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In the Press

Recent news articles and videos on MS 223.

 

  1. http://www.motthavenherald.com/2020/05/04/putting-remote-learning-in-reach-arete-helps-connects-students-to-classrooms/
  2. https://www.bxtimes.com/mentor-program-helps-bronx-students-during-covid-19-pandemic/
  3. https://www.bu.edu/wheelock/a-conversation-with-dr-ramon-gonzalez/
  4. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/longer-school-days-can-fun-students
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZVRLah_fiw
  6. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/these-bronx-students-share-what-it-means-to-be-a-g/
  7. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/561a6eede4b0448989c88951/t/59c965bc2994cacd93d8d5ae/1506371004742/High+School+Master+List.pdf
  8. http://www.sipagovtech.org/speakers/gonzalez.html

 

Past articles and videos

Summer Bridge Arts Institute

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mdYoyYZVig
  2. http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120720/mott-haven/summer-schooling-seen-as-key-closing-students-achievement-gap

White House Champion of Change

  1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions/arts-education/ramon-gonzalez

Literacy

  1. http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120119/south-bronx/checkout-groceries-books-at-mott-haven-ctown
  2. http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130409/mott-haven/900k-mott-haven-school-library-boasts-e-readers-computers-even-books

Finance

  1. http://motthavenherald.com/2012/05/17/entrepreneurs-start-young-at-m-s-223/
  2. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704103904575337012196965360.html
  3. http://www.schoolbook.org/2012/05/11/at-a-bronx-middle-school-a-day-of-selling-and-learning/
  4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndb-aPUseVw
  5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIqHHteErC4

Innovation

  1. http://www.examiner.com/article/the-sixth-grade-score-drop-how-one-principal-addressed-the-middle-school-transition-problem

Professional Development

  1. http://gothamschools.org/tag/ms-223/
  2. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/chancellor-dennis-walcott-school-visit-m-s-223-bronx-lays-vision-new-year-article-1.1152555
  3. http://www.schoolbook.org/2012/10/22/principal-support-networks-more-responsive-than-ever

Arts

  1. http://www.artsjournal.com/dewey21c/2009/06/can_the_arts_be_a_central_part.html
  2. http://gothamschools.org/2011/08/09/bronx-principal-marshals-colleagues-around-arts-enrichment/
  3. http://www.giarts.org/sites/default/files/conference_websites/2009/sessions/mon03.html
  4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-kessler/you-dont-have-to-take-awa_b_756999.html

Mathematics

  1. http://www.uft.org/feature-stories/greats-math

Budgeting

  1. http://gothamschools.org/2010/07/21/keeping-a-school-budget-lifted-amid-a-funding-roller-coaster/
  2. http://gothamschools.org/tag/hiring-freeze/
  3. http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-04-06/news/rich-school-poor-school/

Union Negotiating

  1. http://www.uft.org/galleries/photo/mulgrew-visits-ms-223-bronx

Arts

Expand to High School

  1. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/principal-ramon-gonzalez-dream-true-expanded-bronx-middle-school-article-1.970846

Charters

  1. http://gothamschools.org/2011/05/11/given-a-glimpse-of-where-it-might-have-opened-a-charter-winces/

Awards

  1. http://motthavenherald.com/2010/09/21/local-school-receives-top-honor/
  2. http://schools.nyc.gov/Home/InOurSchoolsToday/2010-2011/intelwin092310.htm
  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrsgG-q3Vc
  4. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gonzalez.html
  5. http://www.pdkintl.org/awards/emerging12-13.htm
  6. http://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2011/#thingue

Speeches

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0jg9OIuVao
  2. http://www.popscreen.com/v/7e2hy/Ramon-Gonzalez-The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete-An-Urban-Education-Success-Story
  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1QViIt_OKY
  4. http://www.newschool.edu/milano/nycaffairs/SchoolsAccountability_MeasuringProgress.aspx
  5. http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleID=7505
  6. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/26/closing-achievement-gap-arts-programming
  7. http://www.judithdebruijn.nl/en/the-hague-communinty-school-conference-ft-ramon-gonzalez/