Our Schools. Our Future:
Conversations with the Chancellor

Join Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels for a series of in-person conversations across New York City focused on the future of our public schools.
Our Schools. Our Future: Conversations with the Chancellor is a citywide engagement series bringing students, families, educators, staff, and community partners together for honest dialogue about where our schools are today and where we must go next.
Across ten stops in every corner of the city, Chancellor Samuels will engage directly with communities to reflect on what safety, academic rigor, and true integration look like in practice, and how we strengthen our system for the years ahead. These conversations are designed to elevate lived experiences, surface shared priorities, and inform the Chancellor’s early direction for NYC Public Schools. This will also be an opportunity for families to share ideas for improving family empowerment in NYCPS, to ensure that family and community voices are at the table.
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Grounded in the Chancellor’s vision, these conversations will focus on safety, academic rigor, and true integration, while uplifting family empowerment and community voice.
This will be a space for meaningful dialogue and collective reflection, so that we can shape the future together.
Ten Stops. One City. Our Future.
| Date / Time | Borough | Location |
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Tuesday Feb 10, 2026 6:30–8:00 p.m.
| Staten Island | New Dorp High School 465 New Dorp Lane Staten Island, NY 10306
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Tuesday Feb 24, 2026 6:30–8:00 p.m.
| Manhattan | Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics 260 Pleasant Avenue New York, NY 10029
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Saturday Feb 28, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
| Brooklyn | Thomas Jefferson High School 400 Granville Payne Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11207
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Saturday Mar 7, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
| Queens | Channel View School for Research 100-00 Beach Channel Drive Rockaway Park, NY 11694
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2026 6:30–8:00 p.m.
| Bronx | Bronxwood Prep Academy 921 East 228th Street Bronx, NY 10466
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Saturday Mar 14, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
| Manhattan | Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus 122 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10023
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2026 6:30–8:00 p.m.
| Queens | Queens Innovation Center 53-16 Northern Boulevard Queens, NY 11377
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Tuesday Mar 24, 2026 6:30–8:00 p.m.
| Brooklyn | John Dewey High School 2471 Stillwell Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11223
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Saturday Mar 28, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
| Bronx | Roosevelt Educational Campus 500 East Fordham Road Bronx, NY 10458
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Saturday Apr 11, 2026 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
| Staten Island | Curtis High School 105 Hamilton Avenue Staten Island, NY 10301
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