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.
This Week at DP
Evaluation Information
Last Day to Register for RBT Data Teams Course!
Staff Genius Hour Projects: Check out all the learning!
"If you want to give light to others, you have to glow yourself."
Thanks for the Feedback
Our North Star
Positive Behavior Support Update
Our Dexter Park Promises
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 33
We Want to Hear from You
Upcoming Events
May 25th: Memorial Day Assembly @ 10:30 a.m.
May 28th: No school
May 29th: Placement (see DP Calendar); DARE Graduation @ 1:30 p.m.
May 30th: Field Day (grades 5 and 6); Senior Walk @ 10:30 (Chris will email details)
May 31st: Innovation School Building Support Team @ 3:15 p.m.
June 1st: Field Day (grades 3 and 4); Leadership Team @ 8:10 a.m.
June 5th: Grade 6 to Mahar; Grade 3 Field Trip
June 6th: Grade 6 to High Meadows; PBS Team @ 3:15 p.m.
June 12th: Graduation @ 1:00 p.m.
June 13th: Last day (11:30 release)
This Week in Ed News
“For millions of kids, high school – at least the academic part – is too damn boring and pointless. Why are they being told to study calculus? Why is history so dull? What does chemistry or third-year French have to do with their lives?”
Chester Finn, Jr.
“Educators have a particularly tricky relationship with meetings. Teachers, school leaders, and district officials are famously short on time, but they’re also often desperate for collaboration and connection, knowing that those partnerships are key to professional growth and wellbeing, as well as to streamlining the services that help students learn and grow.” Leah Shafer
“Sexual harassment is not merely something that young people will need to contend with sometime in their distant future when they are adults in the workforce. Rather, it is something many of them, especially girls, are experiencing right now and right in their schools. Like it or not, schools are formally and informally communicating lessons to their students about expectations for men’s and women’s sexual conduct.”
Lorena Garcia in “It’s 2018. It’s Time to Update Sex Ed.” in Education Week, May 8, 2018, https://bit.ly/2KVMDh2; Garcia can be reached at lorena@uic.edu.
“The feedback that struggling students get from writing teachers, while well meaning, is often overwhelming, tries to cover too much at once, and deflates egos.”
Selina Ivy and Jim LeBuffe in “Guided Self-Correction: A Positive, Focused Feedback
System That Improves Writing” in ASCD Express, April 26, 2018 (Vol. 13, #16), http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol13/1316-ivy.aspx
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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