Our school leaders create a school environment that promotes ethical values, student equity, empowerment, innovation, safety, school agility and school and faculty/staff learning. How?

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Dirksen Primary School provides opportunities for faculty, staff, and parents to assume shared leadership positions and responsibilities. Our School Instructional Leadership Team (SILT) meets monthly as an empowered, site-based decision-making team to review issues, concerns, or items that have been brought to its attention. SILT agendas (Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec - Jan), meeting roles, and summaries are available for review.

Our school’s faculty and staff participate in five school improvement planning days as scheduled on the district calendar. These days allow us to further develop the learning climate of our school through planning activities that enhance our school goal of student achievement especially in the areas of reading and writing. (SIP Day Agendas: Sept - Oct - Jan)

To maintain an environment that supports developmentally appropriate practices, we implement a wide range of programs provided by District 108. These programs support children of diverse abilities, needs, and strengths. Such programs include: Literacy Services/Reading Recovery, Special Education, Connections, Learning Center Technology, First Choice After School Activities, and Latch Key. At Dirksen School, Learning Center activities are further supported with technology support provided for home. Our learning communities can access a process for assessing children strengths and weaknesses and for developing a plan of assistance.