The board of trustees of NYFACS rep­re­sents a diverse group of New York-based busi­ness lead­ers, edu­ca­tors and par­ents who are ded­i­cated to the goal of cre­at­ing an excit­ing new school for New York City, where stu­dents can emerge aca­d­e­m­i­cally strong and flu­ent in both Eng­lish and French.

NYFACS char­ter: NYFACS rev sept11

NYFACS TRUSTEES, Novem­ber 2011

Georges Khal­dum (end of term April 2012), Chief Admin­is­tra­tive Offi­cer, joined Harlem Children’s Zone in 1991 as the Pro­gram Direc­tor of the Tru­ancy Pre­ven­tion Pro­gram.  Prior to becom­ing CAO he also served as COO and Deputy to the Pres­i­dent.  As COO, Mr. Khal­dun has been instru­men­tal in the plan­ning and expan­sion of Harlem Children’s Zone’s 21 pro­grams and cre­ation of the char­ter school, Promise Acad­emy.  Dur­ing his 19-year tenure, the Harlem Children’s Zone has more than tripled its num­ber of employ­ees, par­tic­i­pants and pro­grams offered.  Mr. Khal­dun has par­tic­i­pated on var­i­ous pan­els and has spo­ken before a num­ber of audi­ences on strat­egy, pol­icy and imple­men­ta­tion of (HCZ’s) com­mu­nity devel­op­ment ini­tia­tives. His pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence is both as a teacher and a prac­ti­tioner.  Mr. Khal­dun was pre­vi­ously an eco­nomic devel­op­ment spe­cial­ist for the national NAACP, a pro­fes­sor at Bermuda Col­lege and an adjunct pro­fes­sor at the Col­lege of New Rochelle.  Mr. Khal­dun holds an AB in Gov­ern­ment from Bow­doin Col­lege, while there he stud­ied at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics.  He has a Master’s Degree in Edu­ca­tional Pol­icy from Teacher’s Col­lege, Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity, and has com­pleted Colum­bia University’s Busi­ness School Exec­u­tive Man­age­ment Train­ing Pro­gram.  He is the recip­i­ent of numer­ous awards includ­ing the Thomas J. Wat­son Fel­low­ship and the Charles A. Rev­son Fellowship.

Dr. Fab­rice Rouah (end of term March 2012) is a quan­ti­ta­tive finan­cial ana­lyst spe­cial­ized in deriv­a­tives val­u­a­tion and risk man­age­ment at Sapi­ent Global Mar­kets in New York. Before join­ing Sapi­ent, he was Vice Pres­i­dent in the Enter­prise Risk Man­age­ment group of State Street Cor­po­ra­tion in Boston. He is a for­mer Fac­ulty Lec­turer and Con­sult­ing Sta­tis­ti­cian in the Depart­ment of Math­e­mat­ics and Sta­tis­tics, McGill Uni­ver­sity. He is the co-author of a best-selling book on option pric­ing and of four books on hedge funds.

Elis­a­beth Cros  — While attend­ing Con­tin­u­ing and Pro­fes­sional Stud­ies at Baruch Col­lege, Elis­a­beth is cur­rently the Speech Ther­a­pist, Lin­guist and Learn­ing Spe­cial­ist at Ecole Inter­na­tionale de NY, which offers a French-American cur­ricu­lum to inter­na­tional stu­dents.  She is an active mem­ber of  French Amer­i­can Aid for Chil­dren, which sup­ports insti­tu­tions that care for chil­dren in need, such as The Children’s Store­front School in Harlem.   Elis­a­beth is a Sub­sti­tute  Teacher and the Ped­a­gog­i­cal Coach at  the Car­refour de la Fran­coph­o­nie, an asso­ci­a­tion ded­i­cated to pro­vid­ing  French classes  to African Chil­dren from Fran­coph­one families.

Elis­a­beth has been work­ing in France for more than 20 years as a lib­eral and pri­vate Speech Ther­a­pist; as a Teacher, a Ther­a­pist, and a Lin­guist for Deaf, Autis­tic, and non-Francophone chil­dren in pri­vate and pub­lic Insti­tu­tions.  She has com­pleted grad­u­ate train­ing for health and edu­ca­tional pro­fes­sion­als and with the French branch of the National Cued Speech Asso­ci­a­tion.  She has writ­ten sev­eral essays about Lan­guage and pathology.

Dr. Colleen Thouez  is senior train­ing and research advi­sor at the main train­ing arm of the United Nations, the UN Insti­tute for Train­ing and Research (UNITAR) located in Geneva Switzer­land. For six years until 2010, she headed UNITAR at the UN Head­quar­ters in New York, train­ing thou­sands of diplo­mats annu­ally on inter­na­tional law and the UN sys­tem, devel­op­ing pro­fes­sional adult learn­ing and secur­ing major grants from gov­ern­ments, the pri­vate sec­tor and foun­da­tions. She is also Adjunct Pro­fes­sor at the School of Inter­na­tional Ser­vice at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity in Wash­ing­ton DC. Pre­vi­ously, she taught gov­ern­ment offi­cials around the world on inter­na­tional human migra­tion and refugee law. Dr. Thouez’s eldest child is a NYFACS pupil.

Sev­er­ine Pic­quet is a native Parisian, going on her fourth year as a New Yorker. Her entre­pre­neur­ial spirit led her to start her own pub­lic rela­tions com­pany at 22 years of age, after receiv­ing her degree in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Eco­nomic Intel­li­gence. With ten years of expe­ri­ence as a com­mu­ni­ca­tions expert and media liai­son, Sev­er­ine has led pub­lic rela­tions cam­paigns within the edu­ca­tion, IT, cul­ture, and food & bev­er­age sec­tors. While in France, Sev­er­ine was active within the Social and Eco­nomic Coun­cil of France (Con­seil Economique et Social de France) and helped run the annual youth empow­er­ment con­fer­ences under the New Gen­er­a­tion Com­mis­sion as part of MEDEF Mou­ve­ment des Entre­prises de France (French Busi­ness Con­fed­er­a­tion). Well con­nected within the French com­mu­nity of New York and rais­ing her own 9-year old daugh­ter, Sev­er­ine pri­or­i­tizes high edu­ca­tional stan­dards in the French-American school­ing sys­tem. As new mem­ber to the NYFACS board, Sev­er­ine con­tin­ues her pas­sion for the well being of stu­dents and the devel­op­ment of their education.

Claire Zaglauer is cur­rently serv­ing as PTO Pres­i­dent at NYFACS. Claire holds a Mas­ter of Sci­ence Degree in TESOL: Teach­ing Eng­lish to Speak­ers of Other Lan­guages.  She is a tenured teacher for the NYC Dept. of Edu­ca­tion in the South Bronx, she cur­rently teaches 11th grade in the sub­jects of Alge­bra, Global His­tory and French at the Bronx Guild High School.  She offers a wide breadth of teach­ing expe­ri­ence includ­ing the first class of the Bilin­gual French Kinder­garten at P.S. 84. Claire was raised in a Fran­coph­one house­hold with a immi­grant father from France and a bilin­gual Amer­i­can mother.  This has led her to enroll her two chil­dren at NYFACS.  She is pas­sion­ate about high qual­ity edu­ca­tion in urban areas as shown through her high suc­cess rate for improv­ing stu­dent per­for­mance.  She mod­er­ates the Model UN at her school as well as a Women’s group for strug­gling young women. Claire trav­els often with her stu­dents and is a strong believer in expe­ri­en­tial learning. Her favorite aspect of NYFACS lies in the abil­ity of the chil­dren to be in a diverse global envi­ron­ment steeped in the tra­di­tions and lan­guages of the chil­dren in attendance.  A truly global experience…

Her areas of exper­tise con­sist of:

• · Dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion, Expe­ri­en­tial Learn­ing, Inquiry Based Learn­ing, TCRWP, ECLAS,
• · Test Prepa­ra­tion– Sat­ur­day and After School Pro­grams, Inclu­sion of Test Prep in Curriculum
• · French Lan­guage Acquisition
• · Stu­dents with Dis­abil­i­ties and the Eval­u­a­tion Refer­ral Process
• · Eng­lish Lan­guage Acquisition
• · NYC DOE sys­tems and ser­vices, ATS, HSST, SESIS, ARIS, Plato, IZone, ACUITY,
• · NYC and NYS Com­mon Core Stan­dards and benchmarks

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS, as for Sep­tem­ber 2011

• April Rabiu -  Par­ent rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the board is a multi-hyphenated film­maker and award win­ning entre­pre­neur, mother of two and owner of Atyp­i­cal Pic­tures and the devel­op­ing Atyp­i­cal Inter­ac­tive com­pa­nies. She began her aca­d­e­mic career at the Uni­ver­sity of Nebraska-Lincoln where she majored in Broad­cast Jour­nal­ism and Inter­na­tional Busi­ness, with foreign-language minors. In a change of direc­tion, she trans­fered to New York Uni­ver­sity where she com­pleted her BFA in film and tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tion, and worked for many of the top enter­tain­ment com­pa­nies in NYC on both the inde­pen­dent and stu­dio side of pro­duc­tion. She later pur­sued an MA in Cin­e­matog­ra­phy at the Gal­latin School of Indi­vid­u­al­ized study where she focused on the use of “color as lan­guage” in film. Through the span of her career she has pro­duced a vari­ety of projects from shorts and music videos to cor­po­rate pro­mos for For­tune 500 com­pa­nies where she crafted tar­geted mes­sages for diverse audi­ences. She is cur­rently a mem­ber of var­i­ous pro­fes­sional and social orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing NY Women in Film and Tele­vi­sion, the Inde­pen­dent Fea­ture Project and the Amer­i­can Mensa Society.

ADVISORY MEMBERS, Sep­tem­ber 2011

• Adri­ana Caballero, found­ing board member
• Erika Dil­day, found­ing board member
• Fabi­enne Doucet, found­ing board member
• Pierre de Ravel, found­ing board member

Board com­mit­tees descrip­tion and com­po­si­tion as for Novem­ber 2011:

Exec­u­tive com­mit­tee (Offi­cers + Prin­ci­pal + 2 appointed members)

Finance and Facil­i­ties committee

The Board is respon­si­ble for the fidu­ciary health of the school. The Finance Com­mit­tee of the Board of Trustees will ana­lyze the finan­cial sta­tus of the school to ensure proper imple­men­ta­tion of the school’s char­ter. The com­mit­tee must ascer­tain that spend­ing has been within the lim­its as set forth by the Board of Trustees. The finance com­mit­tee presents the finan­cial state­ment twice a year, one report to exam­ine pro­jected spend­ing for the fol­low­ing year and one report to review actual spending.

Mem­bers:

• Nom­i­na­tions to be held in March 2012

• Facilities/Finance com­mit­tee will meet on
• Octo­ber 7, 2011
• Jan­u­ary 6, 2012
• April 6, 2012
• July 6, 2012

Lead­er­ship Review committee

The Board Prin­ci­pal Review Com­mit­tee will review the principal’s progress in lead­ing the school. It will ana­lyze data con­cern­ing test scores, the han­dling of IEPs, food ser­vice, trans­porta­tion, library resources, etc. The com­mit­tee will also review the principal’s effec­tive­ness in cat­e­gories such as teacher qual­ity, stu­dent lan­guage acqui­si­tion, gen­eral atmos­phere, and dis­ci­pline. If there are prob­lems in the school as pre­sented by the com­mit­tee and the prin­ci­pal, the Board of Trustees will be able to take informed steps to improve school performance.

Mem­bers :

•  Nom­i­na­tions to be held in March 2012

Meet­ing cal­en­dar for Lead­er­ship Review Committee:

Griev­ance Review committee

The review com­mit­tee is a new stand­ing com­mit­tee acti­vated in Feb­ru­ary 2011. The com­mit­tee is in charge of review­ing griev­ance cases that remain unre­solved after action by the school lead­er­ship. The griev­ance review com­mit­tee is com­posed of 3 board mem­bers, 2 par­ent rep­re­sen­ta­tives and one staff member.

Mem­bers:

• teacher rep­re­sen­ta­tive to be elected
• par­ent rep­re­sen­ta­tive to be elected
• Sec­ond par­ent rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the class from which the griev­ance is issued 

Hir­ing com­mit­tee for prin­ci­pal search

The hir­ing com­mit­tee for prin­ci­pal search is a new com­mit­tee acti­vated in June 2011. The com­mit­tee is in charge of defin­ing the pro­file of the new school leader, con­duct search and help select­ing can­di­dates to the posi­tion of per­ma­nent principal.

Mem­bers of the Hir­ing com­mit­tee for prin­ci­pal search are:

• Georges Khal­dun
• 1 non-voting staff rep­re­sen­ta­tive to be elected: Awa Sakho
• 2 non-voting par­ents rep­re­sen­ta­tive:  Lucrece Fran­cois Dubrovsky and Aku Welcome

Board devel­op­ment committee:

The Devel­op­ment Com­mit­tee is respon­si­ble for lead­ing the school’s fundrais­ing efforts and should work to accom­plish the fol­low­ing goals:

–Approve the devel­op­ment work plan every year and assess results.

–Lead the effort in solic­it­ing major gifts for the school in rat­ing, cul­ti­va­tion, solic­i­ta­tion and stew­ard­ship efforts.

–Develop ways to ensure ALL board mem­bers are par­tic­i­pat­ing in fundrais­ing efforts, includ­ing in-kind donations.

–Pro­vide board mem­bers, at least once a year, with a com­plete list of local cor­po­rate and foun­da­tion offi­cers to deter­mine if they know any of the indi­vid­u­als listed. Board mem­bers will help in con­tact­ing those peo­ple on the list to ask for a donation.

–Con­tin­u­ally iden­tify new prospects for the school and deter­mine ways to engage these new prospects.

–Work closely with school lead­er­ship to sys­tem­ize the dona­tion process for indi­vid­ual, cor­po­rate and foun­da­tion donors. This task is crit­i­cal for the growth and devel­op­ment of the school.

Mem­bers of devel­op­ment committee:

• Fab­rice Rouah
• Nom­i­na­tions to be held in March 2012