom has to be in compliance we anticipate the um implementation of the capital
strategy will have to be on a very localized level which means we probably will end up bu building a lot of smaller schools to have individual uh School instead of a large building to you know to address a sub dist neval need which
was the basis of our current capital plan um so the 22 to 27 billion um estimate is really taking into account a more localized framework um based on this you know different type of strategy
we might have to apply uh it does count for uh smaller buildings being a lot more expensive uh as a way to support the class siiz compliance so that's for question number
one um question number two is more on teachers em I don't think yeah um I can answer that yes so first of all thank you for the question and and as I um noted we do think hiring additional
teachers is one of the key needs we have going forward and that's one of the reasons we're putting additional dollars into school budgets in multiple ways to hire additional teachers um the high level answer to this question is we're actually we actually there's some discrepancies between the financial plan
and what we're actually projecting for next year both because we got a bunch of additional dollars through stimulus dollars that are going into school budgets um through the additional dollars that have been announced since the last financial plan that are going into school budgets and just because of
some um as we and om continue to work to align what our uh dollars look like so so big picture we are not projecting that level of loss of teachers for next year uh schools have their budgets we are expecting they will be hiring additional teachers for next year with the additional dollars they are getting
for that purpose um and that's what we are projecting for next year um go ahead Shirley I'm sorry I forgot question number two is during the class siiz hearing on 29 February this is what was answered um CM Chris Han
stated that New York City F Financial plan projects that the loss of almost 3,000 teachers over the next two years this equals okay they went small again for me this equals a loss of approximately 889 uh 889 teachers next year and
1,819 teachers the following year in response Deputy Chancellor Weisberg testified that this figure was not our HR rection necessarily yet according to the this is a long question yet according to the Council budget briefing
paper page 29 the doe has projected a loss of 889 teachers next year a figure that that exactly matches those captured in the financial plan how will the doe meet their class size reduction goals and remain in
compliance with the law given the shear level of loss of teachers next year and the following year that was the question that was just answer thank you shy so basically that's the answer that's not what we're projecting and we believe these additional dollars as well as the dollars schools have will ensure we
remain in compliance and are projecting to hire additional teachers can I can we break can we break up there's a question in the chat um can we just break it up for a second before we go back to those questions when will the doe announce the plan for the
upcoming fall emission cycle 2526 while the city is in compliance for this year they are not after that and parents need to know by September what this landscape will be thank you very much um Becca and
appreciate the the question and I promise you the September fall timeline is very much on our minds so um going into next year into the 2425 school year um we did not have any large scale
enrollment and admissions changes which is I think what you are looking at individual schools did individual things but we didn't have any large scale changes in order to um get or remain in compliance with the class siiz law that's in part because we didn't think that was necessary going into this fall
we're very close to compliance already um and it's in part because it's honestly something we are not eager to do unless we really need to we appreciate families are choosing these schools and we're we're not looking to make changes to that unless we really need to that being said you're asking about the year after next what I can
tell you is this is something we are very much discussing internally we're we're very aware that if we're going to make any large scale shifts that something families need to know this fall as they make their own decisions um and we expect that any changes would happen in in compliance with that
timeline so families know in advance thank you and those who came in late or just coming in please fill out the attendance form um um before we go back to one of the questions on the screen number three I
just like to answer this even though we still have questions after every month this year I've sought the understanding as to the school construction oh the construction Authority in New York City Public Schools rationale for no longer
identifying 77% of the as of the seats in the capital plan according to District burrow and grade level okay think that's aab I don't see the question I guess do want clarification uh sure I can respond to
that and that's actually somewhat related to the third question on the screen um so I'm not sure if folks aware the New York City has been experienced very consistent and large scale birth rate
decline for the past 15 years uh and on top of that the public school enrollment has been on its decline for almost 10 years so with those two things combined uh we are no longer seeing any c need uh
Citywide um so instead we are pivoting the new capacity program in the capital plan to really provide the capital support for class siiz compliance uh and that planning framework is very different from uh from the capacity C
need that we used to have we continue to um post and share information as we have been for a couple years after loal law 167 uh was established and passed uh the same information on our website but the
bottom line is we no longer have C need uh and that's the reason why we couldn't identify where the funding and the seats to be funded will be in which district and subdistrict uh it is going to be on
ongoing basis as we continue to identify sites to address class size when sites are identified they will be shared and uh included in our plan all right thank you I'm going I'm sorry if you have any other additional comments or questions you're going to
have to put it in the chat we're six minutes into the next presentation I invited guests we want to respect their time um if face doesn't have those additional questions just uh I will look for them and forward them again um so
you can have them so we can have um those questions answered uh we appreciate you taking the time and um discuss uh uh you know the conversation with us I just want to remind members this is your be this is your opportunity
to ask questions right um about these topics so you and representing your districts so thank you so much Emma and and cor I'm going to go to the you welcome to stay I'm going to I'm going
to I'm going to um share my slides here right we're going now to hear a presentation from Saving Jane um and they will tell you who they are what they're about I'm going to give the floor to Kathy andne Powell to introduce
everyone that's with her and they have the thank you so much Shirley and good morning everyone so I'm Kathy andne Powell the founder in the CEO of saving Jan we are 501c3 nonprofit charity dedicated to the prevention of human
trafficking especially children so why prevention so in 2018 when Saving Jane was founded we um we started we started wanting to assist human trafficking survivors and after
doing doing lots of research and looking at the problem we realize that if someone has been traffick the trauma that comes along with it was just was just overbearing and we have
failed as society and the damage has already done so I started thinking about this for a while sitting on my couch thinking about children and their future then that's when we focus our our
mission on prevention and prevention especially for children I went around ask a lot of folks um who could assist us with storytelling writing books making it a easy conversation so kids could digest
and I got a lot of knows I got a lot of knows that this is not the topic to have you know and then I met Thomas esler a couple of months later and he have already created a series comic books for about 10 years where he advocate for
children and Empower them around this conversation so I'll like to introduce you guys to Thomas esler the author and the Comic Book Creator and the development of the appolition workshops hi everyone uh thank you so
much Kath kathen and thank you for everyone who's showing up today I'm going to begin uh sharing my screen uh and that for me is always funny funky little thing to try and do let me try and get
this happening oh okay all right here we are does everybody see our Saving Jane um pile great great well yes could you I'm sorry
could you make it a little larger oh uh um let me see I don't think I can unfortunately how how big is it on your screen you know what I want to do I want to stop my
video maybe that'll help uh also no that's that's not gonna you could stop your video that will help with the audio but that not g to um help with the slides I mean I can I I can pinch mines and make it bigger but I if there everybody seeing it the same way I am is
some people are going to have hard time seeing the the slides surely hide this so dead I I see it full screen I don't know if I have a different setting or so I'm not sure about other experiences all right everybody says some said yes please make it bigger others are saying
I see it huge so just continue all right thank you so much I'm sorry when it comes to technology I'm I'm a little slow all right I will however stop my video now
and I I do just want to uh uh brief briefly just uh uh thank you all for being here today and and tell you how moved I am uh by your dedication as guardians of uh the children of our community which are so valuable but also
in some ways our most volume uh vulnerable members of our community uh thank you for your commitment to championing education uh this is probably the only time I will uh get to to thank you for defending our rights
and our sh sh values of respect freedom and equality I think your tireless work ensures that our community thrives and that our children have the opportunity to reach their full potential I have some sobering news I'm afraid the tough
news is that never before have predators and traffickers had such easy access to so many children because of social media human traffickers can initiate thousands of recruitment conversations while hiding their identity and their intentions since the pandemic young
people have spent an extraordinary portion of their lives online we have carefully created this prevention Workshop to responsibly teach kids how to recognize a recruitment conversation how to powerfully deal with a predator
or trafficker and who they can go to for help if they get into trouble what makes this prevention Workshop different is that is based around uh a comic book we had no idea that a comic book worked shop about human trafficking was going
to be as successful as it has been i b comic book workshops into schools where kids try and talk their way out of their regular classes in order to attend and it's because kids don't look at comic books like textbooks or schoolwork comic
books are their entertainment preference and when they read them they become absorbed in them in such a way that they remember everything about the story you bring a comic book into school kids go nuts they can't read it fast enough and they end up memorizing every word when I
ask questions about the comic book after they read it they they answer by quoting the comic book verbatim and one of the most touching things that ever happened was this young woman handing me her composition book after reading the comic
book where she had uh written your comic book taught me uh uh uh how to know if someone is trying to play me and gave me the courage to live life without fear thank you for telling me that I have the right to protect myself you know I just
want to show you uh uh uh some some uh media coverage of human trafficking cases in New York City over the past 12 months uh this uh human trafficking is is a big threat and you know I was really struck by one of the headlines at
the bottom that uh that shows that um that experts say that up to 50% of traffic use are male um uh in fact the The Washington Post had a uh an article
a couple months ago about an epidemic um of young men being um exploited online and it was so uh serious and so traumatic and humiliating that tragically uh uh several of them took their own lives and that is the case
with many um victims of human trafficking we were with judge kamacho who has had to create a family court just for um human trafficking cases because it has become an epidemic in his
uh neighborhood and um and many of the stories he tells me uh end tragically uh as as well um uh I also just uh want to yeah what other uh let me just sh some
statistics from some studies um 100,000 us-born children are trafficked every year 80% of homeless youth who are trafficked come out of the foster care system and I was speaking with a foster care administrator who told me of of a
an apartment on the upper SE East Side in an affluent neighborhood um where kids go to hang out but that apartment was owned by a trafficker uh who was really grooming these kids for EXP exploitation the average age of Entry uh
is 13 um in 2018 the national human trafficking hotline uh had uh over a thousand calls with victims from New York uh the national Center for missing and exploited children reviewed over 100
million images of child pornography last year uh 34 million of which were new it's just chilling I know chilling um Educators say that the best way to protect children is to educate them and one of the things that sets our um or
one of the ways that we ease into the subject matter for young people is to to show them what it looks like around the world for instance um here is a picture of uh victims of human trafficking
working in Cotton plantations around the world mostly Asia and Africa we go over domestic servitude this is a picture from India child soldiers from Africa organ trafficking forced marriage about 22 million victims of human trafficking
are are due to forced marriages where men by girls um who have no say in the matter uh for this marriage so we're not talking about arranged marriages we're talking about forced marriages um and also sex trafficking
but that's what human trafficking looks like around the world but what does it look like here in our neighborhoods and what type of human trafficking are kids most vulnerable to that's what our comic book is about good girl gone uh and it tells one of the most typical
trafficking stories of a young woman who runs away from home the young woman in the middle Zoe is the main character her best friend moon is is also an important part of the story and Kyle is the
trafficker uh the story is is uh Zoe runs away from home because her mom's new boyfriend starts acting in inappropriate and dangerous ways around her I can't tell you how many young people in schools identify with uh that
scenario uh an online friend of that she's never met offers her a place to stay but that person isn't real it's been fabricated by a trafficker who's trying to recruit young women so Zoe's being catfished and kids really understand that that happens online all
the time um uh when uh her this online friend doesn't show up to the meeting because she's you know fictitious the trafficker comes to her rescue offers her food and a place to sleep uh The Stranger turns into her boyfriend who
turns into her career coach who then turns into her Traer and as it's only through the Persistence of this friend Moon and her school counselor that zo Zoe realizes that she's in danger and uh she summons her inner strength to free
herself from her trafficker um when you weave educational material about human trafficking into a story the kids receive a much deeper understanding of what human trafficking is stories give students context and shows them that the
the characters that are involved which they recognize they see a recruitment conversation happening they understand what a dangerous situation looks like and they sharpen their ability to spot uh this dangerous person when young
people see this they immediately understand these situations they start recognizing the potential dangerous situations in their own life they begin to ask themselves I see this why is this person on the internet trying to get my personal contact information they ask themselves these questions why is the
older man offering me to take him shopping so typical of ways that that traffickers recruit young people people why does this guy uh want to what does this guy want in return for concert tickets that I want and that he's offering um and why does this person
seem to want me to be interested in someone else this is so creepy and um but that is what happens in human trafficking uh the final section of our educational curriculum uh curriculum is about empowering young people with
skills that they need to protect them M themselves we teach kids how to recognize the warning signs of a friend who might be in trouble and how to recognize a good person from a bad person which let's face it is a skill that we all need in fact so many of
these skills we teach are applicable uh to many other safety issues in life particularly around uh healthy relationships in our Workshop we teach kids who they can go to for help what trusted adults uh they can go to for
help if they get into trouble if a friend of theirs gets into trouble we make a list we t uh uh our students learn online safety practices we give them a Bill of Rights uh which includes things like I have the right to walk
away from any situation that feels creepy unsafe or inappropriate I have the right to tell anyone to stop touching me or leave me alone and I have the right to make this request as loud as I can especially if other people around you know I've met many parents
who try to Shield their children from any information about human trafficking or other dangerous people and the hopes that shielding them from knowing about human trafficking somehow makes their children safer but by keeping children away from learning about human
trafficking caring adults are making children even more more vulnerable to to traffickers and predators it is not while a child is under the watchful eye of an adult that a child is vulnerable it's while they're on their way to
school or or at the playground or going to a friend's house that they're vulnerable or while they're online kids have to know how to protect themselves how to spot dangerous situations uh when they're online or on their own and how
to steer clear of them uh educating adults about human trafficking without educating young people is like inoculating a parent for an illness that a child is at risk uh of getting what sets saving Jane's prevention program
apart is that it is crafted by Educators it is history based it has a proven track record in New York City and it also has Innovative Educational Tools like a comic book that generates a huge amount of excitement with students uh
and it it helps them important this really important uh material I like to imagine a whole generation of our young people in our community commun uh growing up understanding how to identify predators predators how to protect
themselves and also on the other side of the coin what a healthy relationship looks like which is what we all want for our children to grow up and have this Rich beautiful healthy relationship that
that really uh enriches all our lives that is uh saving James abolish Easter program and uh we would love for you to contact us for more information or how we can partner to safeguard the children in our community and I am open to
questions if anyone has any questions there's one in the chat hold on a second scroll down when showing that reference photo for forced marriage do you provide additional context as to the location
culture Etc because the image we saw reinforces deeply ingrained stereotypes specifically anti-arab stereotypes and this is entirely unnecessary when there are four US states that have set no
statutory minimum for marriage you don't have to be at least 18 to get married and if that wasn't bad enough Most states have massive loopholes including parent Al consent yes we actually have
pictures of um forced marriages that are happening in the United States the latest uh um study that I showed uh estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of forced marriages that happen in the United States and and
that's actually the picture that we show okay before I give the floor to Adriana anybody else has any questions okay Adriana thank you um I guess that actually feeds into what my question
actually was which is do you provide additional context as to the location the culture Etc because if you're using the photo that we saw that in my opinion reinforces anti-arab sentiment and other related stereotypes if you were to take
a picture from one of the states that of the four that have no uh statutory minimum for marriage also called child marriage if you're providing a photo of like a stereotypical Bumpkin like California person because California is one of
those States um you should also be providing context for that just like if you were using a photo from somewhere in Appalachia you would provide context for that because the context does inform the rest of the story so whether it's a photo that is you know showing another
part of the world and and othering this or if it's showing F from our own country we can't other it so I'm asking if you're providing context not whether or not you use photos from the US thank you uh uh yes this is a very good question and I also think it's really
important yeah we we we do our our best to explain uh the situation um here in the United States and and uh that is sort sort of how we um um the climax of
that that particular uh subject matter is really pointing out H how it happens at home and um yes but thank you thank you for that any other questions or comments for
Saving Jane I would suggest that you also describe other services that you have through saving Jan can you explain the other services this is me asking the other services that is provided by Saving
Jade more than go ahead Thomas our our education uh uh program and our prevention programs something that you know uh uh that is our primary prevention uh service I'll let Kathy
Anne uh uhh talk about more about what Saving Jane does thank you Thomas so some of the other um Services we have at sing Jane is is part of our prevention around educating colleges college
students about what does human trafficking looks like on campus and we have have an app for that and we partner with Florida State University we're using the curricula which is about 12 hours long and we in we kind of introduced that into colleges
today and some of the other services we have when we do workshops here in New York City we provide it in Spanish as well so I don't know if Thomas you want to speak to that we have had quite a lot of requests of having our material
translate into Spanish yeah I I recently did um a um Workshop in Spanish and and in English we we had a presenter translating in Spanish it was uh fantastic it was just one of the most you know um one of the things when
I talk to the DA DA's office and and uh judges um it really is immigrant communities that are so highly at risk in our community um for trafficking and U um I
I know that out in Staten Island there's really an epidemic but it is primarily in the Immigrant Community any other questions or comments all right thank you so much comment just I think maybe to wrap up
and and I think uh definitely we all understand the importance by the way I'm a de Lin from Saving Jane um what we offer and we already basically been doing that and Thomas touch on it for several years now is um basically we
have a workshop that um basically it's roughly two hour Workshop in person Thomas and other instructor are basically we coordinate with school and what you saw kind of a flavor of it and hopefully in the next meeting I think on the 27 we'll be able to show
more details basically Thomas is Walking with the students about the history as it presented and going into the risk and and some prevention skills but all that is basically an Inon Workshop where it's centered that comic book and and the the
student are receiving actually a copy of that book as part of the workshop they can take with them and and keep and and a reference back so this is something we are doing with schools as I said across the country New York City definitely is our main uh destination for uh uh
delivering those Workshops the contact information is on the screen Rosa but if somebody could put it in the chat please do could you stop sharing please thank you any other questions okay thank you for coming um and I can't
scan I'm on my phone okay I G to ask them to put it in the chat the the their contact information no problem and then I can uh if they email me I'll I'll send it for you all right all right awesome
all right so thank you um kathen Thomas and ODed we're going to go move to our next agenda the item all right so secret G prery so before I give the floor to Anthony um
settles I'm Anthony can I should since the live stream started late um we was having technical difficulties I would like to go back to some of the important points regarding School leadership team I think you should do that before we talk about prep for next school year
sure all right so I'm G I'm going to go back yeah uhhuh let me stop sharing and then let me put it where I want it to be and I want to let members know um after a certain point we're going to live stream because we have to make an stop
live streaming because we have to make an announcement we need to share something with you um so just stay on um we're not going to adjourn the meeting after I you know doing and close the comments but the live stream will be
shut down and then we need to have a discussion on I'm sorry I'm trying to okay Shar me so we don't have to cut piece the beginning of the meeting that people Miss June every
PTA and president's Council varying if they have proposed budget for June this should be passed in the June meeting and then September um reviewing the proposed budget and making and making amendments
leaving it the same but also gives a chance for incoming the new parents to see um what the proposal budget is for the school year as per Chancellor's regulations this should be done for your June um PA PTA
meeting also the Ann annual financial report everyone who has a bank account that means P PTA all must have a bank account in order to fund raise it's mandated by the Chancellor's regulations and those president's Council who have
bank accounts you are doing your now is time for the annual financial report where is Du is due in June and it must be filed if you're a president's Council in your superintendent's office if you're a PTA
the principal's office School leadership team June this is the month where you're filling out your annual um evaluation form I don't know if if you could find it Charlene um Anthony puts put it in the chat you could put it in the chat
for the live stream the the actual link but this form can be found on in in the um Chancellor's regul Chancellor's regulations um a655 in regards to um the principal's annual assessment should be
filled out by everyone on the team of course except for the um principal where it say parent representative you Crossing that out putting ction constituency group same thing for the second paragraph which repeats which I
don't understand constituency group make your comments where it says parent staff name you're going to put your constituency group and when it says signature and date you're just going to put the date because this is supposed to
be anonymous it's collected and it's sent to the district office via your family leadership coordinator um I have the members put it in an envelope and then put it in the inter office envelope to the superintendent's
office so this is supposed to be anonymous and all team members should be uh filling this out besides um not just the parent okay CPI perky group I'm going to real quick again to give some highlights
and I'm going to go to the next one is this is out the high level timeline for the district comprehens plan for next school year and the high level timeline for the comprehension education plan dce by the
DTs C by the slts so June 14th the C draft submission is due also on June 14th the language allocation policy the language translation interpretation plan for parents your application for 2425
title 3 is due in July 12 the budget uh the school must uh submit their budget and the alignment of their budget to their CS to their superintendent in the district level July 31st superintendant will complete
the 2324 District comprehension education plan self assessment and submit it submit the P 2425 DCP for central for review um if you notice I didn't mention
the C P you should be working on this year's uh C for next year already and that draft submission is due in June 14th like I said earlier and September 6 superintendents will receive feedback on their pulin
2425 District comprehension plan there's a revive SLT they Revis the SLT monthly calendar to includes links and resources so another way another form of support besides inputting your slt's attendance
sheet agendas minutes um and any other documentation that's related the same thing with the uh Title One you every month you're submitting if you are a title one school you're going to submit your agenda your minutes your attendance
sheet and any other documentation that uh corresponding to that meeting should be will be should be being already started uploading them into the I plan and that's because the state is ramping
up their audits quality review on slts and title ones and make sure that uh New York the state is in compliance District um SLT training was discussed also again early to be have
done earlier than later encouraging District teams to do this in October November the latest okay we went over the Committees again we don't we strongly oppose the school um the Citywide
leadership team and I'm going to stop sharing from there um those are the important updates especially we arrive at the end um Anthony you can now have the floor I'm sorry I was clearing my throat
I wasn't trying to interrupt you sh oh no no no no no I I didn't even take it that way I'm busy hearing music in my ear anyway so hello everybody hope I hope you're all doing well I first off want to say
uh Happy Father's Day to all the fathers in the room and Happy Father's Day to the fathers who are not in the room as well as to anyone who is a father figure um to any of our children uh I I'm a proud father figure to an incredible number of nieces and nephews and now
Grand nieces and and nephews and so the the Broods keep growing between me and my husband's families so um Happy Father's Day um also I want to say happy Eid Al to any to anyone um as well as
happy juneth um those are the those are the big events this year uh this month so as Shirley was saying and I think this is really important for all of us to take note of as we're coming down to to the end of the year and thinking all the things that we got to close out but we should also start to think of the
things that we need to open up for next year so um the I know I talked about this last month trans June June's transfer of records and hopefully you have been encouraging your your your Pas and ptas in your districts uh and in your Burrows
to to actually have that transfer of Records it is so all those things that Shirley just talked about they should all particularly that budget and uh and your financial reports all of those things should be literally slid across
the table to the incoming executive board even if you are part of that incoming executive board you want to slide it to yourself metaphorically as well as literally uh because you want to be able to see I think a number of
things um you want to be able to assess your year you want your Pas and ptas to be able to assess their year as a president's Council what worked what didn't work uh what what what was a high cost
of things and what was a low cost of things did you work with a a vendor who was Troublesome is that a vendor you want to work with next year um did you did you learn of of a of a particular external partnership that might be
useful for you for your schools in your districts I think that's as as president councils that's what you should be focused on um reviewing your own bylaws whether this is whether you're at that time two to three years where you are
required to review and and update your bylaws or you found something in your bylaws that just didn't work this is the time of that of year where you want to take a good thorough look at your bylaws and and then make sure that they're going to work for you next year as best
they can can we can't always anticipate everything but we should be able to take the lessons that we've learned this year and apply them to next year so th those is um that's that's kind of the thing that I really want to I want to emphasize with you
um Saving Jane was like a very very I was compelled I was glued to this screen um and even when I'm getting messages and emails coming in while we're gathered together I I I let those go because I thought this was such a good
good good presentation and good for me to know personally as well as professionally but you've got organizations in your districts and there are organizations across the city whom you should be tapping into this is the time of year where you can talk to one another
still or talk to folks in your districts and find out what external Partnerships should we cultivate to address issues that are in our communities uh and and how do we bring that to our schools next year this is
that kind of thing that you want to to engage yourselves in I also want to make this plug in terms of I'm going to go back a bit to the records that that Shirley was talking about you know not everybody knows how to put together a
budget um and you might want to think about how you can support your schools that need to put together budgets I'm going to assume I know what they say about assuming but I'm going to presume how about that I'm going to presume that you guys are the experts on
all of those things because you're highly successful in and knowing about them and implementing a budget in your own Pas and ptas really want you to start sharing that information with the the Pas and ptas in your in your districts don't
assume that people know how to put together a budget don't assume that people know how to pass you know after they get the budget what to do with the budget um don't assume that people know how to review review and revise a budget based on uh assessments that they're
conducting right so really I think that that is an extremely important element I I don't think I don't think that I have been a I have been as successful in in my role in helping
people to understand how vitally important the transfer of Records actually is to the success of an incoming executive board right I don't think that I've really been that successful I've stressed it I've done it but I don't think that we've been really
successful in that regard this singular event that the regulation requires is the jumping point for success for headache for heartache and for failure
all of those things because if one of those things if if that if that transfer records doesn't happen then those other three things do happen headache heartache and failure right you're setting your you're setting up your successors for
failure in essence you're setting up your students for failure your fames for failure when it comes to the resources that you could be bringing to your schools I I'm going to piggyback on on something the chancellor said in over 20
years I've seen this play out time and time again adults get in the way of success of Pas and ptas right I'm gonna say that again adults get in the way of success of Pas and ptas you don't have to like someone to
work with someone because we do it every day there are tons of people we don't like but we have to work with them and we learn to work with them and best we can that happens even in Pas and ptas whether it is you working with another member of your executive board or whether it's working with an
administrator or whether it's working with a teacher or working with other school staff or District staff you still have to work with them and I always want people to keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing you're doing what you're doing for
that student in your school that student in your District that is struggling the most right the student that is struggling the most that's why you're doing what you're doing if our schools didn't need the additional
support it would what would you what would you wind up doing you'd just be sitting there there wouldn't wouldn't be there wouldn't be a call to action but the call to action is to help a child who is struggling in your school and how you do that by supporting the
school I also want you to think or or help your Pas and ptas to think as we're moving into summer moving into next year where is the focus of your Papa's fundraising where is it going to go to at the end of the year who is it helping on the broader
spectrum of your school communities I I've worked with school communities where 90 80 to 90% of fundraising went to students and families who are leaving the school at the end of the year and then people wonder why there's nobody around to pick up pick up or get elected
next year why people don't come out because if I were a parent and you know this right if I were a parent and uh I wanted to do this but I didn't see anybody supporting my kids's grade I'll wait till my kid is in the the exiting grade then I get
involved and we see that over and over again so try to look at the total picture of the school and where the school is going to need the support and then that's where you want to start to uh delegate where you're fundraising is going to go
uh I think the summer can be a great time to do some great strategic planning um looking at and also to to have some preliminary conversations with your school administrators so or or superintendents in the districts uh but
I really do think this is that time where you start to look at and review your whole year to say this worked here that worked there this was a great group to bring in they were not so good this other group over here wanted to come in but we couldn't get them in how can we
get them in next year these are the things that you want to start thinking about and and again I'm going to go back to that what I said earlier do our bylaws work are first first and foremost are our bylaws in Conformity to a660 do they comply to a660 or are they out of
compliance to a660 is this that time is this that two or threee period where you're required to review your bylaws and up tape them and amend them or do you just notice something that didn't work well because of the bylaws those are the things that you should be
thinking about and as I as as seasoned as seasoned parent leaders in your schools how do you how do you how do you prepare for your association's future and Future Leaders
who were you bringing along with you who can then succeed you uh you've had a great example in Shirley knowledgeable caring dedicated
decisive um and open to new ideas great leadership skills her example should be inspiring somebody to step into her shoes as she exit exits this stage um and so I just personally want to say
Shirley it's been great working with you I've had we've had our we've had our differences from time to time but we've always worked we always figured out a way to come to some center point where we could at least stand and be respectful and find some agreement on
many things but I think most importantly we stood together respectfully in each other's presence whether it was on Zoom or whether we were meeting in person to figure things out to make CPAC a better place to be so I want to say thank you to you for your for all of the work that you've done Randy I say thank you to you
as well um we go back and forth on a lot of things but I love the way you challenge me to to be to be a better knowledgeable person uh and I thank all of you for all of that but I also think in turn turn
and thank not only each other but thank the Pas and ptas who come to your president council's meetings time and time again you don't know or you may not know how valuable a resource you really are to them and you have been a valuable
resource to me your questions to me make me think even on days when I don't want to think um uh but it's always been a great joy to be in this space with you and to work with you and hopefully hopefully I've
been able to share as I've always said right one or two things about thing or two that I that I actually do know so um I I surely if there are questions that that people want that I'm open to ask answering or doing my best to answer as
many questions as we have time for um any questions for Mr settle regarding preparing for the next school year and if you do think of them of course you can always um send it send
it to him or and C Pac if you like I'm just going to remind I'm going to it going to look like we're going to end the meeting but we're not ending the meeting we're just going to say goodbye to the live stream after I you know wrap up the the slides so don't go off the
the the platform members thank you yeah I'm still here till October so I know I know no I'm not you to the CH we're closing out the school closing out the school year yes so we thank everybody uh
all leaders and not just parent Leaders with titles all parents yes right for this because this um I don't know if you're going to agree been a very difficult or I shouldn't say difficult more challenging you know year than
normal you know um regardless of outside influences inside influences has been a little bit more challenging um this year so but hopefully um that's also uh a reason why we should be continually preparing for
the next school year and um and take the the questions and challenges and solidify them to minimize them for the next school year but um I'm going to go and uh share my slides because I don't see any other questions
something go ahead Brandy just we're planning for for the next school year so um what you can do is you can get a calendar and you can give it to your ptas or ask them to bring a calendar and share with them um the c meeting dates
your upcoming president's council meeting dates the um New York State Testing dates and the school the school calendar and put those dates in the calendar so all your schools know not to plan events on those days in my district
our superintendent um lets the principles know that she would like them to not have any kind of events whether it's parent Community or school on the nights of president's Council or CC meetings so it doesn't prevent a parent leader from maybe attending a show in their child's
School while they're supposed to be doing a parent leadership meeting so we have that in our district and we share everything we work closely with our CC's on dates and everything so I have this calendar I get it from Class Act we use them for pictures and they actually
since the school calendar came out early they put the dates of the school calendar in the calendar itself so it's amazing that we have that and then I just highlight when there's no school I highlight parent teacher conferences I
put my PTA meeting dates in there so when I have my president's council meeting tonight night I put all that information in there for them so when they come and they also bring me their PTA certifications their minutes their um their proposed budgets their title on
guidance policy their consultation forms everything so we have it in one place we ask them to bring two copies they leave it with the our FLC and our president's Council so we have good recordkeeping everything's great on a flash drive or something but they could break so having
paper copy on file also makes it easier and if June transfer records shouldn't happen we're able to help out and support them but we want to make sure that the June transfer records happen and make sure you have everything given including passwords passwords are
included in that too so make sure you share that as well um and then while I'm here I want to say thank you to Shirley because she is graduating out and she will be here until October but June 30th officially she's no longer a Public School parent parent and I want to wish
her and her daughter the best of luck on all their future endeavors and three years of co-chair Shirley has been the best three years and we agreed to disagree on things but we built a relationship and there's no one else I'd rather be a coacher so thank you so much
shley yeah refus to wait till October oh my God you got it to the official June and I also want to thank all the parent leaders all the presidents Council presidents Representatives that have served this year have served in the past that may be graduating out or moving on
to middle school or high school please stay involved in your children's School you you you know how rewarding and thankful and less this can be but it does it is rewarding when you have the kids that like see you and they're like
that's the ice cream lady or Mommy that's the snack sale lady or something it really does make you feel good so please keep continuing to um advocate for your children and get involved and get other parents to get involved so to all the Pas ptas Title One slts
president's councils everyone thank you so much all right thank you the next is our next general membership meeting is scheduled for August 8th 2024 July we're taking a
break uh all right let's skip that real quick um Father's Day that should have been at the end father day happy Father's Day for everybody Flag Day uh is June 14th for those who celebrate and that flag the
you know share the flags those who celebrate it alahad h happy ID June two so let me go back so that's the 17th and there's no
school then celebrating um juneth that is June 19th this is no school either enjoy your happy summer holidays and that's it for um thing so I'm going
to stop the live stream