Family, faculty meetings April 2
In an email sent on Tuesday, March 25, Director Search Committee Co-Chairs Naima Walker Fierce and Erin Zagnoev announced Carney, Sandoe & Associates will assist USN in finding the Director and consultants’ upcoming site visit.
Dear PDS/USN community,
We are pleased to write to you about USN’s Director search, the process we will follow, and our anticipated timeline.
The Board of Trustees’ Director Search Committee, announced last month, is working closely with Carney, Sandoe & Associates, the independent school search firm the Board has retained, to identify our next Head of School. The committee followed a procurement process that included interviewing representatives from four firms. CS&A is an internationally recognized education search firm with extensive knowledge of independent schools, and we especially value the strong pipelines it has previously built in bringing faculty to USN. The firm has nearly 50 years of experience successfully guiding K-12 schools through searches for exceptional heads of schools. We are especially excited to work with the experienced and talented three-member team of Darryl Ford, Marsha Little, and Marguerite Lloyd.
CS&A will visit our campus next week to get to know the USN community and meet with a wide range of community members, including students, faculty, staff, administrators, families, and trustees. We invite faculty and staff to join CS&A on Wednesday, April 2 at either 7:15-8 a.m. in the Gordon Multipurpose Room or 3:30-4:15 p.m. in the Payne Library Room. We invite parents and families to join CS&A on Wednesday, April 2 at either 8:15-9 a.m. in the Gordon Multipurpose Room or 4:30-5:15 p.m. in the Payne Library Room. The purpose of these sessions is for our consultants to understand the many perspectives on the Director position. And student voice is critical in supporting the scout for our next Director.
Shortly after their visit, we will solicit your feedback through a community-wide survey to help CS&A write a new position description and find candidates to help carry out our school’s strategic plan, mission, and guiding principles. Please watch your inbox for more information about that opportunity to offer written input in the coming weeks.
Shortly after their visit, we will solicit your feedback through a community-wide survey to help CS&A write a new position description and find candidates to help carry out our school’s strategic plan, mission, and guiding principles. Please watch your inbox for more information about that opportunity to offer written input in the coming weeks.
As we prepare for our next steps, please note that CS&A has advised we remain flexible with respect to the search timeline, given the extremely competitive landscape of leadership recruitment. We will communicate as the search process unfolds and endeavor to share as much as possible while maintaining the confidentiality necessary to recruit and interview the most talented educational leaders. We anticipate opportunities for the USN community to meet finalists in the fall and will solicit your feedback on those candidates.
Thank you for your participation in this search process and do reply to directorsearch@usn.org with any questions you may have about this process.
Sincerely,
Naima Walker Fierce, Trustee, Director Search Committee Co-Chair
Naima Walker Fierce, Trustee, Director Search Committee Co-Chair
Erin Zagnoev, Board Vice President, Director Search Committee Co-Chair
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