Dinowitz swears in Superintendent Michael Prayor and asks for classroom examples
Dinowitz administers the affirmation to Michael Prayor, superintendent of Brooklyn South High Schools, and asks him to describe what Portrait-aligned learning actually looks like in schools.
Yeah, which I, and I want to hear from you.
I think I'll have to swear you in too, but I want to hear, and I want to hear like what it looks like.
Cause we can talk about like the idea of good assessment, but it's really important that what hasn't been spoken about, I think to so many of our teachers and principals is just like what it looks like.
And any teacher knows they go to the PD.
I've gotten the PD on like the project-based learning.
And, you know, all the time they ask, okay, so I still need to get my kids to pass the regents.
Like, how does this relate to the regents?
Like, we're measured on something.
Students are measured on something.
Schools are measured on something.
And we have to.
to know what that something looks like.
And as much as I, my feelings on the regents, at least we know what it looked like.
So that's, so if you could help elucidate that, that would be great.
I'm just going to, if you raise your right hand, do you affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth before this council?
Yes.
In your testimony?
Yes.
Okay, please state your name for the record.
Michael Pereira, superintendent of Brooklyn South High Schools.