Duveneck Website Blog

Minutes for the February 5th, 2008 Duveneck Site Council Meeting

Members in attendance: Ching-wen Miron, Kathy Thibault, Kathleen Meagher, Diane Gosney, Linda van Gelder, Heidi Mickelsen, Jon Foster, Mark Robbins, Esther Yoon, Jaynie Schemel

Guest in attendance: Susan Mittmann

Review Agenda; Approved minutes from January

Open Forum: Susan Mittmann shared some concerns brought up by some parents at previous coffees with the principal regarding after school programs. She expressed that some people would like to know the following and requested that the site council consider asking such questions on the school wide survey:

1- how many families are seeking supplemental academic instruction (eg. math, science, writing, foreign language) outside the classroom.

2- why (eg. enrichment, remediation, different teaching style, different content).

The SSC received correspondence from Giselle Galper and Soma Mitra requesting that the group discuss concerns they have regarding mathematics. It was agreed that this topic would be placed on a future agenda.

School Site Plan:

The SSC continued to monitor the 2007-08 School Site Plan (aka Single Plan for Student Achievement). The group discussed progress in the areas of School Climate.

Discussion of 2008 Survey:

The group continued a discussion of the parent survey in terms of questions to include and appropriate phrasing to ensure that we will get the information we are seeking. We did not complete this task and agreed to reconvene on Monday, February 11th.

Scheduled an additional meeting for Monday, February 11th

Issues to be discussed include:

• Which questions need to be answered if families have more than one child?

• Do we want to include questions as requested by Susan Mittmann;

• Clarify the question we want to ask about PiE;

• How to phrase the question about the Duveneck Partnership;

• Questions for the teacher and student survey.

Meeting was adjourned.