APPROVED 1-5-2021

Board of Education Superintendent Search Oversight Committee Meeting (Tuesday, December 15, 2020)

Generated by Lisa Gabriel on Tuesday, December 22, 2020

1. Superintendent Search Committee

A. Call To Order

B. Roll Call

C. Approval of Notes Nov. 10, 2020

The notes were approved as printed.

D. McPherson & Jacobson Search Update

Mr. Lowder updated the committee on the search update. Applications will close Dec 30. Twelve applications with many more expected. He reminded the board that the 18th the board would select the finalists.

E. Survey Results

He updated the search survey results. The responses are quite typical. In their experience it is a normal set of responses. 158 participants in the survey, which Mr. Lowder felt was a good number. He appreciated Ms. Erkeneff for her work on getting the message out to people to participate in the survey. He felt that it was a very fair and balanced survey. The data will be used to share with the candidates. The raw data gives the candidate the broadest picture. He recommends the raw data on the page. The successful candidate who becomes superintendent will need the data.

F. Finalist Interview Questions

Number of questions, format and how they will be used and presented. What does the firm do? The board can go in several directions. They can choose from the draft questions. If you are doing a stakeholders and a board interview, you would choose two from each category. The committee can throw them out and use your own. They will do what the committee wants to do. He explained the process of interview. The protocol that the company recommends is that you have a school board group, community staff and stakeholder group. Someone will record strengths and weaknesses of each candidate. The stakeholder interview team will keep their information until the board looks at the candidates. Board will access information after they have made their preliminary decision. How many people on the stakeholder group? Mr. Lowder says that the stakeholder team would come from teacher group, classified, administrators, community members. Teams should be in the neighborhood of 10 people. Not usually second guessing. Usually the two groups choose the same or similar. It is rare that the community stakeholder team is polar opposite of the the board selection. Interviews are not normally public. The board and stakeholders could do an open session within zoom and a poll could be administered with only the people in the zoom. Past practice in KPBSD has been to have open interviews. Board deliberations will be in private. Narrow down to three to five candidates hopefully after vetting and videos. We need to determine process of interviews.

G. Timeline

The committee discussed the timeline.

H. Next Meeting

Tentative January 5th.