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Topic: Finding Out What Happened/ Interrogation/Interview Techniques

Convenor: Donna Linton, Lawrence Woodmere Academy, dlinton@lawrencewoodmere.org Participants: Jon Rosenshine || jrosenshine@buckelyschool.org || Denise Frazier || dfrazier@vcs-nyc.org || G. Ekotto || Gekotto@fasny.org || Jessica Romero || jromeros@vcs-nyc.org || Nancy Posner || nposner@polyprep.org || Nora Elish || nelish@dalton.org || Jane Eisenstadt || jeisenstadt@clarermontprep.org || Shelley Silbering || ssilbering@lawrencewoodmere.org || Kathleen McNary || kmcnary@dalton.org || Connie Ennis || cennis@gfacademy.org || Ann Cass || ann.cass@woosterschool.org || Headlines:


 * Have parties wait outside office
 * If it happens outside of school/phone or internet: possible actions
 * Fair game for school
 * Suggest parents go to police
 * Discuss with parents that this could go to the police
 * Use open-ended questions
 * Honor code
 * Each time a student submits a project, etc, make it a prominent attachment
 * Greens Farms- putting in an honor code from scratch
 * This is different from a code of conduct
 * Refer all incidents back to honor code
 * Interview/Interrogation team effot- who would be the best person to do theh interrogation?
 * Good cop/bad cop
 * Should all involved kids be in same room or not?