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.
Visioning for Positive Change in 2018
Here are some examples that I have already seen across the building.
Congratulations are in order!
"If you want to give light to others, you have to glow yourself."
Field Trip Opportunity
Fablevision firmly believes that a well-educated student is not complete without less "test-able" skills, including the 4 Cs (plus 1): creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking — and compassion. They also believe in providing hands-on, meaningful, authentic learning experiences to help ALL learners realize their true potential.
These foundation skills are the building blocks upon which a lifetime of learning can be built. While the details of educational goals and outcomes vary from state to state and country to country, we all share this fundamental vision for students' success.
FableVision’s mission is to help educators inspire their students to develop and strengthen these essential skills. We will continue on our "200-year mission" to develop, discover, and share creative learning tools that help educators and students move their lives — and the world — to a better place.
I am looking to bring a small group of staff to Fablevision Studios in Boston on February 15th. We will have a chance to tour the studio and speak with staff about the personalized learning opportunities we can bring to the students at Dexter Park. Please let me know if you are interested.
Fundraisers to benefit Make a Wish Foundation and Special Olympics
Our North Star
Positive Behavior Support Update
Our Dexter Park Promises
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 25
We Want to Hear from You
Get Staff Updates to Your Phone!
Upcoming Events
January 19th: Marks close
January 25th: Early release (11:30)
January 26th: Leadership Team; Report cards sent home
*NOTE- JANUARY ALL SCHOOL ASSEMBLY IS CANCELLED*
Quotes to Ponder (I have the full article if you'd like it)
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
Steven Pinker in “The Bright Side” in Time Magazine, January 15, 2018, http://ti.me/2ETwYM2
“The quest for racial awareness and antiracist teaching should propel us to push back on negative stereotypes, correct distortions, and remedy omissions in our behavior and curriculum that stem from racism. Most powerfully, it should inspire us to ensure that if some students of color doubt themselves, it is our job to make them believe they can grow their ability and teach them how to act effectively from that belief. In the process, we will have to work hard to convince ourselves, since we are all, without exception, tainted by traces of racism and belief in the bell curve of ability.” Jon Saphier
“It is vitally important to consider who is represented, who is underrepresented, who is misrepresented, and who is ignored in literature. Ashley Pennell and David Koppenhaver
“With a tsunami of non-vetted content courtesy of the Internet, students, teachers, and parents are suffering the effects of unmitigated intellectual malnourishment… Our entire value system around information and what is factual has been forever altered by a white-noise construct that values the provocative over the precise.” Evan Lifer in “Five Ed-Tech Elephants” in School Library Journal, January 2018 (Vol. 64, #1, p. 12-13), http://bit.ly/2muvOz9
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