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 Dexter Park
Positive Behavior Support Update
2017-2018 Student Ambassadors
Sign Up for October's Read Aloud: "We're All Wonders"
Positive Phone Calls Home
Current phone call count= 3
This Year's Keynote
Coming Up Next Week
Staff Book Study
Get Staff Updates to Your Phone!
Upcoming Events
October 17th: Early release (PD @ Dexter Park)
October 18th: Chip Wood visit (agenda above)
October 26th: Firefighter Phil Program @ 9:15 a.m./Goals and Plans to Chris!
October 27th: No School (PD @ Mahar)
October 31st: Vocabulary Parade @ 9:00 a.m.
November 2nd/3rd: Parent Teacher Conferences
Quotes of the Week (If you want the full article, let me know!)
“Just as you can’t learn to swim if you never get in the water,” says Beghetto, “students won’t learn how to respond productively to the unknown if we never give them opportunities to do so.” Ronald Beghetto
“Our students’ twenty-first-century jobs will revolve around innovation, reasoning, sense making, and interpersonal skills. The algorithmic work taught in some classrooms perpetuates the idea that math is boring, nonsensical, useless, and unattainable. Worse still, students leave those classrooms unprepared for the work that follows.”
Robyn Silbey in “Stamp Out Math Phobia” in Teaching Children Mathematics, October 2017
“Although the merits of professional development from outside the walls of our schools are indisputable, my time as a coach taught me that some of the best learning opportunities are as close as the classroom next door. When we set aside time to observe teachers engaging with the same student population, the same reading and writing curriculum, and the same resources, there is much to learn from their unique talents and teaching strategies. All it takes to make this learning happen in our schools are strong relationships, a clear focus, and collaboration.” Sarah Valter in “The PD Next Door” in Literacy Today, September/October 2017 (Vol. 35, #2, p. 18-19), http://bit.ly/2wIzaS2
“We may also never find that common ground with people whose politics or faith conflicts with ours. But we owe it to one another to disagree agreeably, without anger or intimidation, whether on a front porch or a Facebook page. A little more grace among us all would go a long way toward healing the nation.” Erick-Woods Erickson in “Finding Grace Around the Kitchen Table” in The New York Times, October 1, 2017, http://nyti.ms/2wpDF45
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