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Dinowitz asks for classroom-level examples, not just timelines

New York City Council · Sep 22, 2026 · starts 0:26:24 · 1 min 16 sec

Dinowitz says principals and teachers have heard broad strokes and timelines but not what Portrait looks like in the classroom. He asks what rigorous experiential learning actually looks like and how it differs from a regular class project.

Eric Dinowitz

So I want to kind of summarize a little bit so far for that question of what it looks like.

Eric Dinowitz

Asset mapping, you've gone to all your high schools, or are you focused on sort of your PBATs, like your old schools?

Alan Cheng

So what we have done is we've met with every single superintendent, and the superintendents run their principal meetings.

Alan Cheng

And so this spring, we met with every single principal, not just the high schools, not just the high schools in my former district, but really across the system.

Alan Cheng

I want to turn it over to Katie Hansen, who can also speak a little bit more about some additional continued engagement that we've been doing.

Eric Dinowitz

And I just want to try to be focused.

Eric Dinowitz

I want to get away from the timeline.

Eric Dinowitz

Sure.

Eric Dinowitz

And I'm communicating to you what teachers, principals, administrators, superintendents have communicated to me, that they've gotten a lot on the timeline, a lot on the broad strokes.

Eric Dinowitz

But not really a lot on what it looks like in the classroom.

Eric Dinowitz

Like what is a rigorous experiential learning and how does that differ from just like a regular class project that a teacher might do, you know, a two-day little project.

Eric Dinowitz

So if you can incorporate that, I would appreciate that as well.