As you know, we are undergoing a restructure of many functions and teams across DPS. While it was important to make reductions to honor our commitment to our teachers, it was equally important that we honor the work we have started -- creating teams that allow us to put our efforts where it matters most: creating classrooms that are vibrant centers of learning, where caring teachers are engaging their students in rigorous, culturally responsive experiences so that all children excel.
It is never easy to undergo the kind of large-scale change that we are undertaking, and I want to thank all of our central team members who have been impacted by our reductions. In particular, I want to thank our Instructional Superintendent team and their academic partners, some of whom have spent many years with us and others who are new to Team DPS. In all cases, their commitment to Students First is and continues to be steadfast and I thank them for their service to our schools, leaders, teachers and students.
As we considered the best ways to organize with a leaner team, we determined that a major piece of our redesign to serve school communities would be to group our schools in six specific regions: Near Northeast, Far Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest and Central. Read more in this
March 1 edition of Leader Weekly.
I want to share more information about these regions, as well as the leaders who have been selected to oversee them.
