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
Next week's newsletter will feature ways to have your students visualize and share their word so it serves as a reminder all year long.
"If you want to give light to others, you have to glow yourself."
Our North Star
Positive Behavior Support Update
Our Dexter Park Promises
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 22
We Want to Hear from You
Staff Book Study
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Upcoming Events
January 9th: Chip Wood Consult; Staff Meeting @ 3:15 p.m.
January 12th: Leadership Team
January 15th: MLK Jr. Day (No School)
January 18th: Curt Bates (coaching and consulting)
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)
"Our heavy-handed use of tests for accountability has undermined precisely the function that testing is best designed to serve: providing trustworthy information about student achievement.” Daniel Koretz in “Moving Beyond the Failure of Test-Based Accountability” in
American Educator, Winter 2017-18 (Vol. 41, #4, p. 22-26), http://bit.ly/2lCTDUi
“Make it so hard to plagiarize that they might just as well write the paper.” Michelle Navarre Cleary
“In a time of hyper-partisanship, the most important thing to teach our students is not argument. We need to teach them about pluralism, about living with and for the perpetual discomfort of difference. We need to teach them how to listen.” Daniel Sussman
“Women have been taught, by every cultural force imaginable, that we must be ‘nice’ and ‘quiet’ and ‘polite.’ That we must protect others’ feelings before our own. That we are there for others’ pleasure.” Rachel Simmons, quoted in “When ‘Yes’ Is Easier Than ‘No’” by Jessica Bennett in The New York Times, December 17, 2017, http://nyti.ms/2kDLWfS
“I’ll tell you what leadership is. It’s persuasion, and conciliation, and education, and patience. It’s long, slow, tough work. That’s the only kind of leadership I know, or believe in, or will practice.” President Dwight Eisenhower, quoted in “The Limits of the Reality TV Presidency” by Jon Meacham in The New York Times, December 30, 2017, http://nyti.ms/2CsDmJE
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