Q&A
DOE officials address concerns and highlight collaboration with CBO partners
1:05:56
·
3 min
DOE officials respond to concerns raised by council members and emphasize the collaboration between the Department of Education and Community-Based Organization (CBO) partners in the Summer Rising program.
- Officials highlight the strengthened partnership with DYCD over the past few years
- CBO counselors are present in classrooms alongside teachers and other support staff
- The collaboration allows for the integration of engaging activities like STEM, healthy cooking, chess, and mural painting
- Council members express concerns about the workload disparity between DOE teachers and CBO staff
- Questions are raised about whether the current model makes the best use of resources and provides adequate support for struggling students
Danielle Domingo
1:05:56
So I I think some of the things that you had said in in the beginning is over the past few years, we've really strengthened our partnership with aycd.
1:06:06
And the learning is really and the collaboration between principals and our CBO partners have allowed us to bring certain fun and engaging things into the classroom.
1:06:18
So one of the things that we know is that our aycd counselors are in the classrooms with the students and the teachers and the other supports.
Kha'ja
1:06:25
Which I
Althea V. Stevens
1:06:25
also have a problem with because the teachers live at 12.
Danielle Domingo
1:06:28
The teachers what?
Rita C. Joseph
1:06:29
They live at 12.
Althea V. Stevens
1:06:30
I have a problem with because the CEO staff is stretched because they're there from 8 to 6, and teachers live at 12.
1:06:37
And so that's also a problem because they do push in during that that portion of the day.
1:06:42
And let's also not pretend like there's not a partnership all year.
1:06:45
Right?
1:06:45
Like, we cannot continue to talk about summarizing as if it's this anomaly and it's separate.
1:06:51
These CBOs are in these schools all year long.
1:06:53
We know that there's a collaboration, a partnership.
1:06:56
Like, we know we need each other.
1:06:57
We work interconnected.
1:06:58
But I'm just, again, just saying, like, is this does this make the most sense?
1:07:02
And I think that we are at a critical moment where we need to stop and say, does this make and this this model in this way, and how's how's it moving forward?
1:07:11
And so, like, I like I yes.
1:07:13
They work they work all years together.
1:07:14
They they do push in.
1:07:16
The group leaders are in there, which I'm like, well, why aren't the teachers pushing in in the afternoon portion?
1:07:21
The enrichment portion, why is that not something we're doing when we're talking about collaboration?
1:07:25
Because and I get it.
1:07:26
It's it's, you know, the contracts, whatever.
1:07:28
But it's also like so they have a contract, so they leave and get replenished where my CDLs people are there and, like, working a crazy number of hours.
1:07:37
So it's just some of that stuff that just kinda, like, grabs my guess.
1:07:40
I'm gonna show because I feel like I'm gonna send you.
Danielle Domingo
1:07:42
It it it it also did allow us to to bring other experiences into the classroom like STEM activities, healthy baking and cooking, chess, mural painting across the schools that that students were proud to return to their schools and show that that that their work was happening.
1:07:58
All of those things allowed for opportunities to happen throughout the day.
Althea V. Stevens
1:08:01
But they that's done all year long.
1:08:05
Like, it's it's not and these after school programs are there, they do that type of work all year long.
1:08:10
And so, again, I'm just that's why I'm just stressing.
1:08:12
Like, I think we're at a moment where we need to stop and say, is this making the best sense?
1:08:16
Because if we have students who are mandated to be there in promotion and doubt, why are we not focusing on them and saying, like, let's give them the attention that they need?
1:08:24
And the CPOs are already doing it, so they've done it in the past where, you know, again, we all know that even young people being in summer camp, that's about keeping summer learning loss.
1:08:34
Right?
1:08:34
We don't want them to lose summer learning loss, and we know that that's what's the case, and it doesn't need to be in a classroom.
1:08:41
It doesn't need to be in a classroom because we know that these programs are educational supplements and not just babysitting.
1:08:47
And so that's why, like, it's not just saying, like, old parents.
1:08:50
They don't have a lot of options.
1:08:51
And so let's give them options that actually are a real option because we're kinda let's be clear.
1:08:56
We're at a place.
1:08:56
We're doing 12 year school.
