Ron Link Email & Phone Number

Bronx, NY

We work hard to create a school informed by a real love of learning and our students. It's all about being professional and passionate about the privilege we've been granted of educating our students to their highest educational, artistic, personal, economic, and world citizen potential.An essential aspect of my job is to expedite my staff's best.

• Crafted and implemented policies that resulted in significant gains in qualitative and quantitative dimensions (e.g. one category up in our Quality Review, Environmental Survey went from all red to all green.
• Instituted strategy of school improvement planning cycle: review student achievement data; design/redesign curriculum; implement, train, support; evaluate student achievement; refined implementation with continued.
• Collaboratively analyzed data with Principal, cabinet, School Leadership Team, through faculty conference, and extensive professional development meetings resulting in school-wide initiatives around a new.
• Established school-wide use of the online Atlas-Rubicon curriculum mapping platform and provided teachers with extensive training and support
• Led contiguous data gathering and analysis effort from multiple sources (Skedula, Student Work, Regents, Acuity, Performance Series, ARIS, Quality Review, Progress Report, Teacher Teams, Inquiry Team, IEPs, and other.
• Helped develop new Mission/Vision Inspiring student voice in academics, community and self-advocacy that has real meaning evidenced by the sea change in school tone and climate

• Established proper Dean’s office infrastructure and protocols through computer and walkie-talkie procurement, assigned roles & responsibilities, and instituted DOE compliant OORS, SOHO, OSI, and suspension procedures
• Formed school-wide Discipline/Positive Reinforcement Task Force comprised of representatives from School Administration, Dean’s Office, Children’s Aid Society Management, Guidance Department and UFT
• Led mediation and post-suspension conferences with students, parents, and staff
• Presented school safety goals, data and fielded questions at emergency Parent Community Safety Meeting
• Instituted inaugural weekly meetings of Dean’s Office, Children’s Aid Society, and Guidance Department
• Helped bring school fire drill evacuation time to below DOE guidelines, planned tabletop exercises, and live drills

• Taught 9th through12th grade students how to be better readers, writers, visual interpreters & communicators.
• Mentored and provided instructional guidance and support to first-year teachers.
• Assisted 12th graders with the college application process.
• Built and supervised after-school music studio.
• Established Jonathan Levin High School as a beta member of the socially conscious community of www.rethos.org.
• Installed professional grade weather station and live school weather cam.

• Forged a network of 80+ medical doctors and optometrists to provide patient solutions
• Supervised staff and over 40 project volunteers
• Authored Patient Outreach Initiatives and developed a strategic plan resulting in over $300K in funding
• Media recognition by 140+ global outlets such as the New York Times, Business Week, and the Wall Street Journal
• Created budgets, financial statements and Trustee Board reports and invited successful outside audit
• Executed annual capital campaign, other fundraising, administered donor database, recognition and acknowledgement

• Led post-incident evaluation processes designed to improve fire, police and EMS response. Recommended related changes to city disaster plans.
• Served as Chair of Training for West Shore Regional HazMat Team.
• Planned, developed and managed training exercises including mock incidents, identification of hazardous materials, victim rescue, containment, CPR/First Aid, and police, fire and EMS response procedures.
• Taught classes in hazardous materials response to several hundred police, fire and EMS personnel throughout the greater Cleveland area.
• Conducted fire safety presentations at various Cleveland and Lakewood, OH public elementary schools.

M.Ed., Education Leadership

M.S.Ed., English Education

Ba, English