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Manhattan HS Team made up of Marisol, Chris, William Mark, and Parent Liasion.

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Manhattan HS Team made up of Marisol, Chris, William Mark, and Parent Liasion.

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There are 40 schools in the District (including New Visions, Consortium, and Urban Assembly Schools)

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There are 40 schools in the District (including New Visions, Consortium, and Urban Assembly Schools)

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First Principal Conference held with all Manhattan Rosales and Walsh schools. Multiplication is For White people is read. Networks are given a farewell, MBO is introduced.

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First Principal Conference held with all Manhattan Rosales and Walsh schools. Multiplication is For White people is read. Networks are given a farewell, MBO is introduced.

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There are 39 schools in the District. The District's school make-up starts to look much like it does today. 

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There are 39 schools in the District. The District's school make-up starts to look much like it does today. 

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System focus for equity is SWDs.  All screened schools except Stuy are made to enroll SWDs towards Borough Averages (Baruch, ElRo, Museum, Bard)

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System focus for equity is SWDs.  All screened schools except Stuy are made to enroll SWDs towards Borough Averages (Baruch, ElRo, Museum, Bard)

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District Team visits in the Fall begin with every team member present, not just TDEC.

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District Team visits in the Fall begin with every team member present, not just TDEC.

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Pilot: Inclusive Classroom with ICT teachers begins focused on 9 schools and 18 ICT teachers. Prof. David Connor leads PD on special education.

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Pilot: Inclusive Classroom with ICT teachers begins focused on 9 schools and 18 ICT teachers. Prof. David Connor leads PD on special education.

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Rigorous Expectations:  71.74
Teacher-Student Relationships: 62.42

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District 4-Year June Graduation Rate: 83.2%

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District 4-Year June Graduation Rate: 83.2%

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95.01% Asian
94.05% White
76.72% Black
76.64% Hispanic

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September 2016: Jared joins the District Team as Director of Advanced Academic Access

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September 2016: Jared joins the District Team as Director of Advanced Academic Access

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AP for All Initiative is launched in our District, including grant money

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AP for All Initiative is launched in our District, including grant money

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Assistant Principal Conferences begin using district texts and PoP.

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Assistant Principal Conferences begin using district texts and PoP.

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Theory of Action: If we strengthen principal capacity to lead, implement, and supervise a strategic instructional action plan aligned to the district problem of practice then student intellectual engagement will increase in all classrooms.

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Theory of Action: If we strengthen principal capacity to lead, implement, and supervise a strategic instructional action plan aligned to the district problem of practice then student intellectual engagement will increase in all classrooms.

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The first Data Team Leaders Conferences are held (now known as Data Specialists)

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Instructional Rounds begins: looking at patterns, outliers, evidence of POP, and Questions (the original quadrant document), schools broken up into Professional Learning Groups.

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Instructional Rounds begins: looking at patterns, outliers, evidence of POP, and Questions (the original quadrant document), schools broken up into Professional Learning Groups.

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Texts used, Delpit's Math is for White People, Lee Mun Wah's Curious listening prompts, Adaptive Leadership, green book on rounds.

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Texts used, Delpit's Math is for White People, Lee Mun Wah's Curious listening prompts, Adaptive Leadership, green book on rounds.

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Instructional Leadership Team created, which serves as a Principal Think Tank.

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Instructional Leadership Team created, which serves as a Principal Think Tank.

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Teacher Leaders Series created, knee to knees introduced by Marisol.

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Teacher Leaders Series created, knee to knees introduced by Marisol.

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Rigorous Expectations 71.52 (Down .26)
Teacher-Student Relationships 62.43 (up 0.01)

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May 2017, District Team attends Beyond Diversity” Training with Leidene King for the first time.

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May 2017, District Team attends Beyond Diversity” Training with Leidene King for the first time.

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Prior to the AP Symposium events, we brought in the College Board to provide PD to teachers for per session pay

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District 4-Year June Graduation Rate: 83.39%, up 0.19% from 2016

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District 4-Year June Graduation Rate: 83.39%, up 0.19% from 2016

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94.96% Asian
93.40% White
77.54% Black
76.18% Hispanic

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Supt. Rosales introduces Courageous Conversations to Parent Coordinators

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Assistant Principal conferences incorporate CC and Instructional Rounds

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Assistant Principal conferences incorporate CC and Instructional Rounds

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Social Worker/Guidance Counselor Series is launched for one year.

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Social Worker/Guidance Counselor Series is launched for one year.

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District Team uses Google Drive for the first time.

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District Team uses Google Drive for the first time.

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THEORY OF ACTION: If we strengthen principal adaptive capacity to lead, implement, and supervise a Strategic Instructional Action Plan guided by the work of equity and the Instructional Core then the full diversity of learners will be intellectually engaged.

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THEORY OF ACTION: If we strengthen principal adaptive capacity to lead, implement, and supervise a Strategic Instructional Action Plan guided by the work of equity and the Instructional Core then the full diversity of learners will be intellectually engaged.

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Supt. Rosales and Damaris host a mini series with parent leaders on Race

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Rigorous Expectations: 72.57 (up 1.05 points)
Teacher-Student Relationships 63.09 (up 0.66 points)

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Year Two: Teacher Leaders Series. 4 R's introduced to Teacher Leaders before other groups. CCAR happens at start of every session.

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Year Two: Teacher Leaders Series. 4 R's introduced to Teacher Leaders before other groups. CCAR happens at start of every session.

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Text introduced: CCAR by Glenn Singleton

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Text introduced: CCAR by Glenn Singleton

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Black and Latino Male Student Task Force begins, 12 schools, 24 students with partnership with JALC.

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Black and Latino Male Student Task Force begins, 12 schools, 24 students with partnership with JALC.

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The first AP Symposium was held

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District June 2018 4-Year Graduation rate: 86.79% (39 Schools)

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District June 2018 4-Year Graduation rate: 86.79% (39 Schools)

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94.92% Asian
95.37% White
82.03% Black
81.40% Hispanic

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Vivian becomes Superintendent, Marisol becomes the Executive Superintendent.

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Vivian becomes Superintendent, Marisol becomes the Executive Superintendent.

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NYS Integration Grant awarded to Community District 1 and Community District 2:  Damaris represents Manhattan High District in initial planning 

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NYS Integration Grant awarded to Community District 1 and Community District 2:  Damaris represents Manhattan High District in initial planning 

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Damaris continues courageous conversations work with Parent Coordinators and gets approval for grant fund to be used to do Courageous Conversations work with Adult Allies across two school years (6 sessions)

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Assistant Principals focus on implementing school ToA and equity.  Present work throughout the year.

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Assistant Principals focus on implementing school ToA and equity.  Present work throughout the year.

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47 Schools in the District. 8  schools added.

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47 Schools in the District. 8  schools added.

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Theory of Action: If we strengthen the adaptive capacity of school based leaders to create the conditions necessary that foster an equitable and integrated school anchored in the instructional core then we will raise the achievement of all students and close the racially predictive achievement gap. 

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Theory of Action: If we strengthen the adaptive capacity of school based leaders to create the conditions necessary that foster an equitable and integrated school anchored in the instructional core then we will raise the achievement of all students and close the racially predictive achievement gap. 

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Subgroup: Black and Latino Male students are explicitly highlighted.

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Subgroup: Black and Latino Male students are explicitly highlighted.

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BLMSTF renamed Student Equity Leaders, expands to all 47 schools from the original 12.

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BLMSTF renamed Student Equity Leaders, expands to all 47 schools from the original 12.

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SEL Think Tank created of Black and LAtino male Allies

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SEL Think Tank created of Black and LAtino male Allies

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Allies attend series by PEG.

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Instructional Rounds become EQuity Rounds

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Instructional Rounds become EQuity Rounds

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4 R's rolled out to all strands and used at PDs.

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4 R's rolled out to all strands and used at PDs.

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Edie FErgus text on Dispro used. Hammond Text used.

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Edie FErgus text on Dispro used. Hammond Text used.

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Video calibration exercise focused on 4r's

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Video calibration exercise focused on 4r's

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Relative Risk Ratios for Discipline (Through January 2019)

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Relative Risk Ratios for Discipline (Through January 2019)

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BLACK MALE | BLACK FEMALE | HISPANIC MALE
All Discipline | 4.17 | 1.74 | 1.83
TRemov | 2.24 | 2.59 | 1.80
Principal's | 4.49 | 1.65 | 1.62
Sup'ts | 5.18 | 1.82 | 2.01

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Rigorous Expectations: 72.83 (up 0.26)
Teacher-Student Relationships 63.53 (up 0.44)

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Relative Risk Ratios (through June 2019)

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Relative Risk Ratios (through June 2019)

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| BLACK MALE | BLACK FEMALE | HISPANIC MALE
All Discipline | 3.80 | 1.73 | 1.72
TRemoval | 4.53 | 2.05 | 1.68
Principal's | 3.50 | 1.87 | 1.59
Sup'ts | 5.19 | 1.37 | 2.08

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Implicit Bias required for all Manhattan teachers and APs who are up for tenure

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Implicit Bias required for all Manhattan teachers and APs who are up for tenure

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Post Leidene processing at next principal conference

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Post Leidene processing at next principal conference

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Team members shared their whys to different stakeholders and the team.

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Team members shared their whys to different stakeholders and the team.

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Push for understanding of systemic racism looking at red-lining.

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Push for understanding of systemic racism looking at red-lining.

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Office of Equity and Access partners with district:  Incubator Schools and Disproportionately (Pace HS and Health Professions onboards)

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Office of Equity and Access partners with district:  Incubator Schools and Disproportionately (Pace HS and Health Professions onboards)

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District June 2019 4-Year Graduation Rate: 87.77%, (47 Schools)

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District June 2019 4-Year Graduation Rate: 87.77%, (47 Schools)

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96.15% Asian
96.31% White
81.82% Black
82.78% Hispanic

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Opportunity to hire significant number of new principals allowing district to increase representation of leaders of color

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Opportunity to hire significant number of new principals allowing district to increase representation of leaders of color

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PC work shift to CR-S Family Engagement Framework with a continued focus on the most vulnerable subgroups

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Damaris starts on-site 1:1 support visits to PCS

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Assistant Principals lead a department in implementing CRSE/Hammond/Equity Goals.  Instructional Round Groups visit every school.

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Assistant Principals lead a department in implementing CRSE/Hammond/Equity Goals.  Instructional Round Groups visit every school.

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January 2019 Helen joins the Team

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Helen receives a copy of Glenn Singleton text to engage in conversations about race with Team Members and at various Conferences.

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Helen learns about:
MHS District Team, each strand, and school communities

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48 Schools in the District. 2 new schools added, we lose one.

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48 Schools in the District. 2 new schools added, we lose one.

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Theory of Action; If we strengthen the adaptive capacity of school based leaders to create the conditions necessary that foster an equitable school anchored in the instructional core and culturally responsive-sustaining education (CR-SE) then we will raise the achievement of all students and close the racially predictive achievement gap.

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Theory of Action; If we strengthen the adaptive capacity of school based leaders to create the conditions necessary that foster an equitable school anchored in the instructional core and culturally responsive-sustaining education (CR-SE) then we will raise the achievement of all students and close the racially predictive achievement gap.

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subgroup: Black or Latino Male students; Students with Disabilities; English Language Learners

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subgroup: Black or Latino Male students; Students with Disabilities; English Language Learners

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January 2020 Mark Rush joins team as Deputy

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January 2020 Mark Rush joins team as Deputy

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Relative Risk Ratios (through January 2020)

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Relative Risk Ratios (through January 2020)

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BLACK MALE | BLACK FEMALE | HISPANIC MALE
All Discipline | 4.19 | 1.99 | 1.68
TRemoval | 2.44 | 2.76 | 2.75
Principal's | 3.48 | 2.07 | 1.65
Sup'ts | 8.46 | 1.50 | 1.76

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Rigorous Expectations: 73.04 (All-time high)
Teacher-Student Relationships (64.34 All-time high)

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97.45% Asian
97.13% White
87.31% Black (up 9.76 from '17)
87.56% Hispanic(up 11.38 from '17))

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District June 2020 4-Year Graduation Rate: 91.4%, up 3.7% from June 2019

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District June 2020 4-Year Graduation Rate: 91.4%, up 3.7% from June 2019

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97.45% Asian
97.13% White
87.31% Black
87.56% Hispanic

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June 2020 Demographic Graduation Data Breakdown

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June 2020 Demographic Graduation Data Breakdown

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Advanced Regents Diplomas for ...Black students is 32.74% (up 18.74 from '17)
....Hispanic students is 36.98% (up 5.98 from '17)

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Introduction of Digital Tenure Portfolios

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47 schools in the District, with Marta Valle's closure.

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47 schools in the District, with Marta Valle's closure.

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New York City Start of School  with In-Person & Remote Options

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New York City Start of School  with In-Person & Remote Options

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The system's 1.1 million children will not return to school until Sept. 21.

Agreeing to a major demand from the teachers' union, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would require monthly, random testing of students and staff. Credit... John Minchillo/Associated Press

Of all the challenges that Mayor Bill de Blasio faced in his push to reopen the nation's largest school system in a pandemic, the city's powerful teachers' union presented the most formidable obstacle, threatening an illegal strike as soon as this week.

But after a flurry of late-night negotiations, the mayor reached a deal early Tuesday with unions representing teachers and principals, clearing the path for New York City to become the only major school district in America to welcome children back into classrooms this fall.

The city's 1.1 million schoolchildren will now start both remote and in-person classes on Sept. 21, 10 days later than originally scheduled.

The new timeline gives educators more time to prepare for the country's most closely watched reopening effort, and provides the mayor with a longer runway to pull off one of the most ambitious, and riskiest, city initiatives in decades.

"For the nation's largest school system to come together in unity and say, we are going to get it right, and it won't always be easy and there'll be tough moments along the way, but we're going to get it right - that's a statement," Mr. de Blasio said during a morning news conference.

Seated beside the mayor was Michael Mulgrew, the influential leader of the United Federation of Teachers, who just a few hours earlier had been publicly warning of a strike. With a deal in place, Mr. Mulgrew considerably shifted his tone, declaring "that the New York City public schools system has the most aggressive policies and safeguards of any school system in America."

But Tuesday's announcement did not ease the difficulties Mr. de Blasio and the unions still face.

While the city has made progress in distributing personal protective equipment to schools, hiring nurses for every school building and upgrading ventilation systems in classrooms, that work is far from complete. And even with the extra time, principals will need to scramble to address the staffing issues necessary to create two complementary versions of school, one in-person and one online.

Now that the city has agreed to a number of union demands, the onus will fall again on the city's educators to actually make the reopening plan work. Many principals have spent the last few weeks inside their school buildings, preparing for students.

The announcement followed weeks of escalating pressure from union leaders, elected officials, teachers and principals who said they would not be ready to reopen as planned on Sept. 10. The city's teachers' union, which has not staged a strike in nearly half a century, was poised to authorize its 75,000 members to walk off the job.

Agreeing to a major union demand, Mr. de Blasio said the city would require monthly, random testing of between 10 and 20 percent of students and staff in all city school buildings starting in October, with results ready within 48 hours. Students and staff members who refuse to get tested will not be allowed in school buildings.

Teachers will report to schools as scheduled next week, and will start meeting with children virtually to review health and safety rules and ensure that all their students have devices for remote learning.

The deal was announced about a week before school was scheduled to begin, leaving working families already desperate for clarity about schools with little time to rearrange their schedules.

Still, if the mayor succeeds in bringing many of New York's children back into classrooms, he will stand apart from every other big-city mayor in America, all of whom have opted to start the school year remote-only, as the virus has surged in their cities and political opposition to reopening has intensified.

Earlier this summer, large urban school districts from Los Angeles and Chicago abandoned or reversed their plans to offer in-person instruction, and said they would re-evaluate when the virus was better contained in their cities. Scores of rural and suburban districts have also started the year with fully remote classes.

By some estimates, half of America's children will spend a large chunk of the fall learning remotely. If New York succeeds in its venture, its reopening process could be followed by other cities; if it fails, it could be a template for what to avoid.

The stakes of the reopening endeavor in New York pushed the mayor and union leaders to start negotiating in earnest over the weekend, with the school start date and testing protocol for students and staff left as the two major outstanding issues.

City Hall staff members exchanged emails, some with 60 responses each, between 4:30 and 7 a.m. on Tuesday. At around 8 a.m., the mayor called the union leaders and asked them to come to City Hall for a final meeting.

The frenzy of late-night talks were in keeping with the last few frantic weeks of preparation, and understandably so: The push to reopen schools, which is crucial for New York City's economic recovery, has been an enormous effort.

The schools chancellor, Richard A. Carranza, began a recent memo to principals with a reminder of the tremendous pressure that the administration was under. "There are many things that keep me up at night," he wrote. Mr. Carranza had begun a virtual meeting with parents the other evening at 6 p.m. and finished just before 4 a.m.

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Students will return to classrooms that have been transformed to accommodate social distancing protocols. Credit... Pool photo by Jeenah Moon

The mayor pushed his team by arguing that the system's mostly low-income, Black and Latino students urgently needed in-person classes, an assertion widely supported by education experts.

New York has an enormous population of vulnerable public schoolchildren who have been largely failed by remote learning: About 750,000 public schoolchildren in New York City are poor, roughly 200,000 have disabilities and 114,000 are homeless.

But the mayor's insistence that schools would be ready to reopen as originally scheduled on Sept. 10 frustrated many teachers and principals, who said they did not believe Mr. de Blasio understood the depth of the challenges they faced on the ground.

Officials have vowed to distribute four million face masks, 3.5 million bottles of hand sanitizer and 80,000 containers of disinfectant wipes. More than 3,500 electrostatic sprayers - special equipment that has been used on the subway - are being deployed to disinfect surfaces.

But getting personal protective gear and sufficient soap and hand sanitizer into the city's public school buildings is only a first step.

Teachers raised concerns about ventilation in aging school buildings and said they did not understand how often they or their students should be tested.

Beyond safety concerns, educators said they did not know how many children would actually report to school, or how many staff they would have to teach students in the building and online.

Under the mayor's plan, most children will report to school between one and three days a week, and have online classes the other days. They will return to classrooms that have been transformed since they left suddenly in March.

Desks will be spaced six feet apart, so most classes will have only nine or 10 children at a time, about a third of the typical capacity. Students, teachers and other staff will be required to wear masks all day, except for a quick lunch period held in classrooms.

The schools chancellor, Richard A. Carranza, left, and Mayor Bill de Blasio have prioritized upgrading school ventilation systems before classes resume. Credit... Pool photo by Bebeto Matthews

Many hallways will be marked with signs indicating where students should line up to maintain distance in hallways and bathrooms. Windows will be open, even during cold and rainy days, to allow for more fresh air.

The research on school reopening in places with similarly low virus transmission rates largely bolsters the mayor's decision to welcome children back into classrooms. Research from Europe has shown that schools can successfully open as long as the virus is contained in their region and families understand there will be some unavoidable turbulence.

New York City has so far defied predictions of a second wave of the outbreak. In recent days, the positivity rate for virus tests has hovered around only 0.6 percent, far lower than the national average. Mr. de Blasio has said schools will not reopen, or will automatically close, if the citywide average positivity rate reaches 3 percent.

Public health experts generally agree that the city's schools can reopen, as long as adequate testing and strict safety measures are in place.

Reopening schools could also help stabilize the economy. Nearly 70 percent of employers ranked the reopening as one of the three most important issues determining their employees' return to the office, according to a recent survey conducted by a business group, the Partnership for New York City.

Still, a broad coalition of elected officials and parent groups had called on the mayor to delay the start of school by at least a week, joining the teachers' and principals' unions and more than two dozen City Council members. The Council speaker, Corey Johnson, and Jumaane Williams, the city's public advocate, had also sought a postponement.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had also cast doubt on the mayor's decision, at one point saying he was unsure he would send his daughters if they were still of school age. Mr. Cuomo has said all schools in the state can reopen, but has been conspicuously absent from the push to reopen schools in New York City.

On Monday, Mr. Cuomo said he expected the turbulent experience of colleges - many of which have had to at least temporarily shelve their in-person education plans, following outbreaks - to be "replicated" by the state's schools.

"I think you will see K-to-12, just like colleges, they'll have a plan, they'll open, and that you will see a certain number that close," Mr. Cuomo said.

No New York City mayor has faced this much pressure over a single decision in the last century, said Wilbur C. Rich, a professor emeritus at Wellesley College who has written two books on mayoral politics.

"I hope he can pull it off, but I really think that it's going to be very difficult," Professor Rich said. "If it collapses on him, that's going to be his legacy - he's the guy who sent these kids back to schools."

White parents are more willing to send their children back into classrooms than parents of color, according to a recent poll conducted by The Education Trust, a research group. About 34 percent of city parents have already decided to keep their children at home full time, and that number is almost certain to climb over the next few weeks.

Still, over 600,000 families are tentatively planning to send their children back into schools later this month.

"Having all of the major parties come to the table and work out an agreement that will help New York's children and families is a big deal," said Rebecca Kirszner Katz, a parent of two public school children and a former mayoral adviser who has frequently criticized the mayor this year. "De Blasio has become a punching bag for months, but this is arguably one of his best moments, and now we just have to hope this works."

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New York City Delays Start of School to Ready for In-Person Classes

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The system's 1.1 million children will not return to school until Sept. 21. Of all the challenges that Mayor Bill de Blasio faced in his push to reopen the nation's largest school system in a pandemic, the city's powerful teachers' union presented the most formidable obstacle, threatening an illegal strike as soon as this week.

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Theory of Action: If we strengthen the adaptive capacity of school based leaders to mobilize teachers to create classrooms anchored in the instructional core fully aligned with culturally responsive-sustaining education (CR-SE) and create school-wide antiracist systems and structures then we will raise the achievement of all students and close the racially predictive opportunity gaps.

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Theory of Action: If we strengthen the adaptive capacity of school based leaders to mobilize teachers to create classrooms anchored in the instructional core fully aligned with culturally responsive-sustaining education (CR-SE) and create school-wide antiracist systems and structures then we will raise the achievement of all students and close the racially predictive opportunity gaps.

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Nov. 2020, City hits 3% infection rate, schools are closed city-wide

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Nov. 2020, City hits 3% infection rate, schools are closed city-wide

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Choose Cultivating Genius as District text

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Choose Cultivating Genius as District text

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District 2 Screened school principals meet with Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack to make final argument to geographically unscreen for upcoming school year 2021

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District 2 Screened school principals meet with Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack to make final argument to geographically unscreen for upcoming school year 2021

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NEW YORK - High schools will reopen for in-person instruction on March 22, and the city will phase in a return of high school sports beginning next month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and incoming schools chancellor Meisha Porter announced Monday.

"My priority as chancellor is to open, open, open," Porter said. "And I'm thrilled that we are making good on that."

What You Need To Know

High schools will reopen to students for in-person classes on March 22, after closing in November

PSAL sports, which have been suspended since last March, will be phased back in, beginning in April

Only students who already opted in can attend class in person, but remote students will be able to play sports in person

About 55,000 students in grades nine through 12 who have already opted in to in-person learning will be able to attend classes in person, at about 488 high schools across the city. Staff in high schools - about 17,000 employees citywide - will return on March 18 and 19.

About half of high schools will be able to serve all or most of their students five days a week, the city says.

"There's so many reasons we need them to be back where loving, caring adults, trained professionals are there to support them," de Blasio said. "Think about that child that right now is feeling a little helpless and lonely. What is going to mean for them on Monday, March 22, when they walk back through the door of their high school, see their friends, see their teachers and have hope again."

And for the first time since schools shut down last March, the city will allow public high school students to play sports - the Public School Athletic League will return in mid April, the city says, with strength and conditioning. Competitive play will begin in May, and for the first time, will run through the summer.

Students learning remotely will be eligible to play sports in-person, the city says. Weekly testing will be mandatory, as will masks, and spectators will not be allowed.

"All sports, but with strict safety protocols with a phase-in to make sure our student athletes are ready to make sure it's done safely," de Blasio said.

The reopening of high schools comes more than three months after all schools in the city closed in mid-November, as cases of Coronavirus surged.

The city reopened schools in phases, saying that was necessary due to the more intensive coronavirus testing regimen put in place as part of the reopening. Elementary schools reopened in December and middle schools followed in late February.

High schools present more challenges, the mayor and the education department have said, because students typically would have many classes a day with different groups of students. In order to slow the spread of coronavirus, students are no longer changing classes and are grouped into cohorts - but that's much harder to do in high schools because not all students in the same grade take the same courses.

For that reason, many high schoolers had what was essentially a remote experience even when they were in-person - sitting in classrooms or auditoriums but using a laptop or iPad to learn from a teacher who may have been in another room in the same building.

Some high schools are currently being used as vaccination sites. Those sites will be relocated by early April, the DOE says. They'll remain open with their normal hours during spring break, which is March 29 through April 2. Appointments between when schools open on March 22 and when spring break begins on March 29 will be held before or after school hours, or on weekends.

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Public High Schools to Reopen March 22; PSAL Sports to Resume in April

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NEW YORK - High schools will reopen for in-person instruction on March 22, and the city will phase in a return of high school sports beginning next month, Mayor Bill de Blasio and incoming schools chancellor Meisha Porter announced Monday. "My priority as chancellor is to open, open, open," Porter said.

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Paris McKenzie from Health Professions and Human Services, also the youngest Black owner of a beauty supply store is our first student guest speaker.

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Two Student Equity Leaders currently serve on the superintendent's equity team, the Manhattan Equity Focus Group.

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Student Equity Leaders Naomi Dookie from Manhattan Center for Sciences and Mathematics& Ronald Richardson from Richard R. Green HS and have worked with the Office of Teacher Development to collaborate on Professional Learning Projects.

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Check out the lessons that have been submitted so far: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kT_RFOBU0Me5MvNVtRUxrMS8vDKg3Dkl/view?usp=sharing