1. Wellesley Public Schools
40 Kingsbury Street Superintendent’s Bulletin
Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481
http://www.wellesley.k12.ma.us/district/bulletins.htm
Bella T. Wong Bulletin #14
Superintendent of Schools December 11, 2009
The Superintendent’s Bulletin is posted weekly on Fridays on our website. It provides timely, relevant
information about meetings, professional development opportunities, curriculum and program development,
grant awards, and school committee news. The bulletin is also the official vehicle for job postings. Please
read the bulletin regularly and use it to inform colleagues of meetings and other school news.
Remembering Susan
Susan Sullivan earned a Master’s degree in early childhood education in 1993 from Wheelock College, 26
years after earning a Bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Trinity University in San Antonio,
Texas. During those intervening years, Susan and her husband raised a beautiful family of sons, with whom
we now grieve. Susan began her career in Wellesley as a teaching assistant at the Schofield School in
1994. She was appointed in 1997 to be a special educator at the Hunnewell School, where she served for
twelve years. Her sons married, and Susan recently became a very happy grandmother.
As a special educator, Susan worked with hundreds of students and their teachers on an individual basis.
Working with Susan was a personally intimate and enriching experience, so much so that when teachers
were not collaborating with Susan because they were not teaching students on her caseload, they found
themselves missing her and longing for the next opportunity to work with her. Susan was a special person
who filled in the cracks as she found them and made everything, including people, better and more whole.
Generous of heart and soul, Susan achieved this with subtle grace.
Susan was diagnosed with cancer only last September, but the diagnosis brought with it a realization that
the cancer must have been with her for some time, undetected. In her own special way, Susan reassured
us and said often, “Don't you worry about me; I'll be back.” And we believed her. We thought she, and we,
had more time and that she would be back. The years that Susan spent in the Wellesley Public Schools have
been very good years, and those of us who had the opportunity to know her are fortunate and much the
better for it.
Calendar
Monday 12/14 WTA Rep Council, 3:30 pm at High School
Tuesday 12/15 School Committee Meeting, Town Hall, 7:30 pm
Thursday 12/24 Year-end Vacation Begins
Monday 01/04 School Resumes

2. School Committee
Report December 8, 2009
Recognition: •Director of Fitness and Health Toni Duval, and middle school students, faculty, and parent
volunteers, who together worked to realize a successful 2009 Turkey Promenade on November 25. The event
resulted in donations of non perishable food to sustain a local shelter for an entire year.
Discussion/Action Superintendent Wong presented a recommended budget for FY11. School committee
approved the academic year calendar for 2010-2011 and a revised Entrance Age Policy.
School Committee Agenda Complete School Committee Minutes are posted at
December 15, 2009 www.wellesley.K12.ma.us/schoolcom/PAGES/MINUTES/2009-2010
7:30 pm Personnel Announcements, Consent Agenda, Reports, Citizen Speak Action/Discussion: •Programs of
Study: Middle School and High School • Revised 2009-10 School Improvement Plan, Middle School
8:30 pm Citizen Speak
Superintendent’s Recommended FY11 Budget Access to the
Superintendent’s FY11 budget presentation to school committee is available through a link on the Wellesley
Public Schools website home page.
Leadership Licensure Programs For information about upcoming LLP opportunities
to become licensed as •Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent •Principal/Assistant Principal
•Supervisor/Director, log on to www.mssaa.org/LLPhomepage.htm -- or -- www.leadershiplicensure.org. For
additional information you may also call MSSAA at 508.541.7997.
Condolences to the
family, friends, and all Congratulations to Lennie Becker,
Wellesley Public Schools Secretary at Sprague School, on the birth
colleagues of Hunnewell of her first grandchild, Elias Madkouri,
School Special Educator November 25, 2009
Susan G. Sullivan, who
died suddenly on
Tuesday, December 8,
2009. A memorial service
will take place Saturday,
December 12. Additional
information is available at
http://sites.google.com/site
/susansullivanfamily/
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3. Positions Available
Elementary Principal Seeking a principal to lead the Sprague Elementary (K-5) School. The Wellesley
community strongly supports its public schools. Core values are academic excellence, cooperative and caring
relationships, respect for human differences, commitment to community. Candidates must have a Master's
degree and be certified as an elementary school principal. Work year is 214 days effective July 1, 2010. Current
FY 10 salary range is $109,829 - $126,147.
Please send cover letter, resume, three letters of reference, transcripts, and certification by January 13, 2010 to
Carol Gregory, Asst. Supt., 40 Kingsbury Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Therapeutic Tutor Therapeutic tutor needed for a middle school student eight hours per week. Salary
$25.76/hr. Send cover letter, resume, and three letters of reference to Personnel, Wellesley Public Schools, 40
Kingsbury Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.
Full time or Part time High School English Teacher High School English Teacher needed
starting January 4, 2010 to teach sophomore American Literature and Senior English. Send cover letter, resume,
three letters of reference, transcripts and licensure to: Personnel, Wellesley Public Schools, 40 Kingsbury Street,
Wellesley, MA 02481.
Teaching Assistant Full-time teaching assistant needed for student included in a 2nd grade classroom.
Early elementary curriculum experience required. Salary $17.53 - $21.31/hr. plus medical and dental benefits.
Send cover letter, resume, and three letters of reference to Personnel, Wellesley Public Schools, 40 Kingsbury
Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.
Long-Term Substitute Opportunities Teaching Positions ($166.76/day)
• High School Mathematics Long-term substitute needed to teach Algebra 2 at the ACP level, Algebra 2
and Personal Finance 1 at the CP level and Introduction to Statistics and Personal Finance 2 at the CP level.
starting mid-February 2010. Applicants must have a math background.
• Grade 7 Biology Long-term substitute needed from February 5 to April 26, 2010. Teacher should be
comfortable using technology in the classroom and be familiar with using a SmartBoard.
Please send cover letter, resume, three letters of reference, transcripts and licensure to Personnel,
Wellesley Public Schools, 40 Kingsbury Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.
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