Welcome from Principal Goelz!

 

We had a VERY successful and memorable 2024-25 school year!  In June, we graduated our first senior class to attend Dottke as a project-based learning high school for their entire four years of high school!  We congratulate the Class of 2025 and are excited to see them "spread their wings" in their future endeavors. 

 

For our returning students....what a year we had, right?  We took in a new freshmen class that was a GREAT addition to our school community, continued to create our unique learning environment together, celebrated individual victories, went out of our comfort zones, learned from failures, experienced successful iterations, never gave up, achieved more than we thought we ever could and had FUN.  I'm looking forward to seeing what we can all learn, accomplish, build and create next year!

 

For our new students....words can not express how excited I am for you to join our school family and experience the innovative, creative and unique learning opportunities that we offer at Dottke.  You will learn quickly that at Dottke, you are not just the receiver of these learning opportunities, but you are empowered (and even expected) to be a part of creating these for yourselves and others.  This is one of the beauties of our school.  YOU have a say.  YOU make our school what it is.

 

At Dottke, we learn by doing.  We learn by taking risks.  We learn by failing.  We learn alongside one another.  We learn in ways that will benefit us in our adult lives.  And most of all, we learn that achieving our individual full potential is hard work, but attainable.