Partnerships

When schools and community organizations work together to support learning, everyone benefits. Partnerships serve to strengthen, support, and even transform, resulting in improved program quality, more efficient use of resources, and better alignment of goals and curricula, support student outcomes. And benefit students and their families. Facilitate access to a range of learning opportunities and developmental supports, providing opportunities for students and teachers alike to experiment with new approaches to teaching and learning; 

Complement the academic curriculum with a wider range of services and activities, particularly enrichment and arts activities
Reinforce concepts taught in school without replicating the school day, often exposing classroom teachers to new pedagogies

Improve school culture and community image through exhibitions and performances that help “shine the light” on students whose talents may not be apparent in the classroom
Build capacity amongst all stakeholders

At P.S. 207 we offer many programs and services focused on the academic, social, and emotional needs of our students. We take great pride and care in the development and facilitation of our programs to ensure that they all are helping to build our young leaders.

Brain Power

Teaching Matters

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Our Gholdy Muhammad partnership builds teacher capacity in approaching teaching and learning utilizing the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework. Use of this framework provides all students with profound opportunities for personal, intellectual, and academic success and presents practical approaches to cultivate the genius in students and within teachers.

Our Kagan Cooperative Learning partnership builds teacher capacity to increase student engagement in classrooms through the use of Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures which promote the engagement and interaction of every student.

Our Studio in A School partnership brings visual arts education to our Kindergarten students taught by professional artists to our school by integrating the visual arts into teaching and learning, and providing professional development for artists and teachers.

Our Arch for Kids and Bash the Trash partnerships support our STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) curriculum and projects by co-hosting our music and design themed STREAM Fair in May, including instrument making and a Superhero Design Challenge in May in support of our project based learning approach.

Our Music and the Brain partnership brings a neuroscience-based music literacy curriculum and uses keyboard instruction designed to build the cognitive, attention, and fine motor skills of our students facilitated by our Music teacher.

Our Child’s Play partnership brings theatre arts experiences where our teachers and students work artists with coaches and artists who model the use of voice and movement to guide our students to strong clear choices and help them to intellectually and emotionally connect to literature.

Our Teaching Matters Jumpstart to Reading partnership provides coaching for teachers of literacy K-2nd to support improvements in pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, data analysis, and professional collaboration based on the unique context and needs of our school. Our Teaching Matters program is designed to move struggling readers in K and 1st grades from pre-readers to readers.

Our Responsive Classroom partnership builds teacher capacity to maintain safe, joyful, and engaging classrooms. This partnership supports the development of the Morning Meeting component of our day, and our Power of Our Words and Yardsticks book studies.

Our Writing is Thinking (WITsi) partnership is designed to build teacher team capacity as engines of continuous improvement by shifting the hearts and minds of team members and develop their capacity to lead direct instruction in explicit expository writing strategies to accelerate student learning and school improvement in writing, oral language, content, vocabulary and thinking.'

Our Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) partnership builds the capacity of our teachers to create supportive learning environments by improving their ability to hear, value, and assess students through thought and expression by facilitating real discussions and reflection.

Our Brain Power partnership supports the creation of a harmonious, just, joyful and sustainable future for humanity and earth through community building, self-development, mindfulness, holistic wellness and brain training for teachers, students, parents, and administrators.

Our Young People’s Chorus (YPC) partnership brings a choral music program where our students learn not just to sing, but to strive for musical excellence by bringing our students together to create exciting music, bridge cultural differences and foster an environment of empathy and understanding. '

Great Leaps programs are well recognized throughout the world as highly effective educational tools to help students overcome challenges and experience the joy of learning. Our Great Leaps consultants support student intervention with a research and evidence based approach which results in significant student reading progress.

Community-based organizations (CBOs) offer our students many opportunities to develop, learn, and grow. These programs include learning opportunities focusing on:

academics
social and emotional development
recreational opportunities
vocational skills
civics

In the summer of 2018, we partnered with Kingsbridge Heights Community Center. KHCC runs our after-school program and offers many programs to students and families in our community! Visit https://www.khcc-nyc.org/ for info about KHCC including programs offered, how to get involved and events throughout the year.

Partnerships

At P.S. 207 we offer many programs and services focused on the academic, social, and emotional needs of our students. We take great pride and care in the development and facilitation of our programs to ensure that they all are helping to build our young leaders.

Digital Age Learning

Manhattan College

Turnaround for Children

Kingsbridge Heights Community Center

MyLibraryNYC

Bronx Adult Learning Center

Marble Hill Senior Center