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
It's Garden Cleanup Day!
Positive Behavior Support Update
2017-2018 Student Ambassadors
Sign Up for October's Read Aloud: "We're All Wonders"
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 3
This Year's Keynote
Staff Book Study
Get Staff Updates to Your Phone!
Upcoming Events
October 6th: Leadership Team @ 8:10 a.m.
October 9th: Columbus Day (No School)
October 9th: Staff meeting @ 3:15 p.m.
October 10th: PTO Meeting @ 6:00 p.m. (Fisher Hill)
October 12th: Student Ambassadors @ 1:30 p.m.
October 17th: Early release (PD @ Dexter Park)
October 18th: Chip Wood visit/meets with PBS Team @ 3:15 p.m.
October 26th: Firefighter Phil Program @ 9:15 a.m.
October 27th: No School (PD @ Mahar)
October 31st: Vocabulary Parade @ 9:00 a.m.
Quotes of the Week (If you want the full article, let me know!)
“No one who has committed their lives to education reform signed up to measure ourselves against a despicably low standard that represents nothing more than the failed system that we are trying to improve. Let’s start by ensuring the metrics against which we measure ourselves and our students’ outcomes truly place them on a path to college completion.” Ian Rowe
“I can’t stand to read things that are totally boy-centered. I mean, it can be a lot about boys, but that can’t, like, totally be what it’s about.” A middle school girl on some young adult novels
“It does not necessarily lie within a teacher’s power to expose each individual’s implicit biases, nor would we want that power, but it is within our power and responsibility to offer every student an opportunity to recognize implicit bias, both in his or her own reading life and in the literature we bring to school, and thus to make the implicit explicit.” Barry Gilmore (ibid.)
“The honors kids – the Hillary Clintons and Mitt Romneys of the school – sat at the top of the meritocratic heap, getting attention and encouragement. The kids with the greatest needs had special-education support. But, across America, the large mass of kids in the middle – the ones without money, book smarts, or athletic prowess – were outsiders in their own schools. Few others cared about what they felt or believed or experienced. They were the unspecial and unpromising, looked down upon by and almost completely separated from the college-bound crowd. Life was already understood to be a game of winners and losers; they were the designated losers, and they resented it. The most consistent message these students had received was that their lives were of less value than others’. Is it so surprising that some of them find satisfaction in a politics that says, essentially, Screw ’em all?” Atul Gawande in “Is Health Care a Right?” in The New Yorker, October 2, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/02/is-health-care-a-right
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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