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CHANCELLOR BANKS

FOUR PILLARS FOR BUILDING TRUST IN NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS

1.

REIMAGINING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

  • Career Pathways Initiative —creating career-connected learning and pathways for all our students to help activate their passion and sense of purpose.

  • Ensuring that all students graduate with a strong plan and head start on a pathway to the middle class, including financial literacy and civics skills.

  • Supporting our children to become strong readers.

  • Making sure every single one of our students is getting strong, phonics-based literacy instruction from the very start.

  • Building on the universal screening tools that identify risk for dyslexia to tailor more effective responses at the earliest possible ages; strengthening early childhood education.

  • Creating an Advisory Council on Literacy.

  • Virtual learning -expanding virtual options for students.

2.

SCALING, SUSTAINING, AND RESTORING WHAT WORKS

  • Identifying the amazing practices throughout our system and sharing via state-of-the-art knowledge-sharing system so that they become models that other schools can try to emulate.

  • Expanding opportunities for accelerated learning in every school.

3.

PRIORITIZING WELLNESS AND ITS LINK TO
STUDENT SUCCESS

  • Working with the Mayor’s office to increase the number of School Safety Agents.

  • Collaborating with community-based partners to support school safety, mental health, attendance, and enrichment.

  • Extending learning beyond the four walls of the classroom to feed the souls of our children with visits to museums, parks, and activities in the great outdoors.

  • Increasing our schools’ capacity to provide quality mindfulness practices that are scientifically researched, evidence-based, and culturally responsive

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