New Superintendent Search & Hiring Updates
Superintendent Search Timeline
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January 24, 2025 (2:00 pm, Special Meeting) |
Planning meeting – Board adopts search timeline, reviews hiring criteria, search procedures, market positioning, and public involvement |
| January 27, 2025 – March 3, 2025 | MSBA posts opening on local, regional, and national websites, advertises position vacancy, receives applications, and responds to applicants’ inquiries |
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March 3, 2025
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Board meets for interview training, and to discuss interview questions, audience input groups, and interview procedures |
| March 3, 2025 | Application Deadline |
| March 4 – March 17, 2025 | MSBA conducts screening, preliminary verification of references, pre-interviews of recommended applicants |
| March 5 – March 17, 2025 | Board members review applications |
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March 17, 2025 (5:30 pm, Regular Meeting) MSBA attends virtually |
Board meets to determine finalists, interview questions and procedures; MSBA reviews interview training |
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March 21, 2025 (4:00 pm, Special Meeting) |
Board conducts first round of interviews |
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March 31, 2025 (4:00 pm, Special Meeting) |
Board conducts reference checks and holds second round of interviews; Board selects lone finalist and sets negotiations process |
| April 1, 2025 | Board designee begins negotiations of employment contract |
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April 7, 2025 (5:30 pm, Regular Meeting) |
Board meets to approve employment contract |
| July 1, 2025 | New superintendent reports to work |
| August 1 – December 31, 2025 | New Board Team attends MSBA Transition Workshop |
View/download the PDF version of the Superintendent Search Timeline or click the “Superintendent Search Timeline” button below.
View/download the PDF version of the Vacancy Brochure or click the “Vacancy Brochure” button below.
View the Superintendent Search Informational Meeting with MSBA video or click the “Informational Meeting with MSBA” button below..