We Are Dexter Park
Every Child. Every Day.
Dexter Park Core Values
We believe that all students should feel:
- safe
- welcome
- respected
- successful
Dexter Park Gives
Getting Active
Food-a-thon
In Memory of Kevin Major
GOTR
DARE
"I am an educator, first"
"It Mattered that I Came."
Upcoming Dates
May 30th: Memorial Day (no school)
May 31st-June 3rd: 5th Grade Colonial Days
May 31st: DARE Graduation @ 6:30 p.m.
June 1st: School Committee
June 3rd: Grade 5 to Old Sturbridge Village
June 6th: Grade 4 to Moose Hill/Field Day for grades 5 and 6/ELDT @ 3:15
June 7th: Grade 3 to Plimouth Plantation/6th graders to Mahar for orientation
June 9th: Grade 6 to High Meadow
June 10th: Field Day for grades 3 and 4/Graduation rehearsal @ 1:00 p.m.
June 13th: All school assembly (grades 3 and 4 @ 9:00/grades 5 and 6 @ 9:30)/Graduation rehearsal @ 1:00/Band and chorus concert @ 6:00 p.m.
June 14th: 6th grade Graduation @ 1:00 p.m./staff meeting @ 3:15 p.m.
June 15th: Last day of school (11:30 release)
Quotes of the Week
“It’s not like just providing a laptop to every student will automatically increase student achievement.” Binbin Zheng
“For all our talk about noncognitive skills, nobody has yet found a reliable way to teach kids to be grittier or more resilient. And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really ‘teaching’ these capacities the way one might teach math or reading – indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.” Paul Tough
“If you are a teacher, you may never be able to get your students to be gritty, in the sense of developing some essential character trait called grit. But you can probably make them act gritty – to behave in gritty ways in your classroom. And those behaviors will help produce the academic outcomes that you (and our students and society at large) are hoping for.” Paul Tough
“Almost any experience is improved by paying full attention to it.” Kelly McGonigal
“Decisions may be the product of culture. But culture is the product of decisions.” Jerry Useem
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/dexterparkschool
Twitter: @PrincipalDodge1