The #DexterParkPride
Every Child. Every Day.
The Dexter Park Innovation School
Vision
At the Dexter Park Innovation School we celebrate each other’s differences and strive to meet the needs of all students through collaboration amongst staff, family, and community. By providing an inclusive, welcoming environment and sustainable instruction carried out with fidelity, we will nurture the whole child and meet individual needs. We believe all students can find success.
Mission Statement
The Dexter Park Innovation School will strive to provide an inclusive environment with instructional practices designed to meet individual needs. All students will be provided with differentiated educational opportunities to increase achievement. Our mission is for all students to gain skills, both academic and social, in order to be successful in the future.
Core Values
We believe that all students can learn and that each day students have the right to feel safe, welcome, respected, and successful.
This Week at Dexter Park
Staff Book Study
Dot Day is September 15th!
Orders due September 22nd!
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Never Forget
Upcoming Events
September 8: Leadership Team Meeting @ 8:10 a.m.
September 12: Staff meeting @ 3:15 p.m.
September 14: Open House (Chris welcomes at 5:45; classrooms open at 6:00)
September 15: Dot Day (see above)
September 18: Early release (11:30)- PD @ Mahar
September 20: PBS Team meeting @ 3:15 p.m.
September 25th: Picture Day
Quotes of the Week (If you want the full article, let me know!)
“If we really want results in schools – if we really want kids to succeed – then the teachers have to be nourished, teachers have to be honored, and the art of teaching as well as the science has to be something the principal respects and invests in.” Mark Shellinger, SAM Innovation Project, quoted in “The District Where Principals Run Their Schools – and Teach” by Denisa Superville in Education Week, August 30, 2017 (Vol. 37, #2, p. 7), www.edweek.org
“Overwork sucks us into a negative spiral, causing our brains to slow down and compromising our emotional intelligence.” Annie McKee in “Happiness Traps: How We Sabotage Ourselves at Work” in Harvard Business Review, September-October 2017 (Vol. 95, #5, p. 66-73), no e-link available
“Rigor is the result of work that challenges students’ thinking in new and interesting ways. It occurs when they are encouraged toward a sophisticated understanding of fundamental ideas and are driven by curiosity to discover what they don’t know.” Brian Sztabnik
“If we want to use technology to help people learn, we have to provide information in the way the human mind evolved to receive it… For millenniums, the environs in which we learned best were social ones. It was through other people’s testimony or through interactive discourse and exploration with them that we learned facts about our world and new ways of solving problems… We have to speak the mind’s language, and that includes the language not only of information but also social cues. Failing to do so will continue to artificially limit the gains that educational technology promises to offer.” David DeSteno, Cynthia Breazeal, and Paul Harris in “The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher” in The New York Times, August 27, 2017, http://nyti.ms/2xEWjoz
“The worst time to deal with issues is when you waited until you can’t wait anymore.”
Dan Rockwell
Need Some Information?
About Us
Email: christopherdodge@orange-elem.org
Website: http://dexterparkprincipal.blogspot.com/
Location: 3 Dexter Street, Orange, MA, United States
Phone: 978-544-6080
Facebook: facebook.com/dexterparkinnovationschool
Twitter: @PrincipalDodge1