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What’s rocks got to do with it? It’s actually about kindness, a value P.S. 207 is pushing hard to promote and impart on its students after spending years on a list of unsafe schools. The rock garden outside the Godwin Terrace school allows students to pick and paint kind messages for their peers

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October 20, 2022

Run-D.M.C. Legend, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Visits P.S. 207 Students - Norwood NewsGrammy award-winning rapper and Hip-Hop pioneer, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, visited P.S. 207 in Kingsbridge on Friday, Oct. 14, to speak with elementary school students about how to deal with bullies, believing in themselves, and to discuss his new picture book, “Darryl’s Dream.”

November 14, 2021

Kids taught yoga, mindfulness, meditation as part of new P.S. 207 - The Riverdale PressIt’s like nap time, but in a more awakened sense of the word. At P.S. 207 in Kingsbridge, students as young as kindergarteners now have a period blocked out on their schedules for dimmed lights, downward-facing dogs and drawing on “kindness rocks.”

November 10, 2021

P.S. 207 seeing positive results in students after adding yoga to fall curriculumAn elementary school in new York City added a relaxation and mediation technique to its fall curriculum - yoga!

March 25, 2020

Teachers support each other, studentsIt took days of back-and-forth. But on Sunday, March 15, the announcement was made: Public schools in New York City were closing until at least the end of April. And hopefully, by then, the pandemic involving the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could be a part of classrooms’ history lessons.

November 3, 2017

School’s expansion makes the grade: Parents embrace plan to add classes to Kingsbridge elementary schoolCome next spring, there might not be any students graduating from P.S. 207 in Kingsbridge — and parents are happy about it.

June 23, 2017

City says PS 207 is now ready for anything: School's turnaroundJust a year ago, the city’s education department called P.S. 207 “persistently dangerous” thanks to widespread bullying and an administration that refused to communicate, let alone do anything about it.

P.S. 207 wins emergency preparedness award – Bronx TimesA local school has become the second in the borough to win a prestigious award for emergency preparedness.

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