Communication with the School

Where to Go and Whom to Contact When You Have Questions

Parents are a tremendous resource—especially to their children.  At Summit, we recognize your profound commitment to your children. We honor that commitment by striving to support you as you support your children.  How?  In a variety of ways, including:

• When you have a question about curriculum, classroom projects, your child’s classroom experience/performance, homework and the like, we invite you to contact the classroom teacher.

• When you have a question about times and dates, events, due dates of parent forms/paperwork and the like, we invite you to contact your divisional office (Lower School: Early Childhood and Elementary; or Upper School).

• When you have parenting struggles/concerns/worries about your child’s social-emotional well-being and the like, we invite you to contact the counselor in your child’s division—Virginia Perry in Lower School and Devon Davis in Upper School.

• When you have parenting struggles/concerns/worries about your child’s learning profile, we invite you to contact your child’s homeroom teacher, the division head and/or Summit’s Director of Student Support Services Barbara Scantland.

• When you have questions about the philosophy or purpose of program, wonderings about principles of sound teaching or appropriate practice, thoughts on/insights into life at Summit or other questions regarding your child’s experience at Summit that others do not seem able to answer, we invite you to contact your child’s division head (Jeff Turner, Early Childhood; Roanne Ornelles, Elementary; Danette Morton, Upper School) or head of school Michael Ebeling.

• The Lovett Teacher/Parent Study Room, located on the third floor of the library is filled with a variety of books and articles intended to support you in that challenging and gratifying full-time job of parenthood.  We invite you to peruse what is available, to make suggestions on what we could include in our collection and to check out materials that interest you.

Our fundamental expectation is simple but crucial: Adults in our community can rely on direct, timely, honest, open communication with each other. Our communication will always feature good will, mutual respect and a shared interest in what is best for children. 

Summit educators and parents come together in a partnership dedicated to the personal and academic growth of each child. Always.