SLT Meeting

Date:                        

 May 19, 2024

Start Time: 4:00 PM

End Time: 5:00 PM

Attendance:

Agenda and Minutes:

Tackling Attendance at P.S. 201

Attendance Focus: Attendance Challenge: Please continue to color in the appropriate date’s puzzle piece each day your class has perfect attendance. The class, at each grade level, with the highest number of pieces colored in at the end of the month will receive a whole class surprise!

Supporting & Partnering with P.S. 201 Families  

 Vision Screening

C.A.S.A. Visual Arts Program 2025 Culminating Event  (5.20.25)

Career Day (5.23.25)

Addressing Trauma, Social and Emotional Well Being  

❖ Ramapo Training: Fostering Trauma-Informed Practices Grade 1

❖ Elevate Education: Select students in Grade 4 participate in skill-building workshops during lunch and recess

EOY Assessments

Acadience

i-Ready

End of Unit Assessments

Celebrating All Cultures

Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month:This month we celebrate the culture, history, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in New York City and across the country. The reason the month of May was chosen was to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, in recognition of the Chinese immigrants who made up a majority of laborers completing the work on the project. In addition, it commemorates the arrival of the first Japanese immigrant to the United States on May 7, 1843.AAPI Heritage Month celebrates communities with roots throughout the Asia-Pacific region, encompassing the entirety of the Asian continent, as well as the countries and territories that make up the Pacific Islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Coming from such a wide geographical area, the Asian American and Pacific Islander community has a rich and varied history and culture to learn more about all month long. Please click on the following link to access classroom resources to celebrate Asian Pacific Island Heritage during your content area blocks this month.

Minutes:

Attendance

• We will brainstorm ideas to increase attendance

• Gaming and special programs that peak student interest did bring an improvement in attendance (as seen in Minecraft Mornings Program)

Supporting & Partnering with P.S. 201 Families  

• CASA culminating event is tomorrow

• Video link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pk0KQ5znb8EWfjOQKHAhJBYPowk4mipw/view?usp=sharing 

• Veronica Marzulla shares reflection of experience

• Students enjoyed experience
• Over 6 weeks students went through an experience of creating puppets from raw materials.

• Career Day

• Students will explore a variety of career paths
• We will look at weaving more experiences that expose students to career choices.

• Reflection on student enriching experiences

• Bioengineering in Science
• STEM, Minecraft, Robotics and 3D design
• Coding

Addressing Trauma, Social and Emotional Well Being

We are focusing on specific grades where students seem to have more need. For example, 4th grade may have more students with infraction in OORS over another grade so they would be a grade that is focused on.

• RAMAPO

• Organization chose us to support our school needs
• People come in to observe classrooms and identify trigger points.
• Teachers are already empathetic to students but now we are looking for extra support.
• Rewards students can work towards
• Looking at strategies that don’t work
• Ramapo will look at trauma and how to work with children who have experiences trauma
• We are targeting 4% of student population but this will benefit entire school community

EOY Assessments

• State testing is now complete
• NYSESLAT completes this week.
• Over the next month, students will engage in end of year assessments to monitor growth/progress in Acadience, i-Ready, End of Unit Assessments

Celebrating All Cultures

• Teachers are provided with resources through weekly emails to celebrate and recognize many cultures.

Q&A

PTA question: Can a child be held over if reading isn’t up to par? Is there a choice that the parent can make.

Response: Mrs. Simpson explains process of looking at the whole student when considering whether a child is heldover or promoted, at the school level and through communications with the district and central offices. However, there is room for conversation with the family.

PTA question: Will promoting a student that is not ready lead to placing a student in District 75? Parent expresses concern that a child may inevitably be placed is District 75.

Response: Mrs. Simpson explains process of evaluating a student with assistance of Mrs. Joshua and assures parent that child will not just be “jumped” into District 75.

PTA question:  5th grade child polled his peers and found that student body would like to see more arts.  Parent expresses thankfulness for creating more clubs and would like to know if it is possible to get more arts teachers (Music, art, etc…)

Response: Mrs. Joshua responds that art was included in past practices. Administration found a way to include arts in the curriculum, ie: hiring a sub that comes in a certain number of times per week to work as an art teacher.

Mrs. Simpson reflects on grants and programs that we did weave in this year (Marquis studio, Ballroom, etc.). Mention of a sub that we know can teach music. We will look into having Mr. Archer to commit as a sub for the next year.   The school is looking into another company that will work with various grades to teach music, pending funding.

Mr. Archer- can he commit as a permanent sub that implements a music program (ie: Music Mondays with Mr. Archer, or use a “Music substitute” as the teacher for days when we would hire a sub anyway to cover teacher meetings and PDs.)

We can dedicate time in day to art, as in drawing and such. For example, students enjoyed art activities at recess when they could not go out.

• Share CASA video

• Teacher reflection on all standards and skills addressed in this program
• Teacher considers implementing a “Discovery” period where this type of learning can be experienced by all students and not just clubs