Mission & Vision

207 VISION

At P.S./M.S. 207, we ensure that all students are engaged in rigorous, high quality instruction in an engaging, challenging, inspiring and supportive learning environment. Students take ownership of their learning and staff promotes the success of every student by establishing a nurturing school culture with high expectations that is conducive to student agency. Ongoing professional learning leads to professional growth and adult learning to strengthen the integration of culturally responsive and social emotional academic learning in every classroom. In partnership with the community, all students become compassionate and resilient life-long learners who lead the way to success. 

207 MISSION

Through equitable and rigorous instruction and high expectations in a welcoming and affirming environment, all students at P.S./M.S. 207 are empowered to develop their full potential to become agentic, passionate lifelong learners and leaders. 

INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS

In alignment with the Chancellor’s Four Pillars for Building Trust, the Instructional Leadership Framework and the District 27 Foci and Priorities,

 IF…

We continue to unpack the NGLS and the CRSE Framework, and conduct a thoughtful analysis of data to drive instruction and raise the level of academic rigor,

THEN…

Students will be engaged in rigorous, relevant, high-quality instruction that strengthens the instructional core and promotes student agency.

FOCUS/PRIORITY STATEMENT

Build capacity and refine schoolwide teacher team structures and instructional practices through ongoing, targeted professional learning, distributive leadership and continuous cycles of feedback  to ensure rigorous and relevant, high-quality instruction that fosters student agency and increases academic achievement.

INSTRUCTIONAL ABSOLUTES

Learning Targets 

 Co-constructed Success Criteria

Rigorous and Relevant Instruction

Engagement & Tasks of High Cognitive Demand

Productive Struggle/Conceptual Understanding

Data-driven Instruction 

Assessment & Differentiation

Social Emotional Academic Learning

Student Agency & HIGH expectations

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING

Leader in Me

7 Habits

Book of the Month

Virtue of the Month

Leader of the Month

SEAL Team

SEALed with a Kiss

Diversity, Inclusion & Equity for ALL

207 School Pledge