West Dennis – Kevin Debine He has a history with Friday, 13th.
In June 1986, he was appointed on Friday, 13, as a second -grade teacher at Ezra Baker Elementary School in West Dennis.
Now, after 39 years, on June 13, on Friday, he will be recruited in the retirement party as director.
Deepin, 61, does not see these dates fateful, but represents the happiest years of his life in the same school, now known as the name Ezra School H. Baker innovation.
Deepin does not have to retire, but he said in an interview at school on May 28, “I wanted to leave while I still love it.”
He said: “I am so blessed that I went through a profession that I loved.” “I had a job that I was supposed to own.”
It was clear that DePin was also loved by his students, as witnessed by his interaction with kindergarten students who walked through them and gave him from highly spontaneous hugs and hugs. The word “love” comes often when speaking with Depine.
The education class in the college gave the direction of DePin
When Deepin was attending the Stonegil College as a pioneer in English, he did not know what he would do so until he took an educational semester and loved him. He said he was attracted to primary education.
He grew up in the autumn river and no one knew about Cape Code when he arrived.
“I was very alone,” said even his future wife, Carole Murphy, met to cook new teachers in the Dennis Yarmouth regional school area. Deepin said he was very shy of her question, but when he did so finally, she said yes, and they just celebrated their thirty -seventh marriage.
Carrol Deepin is still studying in Marguarite E. Small Primary School In Yarmouth. Their three children, Tim, Hana and Johnny, who are now adults, attended the school where their father was main.
A long history at West Dennis School
Now, DePin cannot go anywhere in the city so that its former students, who attended the oldest and primary school only in Dennis. He also hired each teacher at school.
Deepin taught the second grade until November 1993 and just moved to teaching the third grade when he was appointed as a director. He became a director in February 1996 to replace the retired director.
He said that being a manager is a “perfect mix”. “I am in a situation where I can make a change, but I am still in contact with students, families and teachers.”
Deepin has also seen many changes.
When he started, there were 600 students. Now there are 385 this year, but approximately 100 employees.
Ezra Baker School is part of Dennis Yarmouth Regional Province. There are two primary schools in Yarmouth as well. The educational zone includes 3,054 students for the current academic year.
It was one of the biggest changes during the Dibin state in 2012 when it became the school Innovation School.
“I looked at it as a challenge. I didn’t want to add hours to this day, but I use time in the best possible way,” Deepin said.
He said that this included creating a healthy place with more exercises and holidays that children need.
The school also wrote a grant for a cafeteria salad bar, which Deepin said could compete with any salad bar in a restaurant or supermarket and it is happy that many students choose it.
The other innovation was to provide Spanish kindergarten classes to the third grade when there were a few students who spoke another language. He said that there are now about 85 non -English speakers at school.
the A quieter selection program The other innovation that Dibin said was very young students about some control of how they had done things. He said that innovation ideas spread to other schools in the region.
“We are still doing all of them,” Deepin said, even for the four -school classes before the kindergarten.
Covid-19: “At the forefront of solving problems”
The other main challenge for Dein was the main director during the epidemic when all schools were closed on March 20, 2020, then it was reopened in the fall in different formats, whether at school or at home.
“Everyone has worked hard and was very afraid of the disease,” Deepin said of his professors. He said that parents were also a great understanding of the situation.
But Debine took the epidemic as a challenge to keep it safe for everyone.
He said: “I would like to be the person at the forefront of solving problems.”
Care wheel: loose change of charities
He referred to a “care wheel” at the school’s front entrance, which is also part of the innovation program that teaches students about the care of others. Ezra Baker students gathered more than $ 1,000 in the current school from the loose change provided by parents and at the end of the school year, a committee of third -grade students will choose the charities that will benefit from them.
Debine is pleased that his replacement has been appointed – Patrick Riley, Director of the current Central Torro School And a close friend. Riley’s appointment is valid on July 1.
For himself, Deepin said, “I don’t know what the future hides. I would like to do something different.”
Susan Von writes about transportation and other local community issues that affect the residents of Cape Code and visitors. It can be accessed in [email protected].
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