Renew
Steller
Results from:
Interests, Views and
Contact Information Survey
Total # in Attendance = 88+
Total # of Surveys = 25 (20 parents + 5 students)
Counseling
Groups Represented from Surveys:
Bob = 2 Ken
= 2
Jack = 1 Lany = 1
Jean = 3 Nina
= 1
Jennifer = 1 Phillip = 4
Jim = 3
No CG Listed = 6
Interested
in Learning More About or Working on:
Educational
Methods
Jacquier Koenig
McNulty Eggleston (2) Whealy Ban
Grover Morris Riley
Youree
School
Organization
Blunt McNulty Eggleston, M. Whealy
Grover Morris
Cruz
Staff
& Student Body Development
Lankford Eggleston, M. Whealy OMalley
Cruz
Community
McNulty Youree Grabman
Koenig Lankford OMalley
Keeping
the Vision
Galvin
Interested
in Working All 5 Areas Simultaneously
Blunt Grover Morris Jordan, J.
Comments/Interests:
“Take what we have
that’s good & make it better. Find
what was lost & still desirable & resurrect it. Being a part of cohesive/unified dedicated
group to work for change.” “The triad of
control (staff, student, parents) seems difficult to manage, too many visionaries. Distill ideas and align them to the
philosophy needs to be done, renewed, redone (never be done b/c life
changes). But some decisions must be
made so that work can begin.” J. Jordan
“I’m learning as
much as I can about it!” N. Morris
“I’d like to
understand your reasoning (such as in keeping the vision).” B. Hafferman
“Getting more
students involved in their own education, the Steller community, and the
greater community.” B. Grabman
“Helping
to strengthen the school.” J. Shively
“To learn &
help Steller grow & learn more about things happening around Steller community.” M. OMalley
“Reaching
the students who need Steller. Open grading and learning options. Dumping the 2.0 GPA requirements &
replacing it w/ a more comprehensive analysis of success (attendance, effort,
improvement).” C. Lankford
“Promoting this program
to families that may not have information – Title 1 schools, non-optional
elementary student. Expanding
seminar programs.” L. Youree
“Greater
responsibility & freedom should be delivered w/ accountability. Grades are important. No to selective recruitment
for Steller. Fundraising
intensive.” M. McNulty
“I’m glad to see
this as a process involving the whole Steller community.” D. Riley
“Staff &
Student Body Dev: lottery process should
be open (answer to 3.c is “no.”
Diversity is good! Keeping the
Vision: having older student(s) helping
younger (or new to Steller) students is a good idea. ie: older student(s) going to lunch w/younger
students(s) to blend/fit in better & not be so shy for example.” V. Petrov
“Not sure – it
would be nice to have a follow up meeting to reassess where things stand (as
far as input & comments tonight) & what’s next.” A. McFarlane
“Not sure exactly
where I’ll fit in best, however, I’m glad this renewal has come about. I do have concerns about counseling groups;
some seem more involved than others. I
have a 7th grade son and he’s not a big communicator; so I’m not
sure what is going on, emails haven’t been much help. This weekend I’m spending time w/ Steller
alumni and I plan to bring the renewal of Steller to discuss with them. Thanks.”
M. Janigo
“Seminar
training to be coach & to be able to substitute in these classes.” W.
Whealy
“I’m willing to
continue with this productive conversation.
This staff needs support so our students can thrive. Our morning King Career Center Student was
pretty out of touch w/ what has been happening here all Fall b/c CG are always
in the mornings.” M. Eggleston
“Working seminar
practices into more classes. Using the
“I. Educational
Methods. I-1d: develop relationship w/ university. 3 d) I believe it is a little redundant,
good ideas. Though I
lean more towards I–3d. I-3f ) depth over breadth.
How much so? What would the
measurement be? Would it be
individualized results? I-4: penalties
for failure? Isn’t “failure” followed w/
learning from a failure? I-4d) I believe
this runs into II School Organization:
II-6b & II-7 (flexible schedule).
III-13 Student recruitment: b & c voiced my disapproval and
concern on these issues during meeting. III-14-b
Admissions: a more preferable avenue
then 13b & 14c. IV
Community: 16b) togetherness.
Create a speaker’s bureau..lots
of ?s who? What about? Expert? C) maybe extra
curricular not necessarily “extended.”
Explain. IV
-17 Community Involvement 17b a great idea. Follow through & dedication. 18a) reward individuality isn’t this already
integrated into Steller as the norm. V
Strategic Planning 19b) doesn’t this go back to # 13- student recruitment?
-- This is a great school & I hope & will try to help its vision
doesn’t get clouded. Keep up the great
work. Thank you.” A. Blunt
“Concerned
about making Steller elitist by only allowing open-optional students to attend.
Feel Steller benefits from having such a diverse population who come
from all over
“Educational best
practices. Improved communication b/t teachers
and parents; follow through on commitments made to contact parents. Education research findings are very clear on
several points regarding best practice w/ respect to testing and student
learning: 1) student are best served when test results are made available to
them as swiftly as possible after testing dates (& only rarely, under
unusual circumstances, any later than one week after the test date); 2)
students are best severed when they have ownership of and access to their own
test papers, meaning, students keep their own test papers, share their test
papers w/ their parents, and use them for further study – rather than teachers
keeping students’ test papers; 3) students are best served by being involved
& intimately familiar w/ designing and using the rubric used to grade their
tests – where possible, by direct involvement in the test evaluation process
(as in the 6+1 traits writing rubric scoring process). – Consistent with the
Steller philosophy of a humane education, test results would be made available
to students in a timely manner after exam dates. Consistent with the Steller philosophy of
students “being responsible for assisting in the continuous evaluation of their
performance,” students would be directly involved w/ test scoring, when possible,
& always have all their test papers returned for
them to keep, share w/ parents & study.” S. Jacquier