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 among 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 Beliefs
We believe that all students who attend The Dexter Park Innovation School:
Can learn
Have a right to feel:
Safe
Welcome
Respected
Successful
Adult Community Guidelines
We will strive to recognize and respect the perspectives and ideas of all staff, while assuming we all have positive intent for our students.
We will work together to create an adult learning community in which all members feel valued and respected.
We will communicate our ideas, concerns, or needs for support openly, honestly, and respectfully.
We will help each other identify root causes of problems and consequences without judgement to problem solve as a team.
We will work together to create and protect time in our schedules to share, discuss, and collaborate with fellow educators.
Practicing Gratitude @ Work
Keep an eye out for for his book "Be the One" being released this Spring. You can learn more about him at https://www.ryansheehy.us/
This Week at Dexter Park
Welcome, Adam!
Choosing Kindness and Gratitude
Our North Star
Positive Behavior Support Update
Our Dexter Park Promises
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 18
We Want to Hear from You
Staff Book Study
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Upcoming Events
December 6th: Early Release- PD w Curt Bates @ 12:30; PBS Team @ 3:15
December 12th: Staff Meeting @ 3:15
December 18th: All School Assemblies (*Note the Date Change)
December 22nd: Early Release
December 25th-January 1st: Holiday Break
Quotes to Ponder (I have the full article if you'd like it)
“Online is a place for human contact but not intimacy. Online is a place for information but not reflection… Online is a place for exploration but discourages cohesion. It grabs control of your attention and scatters it across a vast range of diverting things.” David Brooks
“Questions about race, equity, and schooling reach people at a level that is deeply personal, emotional, and moral, and they need to be able to work through what they have uncovered.” Gislaine Ngounou and Nancy Gutierrez
“Helping students to embrace their identity, build transferable skills (such as critical thinking and problem solving), and fall in love with learning should be our central aims in education.” Richard Milner IV
“When I think about how I understand my role as citizen – setting aside being president – and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of ‘citizen,’ the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels.”
Barack Obama, quoted in “Looking at Citizenship Through a Literary Lens” by Laura
Tavares in Educational Leadership, November 2017 (Vol. 75, #3, p. 74-78), available
for purchase at http://bit.ly/2ibIvQy; Tavares is at laura_tavares@facinghistory.org.
“Simply put, words have power. And a powerful vision statement is one that gives everyone in the organization a vivid sense of purpose in the work they do.” Ben Owens
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