School Leadership Team (SLT) Meeting
Date: November 17, 2025
Start Time: 4:00 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Attendance
Name | Title | Present/Absent |
Shamika Simpson | Principal | P |
UFT Representative | Sydney Joshua | A |
K/1 Grade, Self-Contained Teacher | Amanda Davi | P |
Third Grade Teacher | Veronica Marzulla | P |
Technology Teacher | Deanna Calderon | P |
PTA President | Tyjuan Harris | P |
PTA | Tiffany Futch | P |
PTA | Kladys Ruiz | P |
PTA | Malaya Ince | A |
PTA | Erica Harris | P |
Agenda
- Celebrations/acknowledgements:
- Congratulations to Mr. Degia and our PS 201 Penguins for their win against PS 165 in their 3rd basketball game of the Season! We also want to extend our thanks to Mrs. Cyr for coordinating our PS 201 Cheerleaders’ highly-spirited performance at Friday’s game. Our uniforms look great!
- A very special thank you to Mrs. Wang and Ms. Pratt for securing a “free” opportunity for our scholars to participate in the NED Assembly!
- Thanks also to Ms. Mandel for organizing a successful Mobile library more than 50 percent of our scholars had an opportunity to obtain a library card and check out books.
- Our K-2 scholars had an amazing chance to learn a lot of new knowledge from FDNY on November 17th
- Congratulations to Mr. Miller (science teacher) for working with St. John’s University STEAM Program National Youth Leadership Forum: Pathways to STEM) The National Youth Leadership Forum (MYLF): Pathways to STEM is an Envision by WorldStrides program dedicated to the early identification, motivation, and inspiration of the nation’s most promising elementary school students. More than 27,00 teacher-nominated students have attended the forum for an experience that has been highly praised by educators
- A very special thank you to our School PTA and Engagement Committee, for planning a fun and engaging Trunk or TREAT, culminating in a Fall Festival & pumpkin give away! Photo opportunities :) It was so nice to see our staff, students and their families dressed up, taking photos or attending the Trunk or Treat.
- Upcoming events balloons over 201…
Minutes
- Celebrating Successes
- Basketball wins - teaching behavior expectations and responsibility
- Soccer team up and coming in 2nd half of year
- Mobile Library- students received a library card and enjoyed event
- Ms. Gregory arranged visit by FDNY to lower grades to discuss fire safety.
- 5th grade scholars to participate in STEM program at St John on the weekend -Mr. Miller secured opportunity
- PTA organized fall photos- successful
- Upcoming- Balloons over PS 201 and festival of lights
- Kindergarten resumes “Mystery Readers” inviting parents in to classroom to read a book to the class.
- Trunk or treat celebration success
- November book: Connecting read aloud to families at home
- Parent share out:
- Vision screenings upcoming
- Parents looking forward to offering as appointments are hard to secure
- In the classrooms:
- Decodables are being used throughout the classroom
- Math classes are building fluency skills
- WIN period is held in each class (teachers share out)
- Small group work 30-40 minutes
- Time to focus on a specific group of children and meet exactly what they need.
- Every student in class is engaged in a task while teachers are teaching small group with focused instruction
- Helps tailor instruction in classes with multiple grade levels
- Mrs Heskial shares out Teaching Labs progress
- Coach visits for a total of 14 sessions per year to provide in-service coaching
- Helps students reach grade level skills
- Both academic and social emotional
- Teaching labs will support multiple grades, upper and lower
- Marquis studio: Coming back this year to work with PreK and 3K
- Closing