LEADERSHIP TEAM MINUTES 2025/2026 School Year
5/7/2026
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Elissa Reilly Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Manpreet Kaur Shikha Alvarez Polixeni Damodaran Jennifer Chowdhury
○ Summer rising
■ Here at PS 191
■ 40 students who were on the waitlist were given an opportunity to attend
■ 280 seats offered
■ 2 classes per grade
● Prek classrooms will be kindergarten classrooms
● NEST program utilizing a couple classrooms
■ AM portion DOE staff
■ PM staff CBO staff
○ Budget
■ Summer rising is a separate budget
● Teachers, supplies, extracurricular activities
■ September 26/27- still awaiting
● Currently operating as if it is the same as last year
○ Construction/extension
■ We will also have construction in the East Williston yard
● Primarily an open space
■ Hoping to have the new building and playground construction at different times
○ State testing
■ Completed ELA & Math state testing
■ 5th grade will be taking the NYS science test on May 14th
■ NYSESLAT for ENL students
○ EOY
■ In the coming weeks, students will be taking assessments for their EOY data
■ iReady/acadience Math & ELA
■ Scores help us place students for the upcoming year
Next meeting: June 18, 2026
4/16/2026
Attended: Sabrina Gisone, Caitlin Kessel, Helen Parliaros, Elissa Reilly, Lisa Tice, Frances Tineo- Estevez, Manpreet Kaur, Shikha Alvarez, Polixeni Damodaran, Jennifer Chowdhury
● Summer Rising
○ At PS 191, entire school building will be used
○ Approximately 280-400 students here for Summer Rising
○ Instructional portion of the program 8-12PM
○ 12-2:30PM CBO portion of the program
○ Kids can start dismissing at 2:30
○ Pickup between 5 & 5:30 for others
● Class Size Law - Spacing
○ Extension building
■ Large extension where the current large playground is
■ New addition extending underground
○ Anticipated opening 2030
○ Families will be informed
○ Expansion will help the school with the class size law
○ Elevator
● Cluster Positions for 26-27SY
○ Clusters will remain the same
○ Art, science, music, PE
● Change of Start time
○ Safety concerns with bus traffic
○ The earlier we start, the safer it is for our students
○ Anticipated start time will most likely be earlier for next year
■ Still have 20 minute window for early dropoff
■ 8:00AM-2:20PM
● Town Hall District 26- May 11,2026 MS 74- Chancellor will be attending
Next meeting: May 21, 2026
3/19/2026
Attended:
Sabrina Gisone
Elissa Reilly
Lisa Tice
Frances Tineo- Estevez
Manpreet Kaur
Shikha Alvarez
Polixeni Damodaran
Jennifer Chowdhury
Caitlin Kessel (Not in attendance)
Helen Parliaros (Not in attendance)
Visits
● Chancellor coming 3/31
○ We were chosen for this district to visit
○ Events are planned
■ Wax museum
■ Experiences are what are remembered and what we want to showcase!
■ PTA will be handling balloons
Traffic
● Possible street closures, small chance the Mayor will also visit the same day 3/31
● Security will be in place
● Ms. Gisone will be speaking to the commissioner of traffic about the high traffic at school
○ Advocating for the surrounding blocks of the school to be one way Change of school start time
● Most traffic at 8:05-8:15
● Ms. Gisone is thinking of moving the start time of the school day to 8AM to alleviate some of the traffic
○ Doors would open at 740, parents can drop at 191 and then drop off at 172 if they have children in both
■ We have a 20 minute period for parents to drop off
○ Dismissal would be at 2:20
State exams
● Grades 3-5
● March 30th Ms. Horan will be giving a presentation to parents on the state exams Graduation dates
● 6/23- Prek graduation
● 6/24- K graduation
○ 9AM start, 8:45 parents arrive
● 5th grade graduation 6/25 at 9AM
○ Parents come in at 8:45
● Last day of school 6/26
Next meeting: April 16, 2026
2/26/2026
Attended: Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Elissa Reilly Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Manpreet Kaur Shikha Alvarez (Joined remote) Polixeni Damodaran Jennifer Chowdhury
Summer Rising Applications
● Applications open March 3 on MySchools.nyc
● Families should apply early to secure placement
● Information will be shared with families through school communication channels
March 5 – Half Day & Conferences
● Students will be dismissed at 11:25 AM
● All Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held virtually
● Families should contact teachers if they need scheduling support
March 6 - Dancewave Residency
● Grade 2 and Class 105 will participate in a dance residency
● Program funded by a District 26 grant
● Students will work with teaching artists
● A culminating performance will be held at the end of the residency
Career Day (March 9–11)
● Families invited to volunteer and speak to classes about their careers
● Opportunity for students to learn about different professions
● Encourages family involvement and real-world connections
Science Expo (March 19)
● Schoolwide science event
● Students will showcase projects and investigations
● Opportunity to highlight STEM learning
APEC Trip – April 1
● Selected classes will attend a funded trip to APEC with Council Member Linda Lee
● Lunch will be provided
● No cost to families
● Enrichment opportunity connected to community partnerships
Next meeting: March 19, 2026
1/15/2026
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Elissa Reilly Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Manpreet Kaur Shikha Alvarez Polixeni Damodaran Jennifer Chowdhury
● New Staff/Vacancies/Leaves
- 4th grade ICT special education vacancy filled with fully certified candidate
- Kindergarten maternity leave position soon
- 2nd grade maternity leave position as well
- Parents are aware of the upcoming changes
- 6 student teachers for the Spring semester as well
- 5 classroom, 1 for speech
● Title III After-school
- Benefits students and families as an after school program
● MOY Screeners
- Parents were notified of upcoming screeners
- iReady math took place this week
- ELA screeners beginning the week of January 20th
- Acadience and iReady assessments depending on grade level
○ PID- to inform parents of their child’s needs after the middle of year data is reviewed, teachers take into account and consideration students IEPs, ELL services and maybe even attendance issues, paper copy sent home of a letter as well as online
● School Events
- January 27th remote science expo meeting for parents 9AM
- Schoolwide science expo, K-2 done in class, 3-5 done at home independently or as a group
- Wax Museum January 30th at 9AM, other grades are invited to see it as well
- Latin Festival 5th grade February 12th with a 9AM start
● Free CASA After-school: Grades 2 and 3 - Council Member Linda fee and the farm funded this program beginning on February 2nd
● PTA Events - Virtual Meeting January 21st at 3PM
- NYC Rise representative will be there to speak to parents
- Winter Wonderland event (name may be changed) February 6th from 4-6PM
- Picture retake day February 6th as well, club pictures taken that day
● District Visit February 5th
- School visits are rotated, able to learn from each other
- Approximately 6 Assistant principals visiting with district representatives
● Ballroom Dancing Grant
- Grades 3-5
- First 30 kids Wednesdays till 330
- Culminating dance at the end of the program
● Grades 3–5 Simulation Schedule
- ELA CBT simulation Jan. 27
- Math simulation Feb. 2
- Grade 5 science Feb. 6
Next meeting: February 26, 2026
12/18/2025
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros (Attended remotely) Elissa Reilly Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Jennifer Chowdhury Manpreet Kaur Shikha Alvarez
Not present: Polixeni Damodaran
● Report Cards
○ Sent home with paper copies as well since families were not all using online platform to access them
○ Sent home the report card and parents to sign & return
● MOY Diagnostic/Testing
○ Grades K-5 Week of January 12th- iReady math online
○ K-2 Acadience test will be given by the tier 2 committee
○ MTSS team has been progress monitoring with acadience often
○ We will host a parent workshop to explain how to read the MOY diagnostic results once they are sent home
● Class-Size law survey
○ Follow up on last months meeting:
■ All nearly converted rooms must be at least 500 square feet
■ Requested common branch teacher for grade 1
■ Applied for a dance cluster teacher
■ Asked for a Q-rated position
● 3 days a week to provide reading services to grades 3-5
■ Requested to be revisited for possible extension
● Schoolyard renovation
○ Estimated cost $2.5 million
○ Students will have a say in creating the yard
○ Awarded $2 million
○ Short $500,000
● Ballroom dancing grant
○ From Councilwoman Linda Lee
○ More details to come
● After school clubs
○ Last day of title 3 afterschool is today
■ ENL students entitled to it based on their proficiency
■ $3,600 to cover 3 teachers for afterschool starting in January
○ Art club
■ $950 to fund for grade 3
■ Created the scenery for the Winter concert
○ Basketball, cheer & violin will continue into the near year
■ Basketball
● CHAMPS funding
■Cheer
● Funding for 7-8 Tuesday mornings to prepare for basketball games
■ Pep rally next Tuesday 12/23
● Basketball & cheer will participate as well as the other students
Next meeting: January 15, 2026
11/20/2025
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Elissa Reilly Frances Tineo- Estevez Jennifer Chowdhury Polixeni Damodaran Manpreet Kaur Shikha Alvarez
Not present: Lisa Tice (on leave)
● PPO Feedback
○ Deputy Superintendent visited
○ Areas of celebration
■ Families feel supported
■ Students feel a strong commitment to the school & their teachers
● They feel safe and love coming to school
● BOLT conversations, students living up to the standards
○ Areas of growth
■ Taking standards that students are lacking in and aligning the iReady instruction with them
● Class size law
○ By the end of 27/28 school year, expectation is that 100% of classes meet the law
○ K-3: 20 students/class
○ 4-8: 23 students/class
○ 9-12: 25 students/class
○ PE & Performing groups (all grade levels): 40 students/class
○ 191 Compliance rate as of 10/6/25 46.2%
○ Would like to apply for an additional 1st grade class & an additional cluster for next year (Possibly dance)
○ Also would like to apply for a full-time guidance counselor as opposed to our current 2 days a week
○ Apply for an extension to the school Next meeting: December 18, 2025
October 16, 2025
In Attendance:
Sabrina Gisone Anne Kang Elissa Reilly Jennifer Chowdhury Frances Tineo-Estevez Manpreet Kaur
BOY Data
● K-2 ELA
○ At or above benchmark: K -50%, 1st - 48%, 2nd - 48%
○ Below: K - 25%, 1st - 12%, 2nd - 24%
○ Well below: K- 25%, 1st - 40%, 2nd- 28%
● 3-5 ELA
○ At or above benchmark: 3rd- 61%, 4th- 29%, 5th- 29%
○ Below: 3rd- 15%, 4th- 46%, 5th- 31%
○ Well below: 3rd- 17%, 4th - 13%, 5th- 29%
● K-5 Math Data
○ 66% of students are just one grade level below
MTSS Progress Reports and Workshops ● October 28th - workshop on how to read Acadience and iReady data
● October 29th - progress reports distributed
PTC and Report Card Release
● November 6th - PTC
● December - Report cards are released
MTSS Support K-2 and 3-5
● Grades K-2: ATR (teacher that is available for school’s needs) will pull students who need the support. They will be pulled during WIN Groups.
● Grades 3-5: Ms. Isopo will support students who need help in literacy 3 days a week.
● MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support)
School-Wide Events
● Pumpkin Patch: 10/16
● Fall Harvest: 10/24 at 4-6PM
● Literary pumpkins: 10/20 - 10/31
● Parade: 10/31 at 9am
● Student Council Elections: 11/03 - parents with students who are running may join
● Election Day: 11/04 closed for students, teachers will be working remotely
● PTC: 11/06 - half day dismissal at 11:25am
● Town Hall Safety Meeting: 11/07 at 1:45pm in the auditorium
● Armed Forces Day: 11/10 - show your support for veterans, wear red, white and blue. Schools closed 11/11
● Balloons Over 191: K-2 11/20 at 8:45am in the auditorium
Clubs: Cheer and basketball
● Cheer team started practicing to represent the basketball team
● Basketball only in school for now
○ Funding comes from CHAMPS funding.
9/18/25
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Elissa Reilly Anne Kang Helen Parliaros (remotely) Poli Damodaran Frances Tineo-Estevez Jennifer Chowdhury Lisa Tice Shikha Alvarez (remotely)
Not Present: Manpreet Kaur
Topics discussed:
● Review of Roles
● Review of By-Laws (absences and remote options)
● Overview of last night’s Back to School night (190 parents attended) - thinking of switching the times to accommodate parents with multiple children
● Review of our NY State Scores in ELA and Math - 7% increase in ELA - 14% increase in Math - 15% increase in NYSESLAT scores
● PS 191 made the most significant gain in D 26 in Math proficiency from 2024-2025 - 12.92 point gain
● School Priorities
1) Sustaining and innovating curriculum implementation
2) MTSS - using i-Ready, Acadience, and progress monitoring, as well as year 2 implementation of BOLT
● BOY Screener Information
Math - K-5 between 9/29 -10/3
ELA - K-5 between 10/6 - 10/10.
Parent reports to be distributed end of October
Nov. 6 - PTC teachers will review results with parents
● In-School Chorus (4th and 5th grade) - new protocol for 2025-2026 - parent letter sent home, tear-off returned if the child is interested, along with teacher approval. Chorus might have additional practice after school
● Student Council - staff recommendations for students to participate in elections
● Cheer Team - for 4th and 5th grade students - morning program - cheer team will be traveling with the basketball team for scheduled games - no more than16 students total ● Title III Funding - allocated for after school programs - beginning October 1 - Dec. 28 - students must meet the criteria (ELL students)
● Mr. Greengold - can facilitate violin donation from St. Francis Prep, will target grade 2 for violin instruction
6/12/25
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel (Joined remotely) Helen Parliaros Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Sita Harillal Binu Pillai-Abdul Jennifer Chowdhury Joelle Sidial Not present: Anne Kang(On leave)
- EOY Letters
- Children just took the last screener to see progression from the beginning of the year to the end
- Getting sent home to families
- 75% kindergarten on grade level
- Report cards released last day of school, in afternoon
- Future (tentative) class will be indicated in notes, don’t assume teachers due to teacher movement
- Music Vacancy
- Mrs. D retiring
- Actively looking for teacher, interviewing
- Hiring process is very rigorous
- Committee consists of union representative, cluster teachers and Mrs. Geniti
- Council Member Linda Lee
- Receiving funding for AC in auditorium, upcoming!
- September 2025/May 2026 In person Parent night
- We voted for in person meet the teacher night in September to help support families
- We enjoy getting the families into the building and giving them the opportunity to meet their child’s teachers
- We want families to be involved in their child’s education and what is going on in class/school regularly (middle school as well)
Notes: First day of school for students is Thursday, September 4th.
5/15/2025
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Frances Tineo- Estevez Sita Harillal Binu Pillai-Abdul Jennifer Chowdhury Not present: Anne Kang(On leave) Joelle Sidial Lisa Tice
- IM Visit
- District 26 visitors who are new at implementing Illustrative math next year
- Next year all schools in D26 will implement IM
- Hosted two sessions today 5/15 to see the program in action
- District office was here as well
- Walked them through our journey from last year - now
-EOY Data
- Letter will be sent home soon to inform parents that children will be taking the end of year screener in the coming weeks
- iReady Math K-5
- ELA K-2 Acadience
- ELA 3-5 iReady
-Teachers will use the data to create groups for the upcoming years
- End of year events
- 6/23 Pre-K Graduation
- 6/24 Kindergarten Graduation
- We will have elections taking place in the school but will not impact graduation
- Additional security will help out
- 6/25 5th Grade Graduation
- Ceremony will be held in the auditorium, pictures will be taken in the yard weather permitting
- Father’s day craft June 11, 2025 6:15-7:30
- Look out for registration, 50 participants- 25 pairs of parent/child
Next/final meeting for this school year: June 12, 2025
4/10/25
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Sita Harillal Joelle Sidial (Joined remotely) Binu Pillai-Abdul (Joined remotely) Jennifer Chowdhury Not present: Anne Kang(On leave)
● Budget- Academic Sprint
○ Certain students targeted for an extra boost in iReady usage
○ Each school in the district was provided with money
○ Short morning program to log into iReady in school
■ Mypath
○ Families were notified if their child was invited
● Registration
○ Projections
■ Historically how many register, how many move out
○ Kindergarten offers came out
■ 54 offers made by DOE
■ Hoping to fill 3 kindergarten classes
○ Grades 1-5 = 2 classes per grade
○ Self Contained
■ Possibility of 3 classes, projected numbers are small
■ Projected numbers of students coming into self contained-
● 1 - Kindergartener
● 2 - 1st graders
● 3 - 2nd graders
● 1 - 3rd grader
● 3 - 4th graders
● 2 - 5th graders
● NYS Testing
○ April 28th and April 29th- Grades 3-5 taking ELA online
○ April 30th- May 2nd= Makeup window for ELA exams
○ May 7th and May 8th- Grades 3-5 taking math online
○ May 12th- May 14th= Makeup window for ELA exams
○ Science Exam Grade 5- May 14th
■ Makeup May 15th & May 16th
○ Rally has helped students to become comfortable with the online platform
● ELL Testing
○ Monday we come back from Spring break
○ Speaking portion first
○ Provider cannot score their own students
○ May 12th- other portions, listening and writing Next meeting: May 15, 2025
3/20/25
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Anne Kang Caitlin Kessel Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Sita Harillal Joelle Sidial (Joined remotely) Binu Pillai-Abdul (Joined remotely) Jennifer Chowdhury
Not present: Helen Parliaros
● IM Parent Experience
○ Parent feedback
■ Helpful to see how the math is being taught so parents can help more with homework ■ Students took charge and expressed themselves
■ Possibly incorporate more IM related material in the May PTC
● Surveys
○ Complete if parents have not done it already
● MOY Data
○ Update given to parents at PTC
○ We have shown growth as a school from September to now
○ May/June EOY diagnostic
○ ELA
■ K-2 50% of students at or above benchmark for MOY
■ 3-5 increased 14% in iReady
■ K-5 students in WIN group if below benchmark
● Small group instruction 3x per week
● Students moving around based on their needs
○ Math diagnostic
■ Increased 14 points from BOY to MOY
● PPO Visit
○ Students spoke about how happy and safe they feel coming to our school each day
● Clusters Positions for next year
○ Anticipating music, gym, art & science for next year
● Mural
○ Hallway near cafeteria
○ Possible idea thumbprints of the students on a tree
● School Wellness Policy
○ Nutritious meals & snacks emphasized
○ 120 minutes of active movement
■ 2 weeks of PE and move to improvement combined
■ NYC fitness gram
■ 20 minutes of outdoor recess when possible
○ Health education ■ K-6 HIV lessons ○ Nutritious meals supplied in the Summer as well
Next meeting: April 10, 2025
2/13/25
Attended: Sabrina Gisone, Caitlin Kessel, Helen Parliaros, Lisa Tice, Frances Tineo- Estevez, Sita Harillal, Joelle Sidial, Binu Pillai-Abdul, Jennifer Chowdhury
Not present:
Anne Kang
● MOY- Screener Letter to families
○ Acadience & iReady (K-2)
○ iReady (3-5)
○ PTC- discuss this data with families on 3/6
● Mets Ya Gotta Read
○ Grades 1-5 reading incentive returning after the break
○ Launch February 24th (100th day as well)
○ Assembly February 25th to explain to students
○ Teachers collect logs, add up minutes read per week
○ Earn prizes and in the end a voucher to go see a game
● 100th Day of School 2/24
○ Outfits with the number 100
○ Some even dressed up as if they were 100 years old!
● IM Parent Experience
○ March 4th Prek-2
○ March 11th Grades 3-5
○ Classroom experience of the math practices
● Indian Dance Assembly for students
○ Outside organization coming in to celebrate Holi and the Spring season
○ March 18th afterschool Holi celebration
■ Parents will be required to pre-register
● Science Fair
○ Mrs. Torres has started to transition into her new role
■ Still working close with 2nd grade to help transitions for all be smooth
● PID letters
○ Letters were sent out to families for promotion in doubt
Next meeting: March 20, 2025
1/16/24
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Anne Kang Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Sita Harillal Joelle Sidial Jennifer Chowdhury Binu Pillai-Abdul
- Projections 25-26
- Based on enrollment and prior years data
- To determine how many classes on each grade
- NYC school enrollment decreasing
- Kindergarten classes going from 3 to 2
- Numbers based off Pre-k and K applications for next year
- 50 kids projected- 2 classes
- Science Cluster/2nd Grade
- We had a teacher express interest in the position last year
- Actively interviewing
- 5th graders have to be prepared for the state test at the end of this year
-IM Spotlight Visit
- Principals conference 1/7
- Showcased Illustrative math in our school
- AP conference 1/21
- Similar to 1/7 visit
- Spotlight 2/14
- Superintendent with elected officials
- Similar presentations: our math journey, how the students feel about the math, identify math ambassadors/student tutors
- Student speakers, teachers presenting and parents invited as well to join as guest/speak about their experiences
- Parent views: See a productive struggle, happy that grades are not based soley on IM exam
- Discussed/explained cooldowns, section checkpoints, unit tests and homework assignments
- MOY
- Completing middle of year assessments
- PID (Promotion in doubt)
- Parent outreach for children very below grade level
- Take many factors into consideration
- Attendance impact on academic performance
- iReady/acadience data
- HMH/IM data
- Teachers have reached out prior to a PID letter being sent home
- Letters are not sent home unless we have done everything we possibly can and the student is still not making progress
Next meeting: February 13, 2025
12/19/24
Attended:
Sabrina Gisone
Anne Kang
Caitlin Kessel
Helen Parliaros (Virtual)
Lisa Tice
Frances Tineo- Estevez
Sita Harillal (Virtual)
Joelle Sidial (Virtual)
Jennifer Chowdhury
Absent:
Binu Pillai-Abdul (Virtual)
PPO Visit
Superintendent Inzerillo came to visit
Classroom visits & phys. ed class
Feedback
Decline in State math scores across our school
Changes made:
Math curriculum to illustrative math
Second year with HMH, teachers are more comfortable this year
Students starting in kindergarten are getting familiar with computer based testing to help prepare them for state tests in the future
WIN periods: adjustments made for smaller groups and students are grouped off their abilities not their classes
Students may be in a WIN group with another teacher
Progress monitoring is being done to make sure students are making progress
Focus on how to get IEP students and ELLs up to par
IM- Materials
All grades K-5 were fortunate enough to receive materials to help support the curriculum and lessons
Students are able to have a conceptual understanding of why the math is happening
Ex: Connection between base ten blocks manipulatives and place value
iReady and acadience assessments
We are almost at the middle of year testing period
Families will be notified, encourage the students to put in their best effort
Results help shape the next steps in the classroom
CBT/Rally
Grades 3-5 will be taking computer based testing (CBT)
There is a testing window, so not all schools will be taking them on the same days
Students were given a Rally/rehearsal assessment for them to become familiar with the platform and tools available with CBT
To help teachers for their future instruction as well
Ex: If most of the class only gave 1 piece of evidence, teachers will help students to focus in on the need to provide 2 pieces of evidence in short answers
Principals Conference
21 Principals coming from district 26
Updates will be given from the Superintendent
Mrs. Gisone will give an update of PS 191 IM journey to help other schools in the district prepare for the curriculum switch
Reminder the Title I K-2 funding dinosaur discovery dome will be tomorrow
Next meeting: January 16, 2025
11/21/2024
Attended: Sabrina Gisone, Anne Kang, Caitlin Kessel, Helen Parliaros, Lisa Tice, Frances Tineo- Estevez, Sita Harillal, Joelle Sidial, Binu Pillai-Abdul, Jennifer Chowdhury,
Kerry Izurieta (PAC)
- Title 1 PAC- Bylaws and updates
- Ensure effective engagement of parents & family members of title 1 participating children
- Engage parents and family members of participating students in an organized & timely manner
- Recruit parents of participating students for involvement in professional development meetings, conferences & other activities
- Provide information to parents of participating students regarding questions, concerns and ideas
- Develop title 1 spending plan
- Officers
- Mandatory: Chairperson & alternate chairperson
- Non-mandatory: recording secretary
- Term: July 1- June 30
- Bylaws reviewed annually
- December 20th- Dinosaur globe excursion for PreK-2nd grades
- 1 parent per child will be allowed to join their child on this in school trip
- Brainstorm a program for grades 3-5
- Lego robotics
- Mobile ed: Outer space dome, science assembly
- Laser Light show
- Cooking classes
- Small class size
- City schools deadline 2028
- K-3 20 students
- 4-8 23 students
- High school 25 students
- The school needs the space to be able to apply for the trial for the upcoming school year
- Luckily our school already has these smaller class sizes already
- Clubs
- Grade 4 students were invited to rank choices for clubs of interest
- Robotics, basketball, chorus & art afterschool programs
- Some 5th graders will be invited to clubs
- Expand extracurricular activities for the students
- Make sure all students are well rounded in an extracurricular experience
- Reading support 3x a week
- Accommodate the school by having a retired teacher help students in grades 2-4 for ELA
- IM Math
- Good turn out for the parent workshop
- Have received a lot of parent feedback
- Taking other factors into consideration for report card grades
- iReady and other areas of math in general, also taking into consideration that it is a new curriculum
- Critical thinking, quality over quantity in terms of questions and homework questions
- Student Government
- Donors choose to get a book vending machine at PS 191
- Incentivize what is happening at the school
- Ex: BOLT code, mascot Zap
- Building one leader at a time
- Students are responding very well to the mascot and the program
Next meeting: December 19, 2024
10/17/24
Attended: Sabrina Gisone Anne Kang Caitlin Kessel Helen Parliaros Lisa Tice Frances Tineo- Estevez Sita Harillal Joelle Sidial Binu Pillai-Abdul Jennifer Chowdhury
● Beginning of year data
○ Grades3-5 iReady assessment, data given to us to group students for WIN periods (What I Need)
■ 38%tier 1- at grade level
■ 35%tier 2- 1 grade level below
■ 27%tier 3- 2 levels below grade level
○ MTSS comes up with plan of action by grade level based on data
○ Grades K-2 Acadience testing for phonics and phonemic awareness
○ WIN periods- students may be receiving support from other teachers/staff members due to groupings of specific needs
● Parent teacher conferences
○ November7, 2024
■ Teachers will share data on where your child performed
■ Held remotely, afternoon/evening calls from teachers
■ Teachers will be calling from blocked numbers or a google meet based on teacher preference
■ Parents will receive data a few days prior to PTC before explanation
■ December10, 2024 NYC schools account with an official report card
● Parents need to sign up for the account
○ Includes attendance, state exams, report cards & any notifications
○ Idea to send letters home for parents to create these accounts
■ Start by grade & then individual families/students
● Illustrative math & NYC Reads workshops for parents
○ NYCreads: different pillars of reading components that help you to become a reader
■ Phonemic awareness (sounds you hear) & phonics (dictation) focus explicit teaching
■ November12, 2024 NYC reads parent workshop to provide information for the supports we are providing in school
○ Illustrative (IM):
■ Parents have addressed frustrations
● Workshop- Monday 10/21 both virtual and in-person
○ 9AM virtual & 2:40PM in-person
● More of an exploration in the program versus computation
● Fluency is still necessary
● Apps available to support parents in assisting at home
● Professional learning coming in for the teachers as well
● Flash cards sent home at the end of last year discussed
● Encouragement for children to complete iReady lessons at home (mypath is for individual student needs)
● Title I PAC Update
○ Parent Advisory Committee
■ Students will benefit from an event
■ Target chronic absenteeism
■ Homeschooling would at least provide support to a child while they are away long-term
Concern brought up regarding students on trips and kids all blending in and how to constantly count Structure supervision and chaperones better- increase number of chaperones for outdoor trips especially Ex: This parent will be responsible for these 4 students
Reminder to sign up for annual school leadership team training on Tuesday Oct. 22 at 7PM
Next meeting: November 21, 2024
9/19/24
Attendance: Courtney Horan (in place of Sabrina Gisone), Anne Kang, Caitlin Kessel, Helen Parliaros ,Lisa Tice, Jennifer Chowdhury, Sita Harillal, Binu Pillai-Abdul, Joelle Sidial (via teams) Frances Tineo- Estevez.
Introductions of new SLT members
Update bylaws SLT roles and responsibilities New roles accepted: Anne Kang- Chair Frances Tineo-Estevez- Co-chair Caitlin Kessel- Recorder
School year overview 191 mission School year priorities-- Support HMH with a coach------ Heggerty- K-2 Fundations- K-3 Illustrative math (IM) (first time) Math project: “NYC solves” PL, intervisitions team meetings to develop our understanding of IM MTSS iReady screeners Interventions: fundations double dose, Heggerty, phonics for reading in ELA Data chats
9 Days of Love at PS 191 Built community-- Different activities each day for the students “Scribble stones” : team/community building book, placing stones outside in our garden Different activities outside of school Fall festival, APEC
Teacher-Principal Trust Survey Parent- Principal Trust Survey Survey- lowest area : 86% responded positively about student discussions/discourse. New math curriculum will hopefully help improve this area.
Social Media for 191-- Instagram & X Goal: go live more often for families who are unable to attend.
Attendance 23-24: Improved, school attendance rate 93% is above city attendance rate 91% ENL data-- Programmed in Lower grades have more ELLS than higher grades Possibly tested out ORS reports PBIS School mascot Earn “bolts” Brave, optimistic, leading, team player Screeners ELA & math- Spring 2024 iReady Acadience HMH&Instructional Reports State test scores-- HMHdaily basis Math summative Analyze subgroups IEPs NYCsolves,
PS 191 happenings Back to school Registration Connections beyond 191 Linda Lee funded us for laptops in the future-- SCA: school construction authority- $ for pavement of school yard Schoolyard renovation with trust for public land (down the line).
Title 1 PAC (parent advisory council) New to 191 this year-- Based off of lunch form returns PAC consists of only parents.
Next meeting: October 17, 2024
LEADERSHIP TEAM MINUTES 2023/2024 School Year
Leadership 10/19/2023
Leadership Norms- Start and end on time
Respect differing views
Remain engaged
Support final decisions
Review By-Laws and Revise
Mission Statement Changes to incorporate nurturing environment, rigorous curriculum, and including more parent involvement.
Vision-How to get them there by engaging the students in an active learning environment
No less than 5 members
Election for Leadership position
No more parent newsletter The Mayflower
Change in unexcused absences from 2-3
School Community members can speak for more than 3 minutes now
Quorum 5 members instead of 6
Shared drive for all to see minutes and agendas for meetings no more mayflower
Amendments change 10 to 8 members
Chancellors Regs A-412 November 29, 2023 6pm LIC High School Safety training-optional
WIN Periods
“What I need”-giving students small group instruction
Pulling students after core instruction for things they might need
Not just in the small groups once…3 periods in teacher schedule and they’ll get a cycle of what they need and progress monitored. Holds the students for a longer period of time. Builds capacity based on whatever the child needs. If a student struggles with one skill, groups of students will be reached. Kids in all classes can come together in groups. I can have jessie and our kids.
Could be for enrichment as well
Title 3 Programs
ELL 30 ELLS or more
Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Afternoon Wed and Thur both for 45 minutes 3rd December 4/5 will go
Reinforces the school day but helps with all modalities speaking and listening
This is only open to ELLs and when parents approach teachers and other parents explain it’s not for the gen pop
Panorama v Dessa
Goal setting assemblies and how to be a better citizen
How to keep them persistent
Habits/routines
Leadership 11/16/2023
New member elected
Common Point After school Program- Samuel Field Y 3-6:30 every weekday. Additional fees for busing and program. $420 a month $190 for bus $610 total for both busing and program. Can work with them on busing prices. Different from Beacon because of the bus and it’s offered to all students including K-5.
After School Program-title 3 ENL program Wed/Thurs before and after school. We will be having an additional after school for just a specific type of student. More to come. Follow criteria with integrity but there could be a backup list if the intended families aren’t able to send their kids.
Title 1- By Dec 1st forms should be submitted. Gives allocation based on forms. Should be title 1 next year. We’ll probably have a title 1 free program for after school. That money could go towards paying for ICT teachers in classrooms that aren’t at capacity.
Public Notice-Expanding M153 K-5 They want to expand to K-8. Parents can join hearing.
Amendments to Chancellor’s Regs- A412 Security in schools. They added that arresting students happens off campus.
Leadership 12/21/2023
Celebrations: winter concert went well, circle of dance ended for k-2
Respect for all winners-district office-students submitted an essay and won or a runner up.
Circle of dance funded by a grant, low budget program so we are able to do it for 3-5. It’s a residency that doesn’t charge a lot. We’re all grateful. Dancing through the decades. Begins in January. Dance show second week in February.
Soapbox-assembly k-5 participated. Calls students to speak out about issues that are important to them. FEB 2 students who voted will rep the school at preliminary rounds. If they get chosen they’ll go to the soapbox NYC event. The kids loved it. Recess equipment was a big one.
Recess needs more structure-using money for needs of the school. Let the kids talk about and vote what items they want at recess and create a menu of voting they want, and use funding to buy those things. Zones for students to play. Try to restructure what recess looks like. Meets their needs and motivates safety.
Title 3 after school morning (grade 3) and after school (Grades 2,4,5)
Middle of year screener k-5 opens from January 2 through February 9th Acadience and iReady online
State test CBT computer based testing 5th will be taking a mock ELA, math and science exam in January…real tests are in April and may for ela and math respectfully. Grades 3-4 will take a paper test.
Data results online for scoring 3s and 4s
55% 3. 64 ela/math
74% 4 78
60% 5 68
Attendance increase to 92% compared to last year it was 32% for chronic absent and this year its 27%. Strategically planning events to try to deter parents from taking extended vacations.
Next meeting January 18
Leadership 1/18/24
Next meeting 2/15
Promotion in Doubt letter-review with parents. Based on midyear assessments (accadience/HMH) (iReady and HMH), (Envisions). Different for each grade. Doesn’t mean they’ll be held over or need summer school it just means they aren’t on grade level right now. Level 1 (59 or below) cumulative average will get the letter. They’ll get one letter for ELA and math. On that letter we will also take into consideration the classwork for the child…projects, discussions, etc.
Going partnership with METS to “Mets you gotta read rally”
Reding incentive program
If they read books, theyll get a prize per base. 1st base, second base, etc gets incentivized.
Mets store in the gym when they hit x amount of books
Feb 8th Mr. Met will come and we’ll have an assembly with press
Feb 9th Winter wonderland from PTA
Week of 12th-16th is respect for all week. Mrs. Horan, Gisone, student gov, equity warriors, Anastasia and Jasmine came up with daily activities. Each day will have a targeted respect initiative. Teachers will have specific discussions as well. They can push in to discuss respect for all (Jas and Ana)
2/14 pretzel sale
PTA 16th-special respect hip hop assembly
Leadership 2/15/24
Parents will be invited in march to visit their child’s teacher to see HMH. It’ll be a nice to have parent engagement and showcase how the lessons are student directed and give parents a glimpse of what’s going on. 45 minute quick check in and the March 7th we have PTC. Pre-k Families come as well to see the curriculum which is different than HMH.
We are going to have robotics coming to 191. Lego robotics coming in march. It’s called Bricks for Kids. If the teachers and students like it we could bring it to 191. They can meet with SLT and then speak to us on march 21st which by then most of the classes will have the session. If it’s interesting, they can do it once a week $15 a session once. week. 4-6 sessions for 45 minutes. Sab and Court will test out different presenters and find one that’s engaging. Rotating cycles of grades. 30 students per class. Maybe it would be 4th and 5th graders first etc.
MOY Data Middle of yer data for ELA and Math which told us where the children are performing academically. K-5 my students account will have the data. Sabrina will send home a message when we come back from break and teachers will review the data during PTC. It’s based on accidence and iReady.
M056, M490, M535 are having construction.
School Leadership Training video-We watched it 30-45 minutes mandated training that we all need to take. History of SLT, bylaws, CEP, following chancellors regs, budget, roles of SLT, implementing school wide programs for students who may be at risk, election process, DLT district leadership team….
Sabrina will write some of the CEP goals for the school. They take into consideration data from teachers and use that data to write the goals then communicate that with parents. It’s based on how we can help students and what we can do to make the students achieve more. We are going to finish watching the video next month and look at what the CEP was last year and how it can be changed for next year.
Next SLT March 21
Leadership 3/21/24
Bricks for kids- provides hands on workshops in and after school. Mostly in D26. Progressive hands on where students can build automobiles and learning about the mechanisms. Also learns about cranes, jackhammers and other mechanics. Very hands on. Build and play, customize and play with what they build. It’s designed also for after school for 1 hour each week 10 weeks $300 per child. K-5 20 students per class and depending on needs could be on different days. K-2 in one group and 3-5 in other. At 115 one of the parents volunteer each week to assist. Parents can register online through the company or they can do it through the school. They’ll be doing back for free to work with the lower grades again. They’ll also be coming to 4-5th the 26th and then in may for K. He wants to expand to an hour. Bricks for Kids family event in May. First 75 people who sign up will get invited for this event.
Possible new math program-Possibility to change it for next school year. Ms. Kessel has been going to monthly meetings and turnkeys what she sees. We are preparing for these upcoming changes by implementing some activities in the classes. In May there will be a spotlight visit at another school, where possibly parents can go see it in action. Possibly an SLT parent. Probably will be at 133.
MOY Data-Shared Acadience and iReady data to families letting them know how there students were doing. Based on that info, we created WIN periods and groups to give them additional supports in areas they need. K is performing much better this year than last. They ended the year last year with the amount of progress that we have in our classes now. How are students performing on these tests and HMH and progress monitor what progress is being made. Also compare iReady BOY to now.
Chronic absences have improved. More events do help.
CEP Goals need to be written and will be done as a team with SLT.
Next meeting April 18th!
Leadership April 18th, 2024
Review the new math program
We created a math team to cover the pre implementation to the Illustrative Math (IM) program. Schools have an option if they want to implement this next year but that by 25-26, we will need to implement it fully. Since we have to do it anyway, why not just do it next year and test it out. IM will prepare our students for middle school since they don’t have a choice in doing the program.
It’s more of an exploration for the kids to do on their own before the teacher teaches explicitly.
We went over the data on why we would implement this next year from the plan. The math team decided to implement it and will watch another school at the end of may doing it in their classes.
This program comes with online components to bring our students more to date with the new testing. All of the tests will be online along with the state tests. It’s also supposed to be much more engaging with initial activities for the students to do independently and with partners. It starts with the you do, we do, I do model instead of I do, we do, you do. It’s more complex questions but the quality is much better. Depending on the skills and concepts there are still some lessons that will require more explicit teaching.
The program comes with resources for families. There is a parent portion that helps explain things they can do to help support the work happening in the classroom.
We want to become better at the trial next year so that when we do have to implement the program, our kids are supported and makes transitions to middle school easier for them. We are norming the math curriculum.
May 29th, P.S.26 will be hosting us to show how we should be running the program in our school. May 10th, P.S.133 will be spotlighting the program for parents.
NYC schools get core curriculum and this new math program is part of it. If we implement it next year and opt in we will get some materials without killing our budget.
Leadership `June 2024
Registration in August for new students
August 30 PreK and K orientation 9:00am and 10:00am
Principals in playground August 30th 11-1145
7:55-8:15 early drop-off
September 12th 3:15-6:15 Back to School Night
Meet the Mrs. Gisone, Mrs. Horan, Mrs. Geniti, the PTA, and the teachers.
ELA/Math EOY Data
53% Acadience of k 1 and 2 students are at grade level
53% Acadience are better
63% iReady on or above grade level
60% at or above 100% of typical growth
47% are on grade level or above in math
Grade 3 made 73% progress where kids are on grade level with iReady
We will need some time to get into the math curriculum and group students based on support needs.
Mrs. Geniti sent home math fluency facts for families K-4 to help these kids with basic skills to come back stronger in September. Kids need to get stronger at fact fluency and number sense.
Anne, Elissa, and Lisa will be on Leadership next year as the new team.
Sabrina is working on the CEP and plugging in data for the new school year.
September 5th is the first day of school.