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
Last Call!
Positive Behavior Support Update
2017-2018 Student Ambassadors
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 3
The TLC is Hosting a Garden Cleanup Day!
Staff Book Study
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Upcoming Events
October 2nd: All school assemblies (grades 3 and 5 @ 1:30/ grades 4 and 6 @ 2:00)
October 4th: PBS Team @ 3:15 p.m.
October 6th: Leadership Team @ 8:10 a.m.
October 9th: Columbus Day (No School)
October 17th: Early release (PD @ Dexter Park)
October 18th: Chip Wood visit/meets with PBS Team @ 3:15 p.m.
October 27th: No School (PD @ Mahar)
Quotes of the Week (If you want the full article, let me know!)
“The feedback you don’t like is likely the most useful.” Dan Rockwell
“Research and practice focused on improving students’ vocabulary indicates that to sufficiently boost students’ word knowledge, instruction must not only improve students’ knowledge of words taught in the curriculum but also increase students’ strategies and enthusiasm for learning new words in naturally occurring contexts.” Sabina Rak Neugebauer, Pela Gámez, Michael Coyne, Ingrid Cólon, Betsy McCoach, and Sharon Ware
“[N]othing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice.” Jennifer Gonzalez
“For students, who seem to have less and less patience for long reading assignments, perhaps now is the time to bring back poetry memorization.” Molly Worthen
“[A] ten-day increase in teacher absenteeism is associated with the loss of about six to ten days of learning in English language arts and about fifteen to twenty-five days of learning in math. In other words, kids learn almost nothing – and possibly less than nothing – when their teacher of record isn’t there.” David Griffith in “Public Schools’ Billion-Hour Teacher Absenteeism Problem” in The Education Gadfly, September 20, 2017 (Vol. 17, #38), http://bit.ly/2fsHP7M
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