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 TargetsCo-constructed Success CriteriaRigorous and Relevant InstructionEngagement & Tasks of High Cognitive DemandProductive Struggle/Conceptual UnderstandingData-driven InstructionAssessment & DifferentiationSocial Emotional Academic LearningStudent Agency & HIGH expectations |
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Leader in Me7 HabitsBook of the MonthVirtue of the MonthLeader of the MonthSEAL TeamSEALed with a KissDiversity, Inclusion & Equity for ALL207 School Pledge |