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Just hours after being granted a waiver by State Education Commissioner David Stenier, Dennis Walcott was front and center at a town hall meeting in Brooklyn.

He scrapped the traditional PowerPoint presentation and answered questions from parents at the meeting.

Walcott says he wants to be a hands-on uniter.

"I'm your chancellor, plain and simple," Walcott said. "I am at your call. You pay my salary. And, I have a responsibility to entertain any question that you may raise, and take the heat, respond to it. And, try to plan better and to address it moving forward."

As part of a multi-borough tou, Walcott was in Bryant Park to take part in a poetry reading to mark student "Poetry in Your Pocket Day."

Before that he was in Queens visiting his alma mater, Francis Lewis High School.