Woods Academy HOS departure?

[Anonymous]

He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good lord people. He's been at Woods for 12 years, navigated the pandemic, will have finished the construction/capital plan project, and it makes sense that its a good time for him to move onto his next role. The school has a strong admin, including an assistant head who has many years at woods under her belt, and a year to identify and name a new head.

This is all in order and makes plenty of sense to this Woods parent. I'm not at all worried, but excited to see how the school moves forward!

+1. Can any conspiracy-minded parents please send their kids somewhere else? The chill parent community is one of the reasons I love Woods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

No, you are wrong, he was not fired. He took a job out of state and his quitting aligned with the announcement at other school that he was coming in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

No, you are wrong, he was not fired. He took a job out of state and his quitting aligned with the announcement at other school that he was coming in.

Maybe he wasn’t fired, but he definitely screwed over your school. And that only happens when the board/head relationship is dysfunctional or damaged. Perhaps he knew he was not being offered a new contract. Regardless, heads don’t routinely leave on short notice. And boards of hiring schools know that they may have to wait for their preferred candidate to start—they don’t want to “steal” a head on short notice, just like they don’t want their head stolen from them on short notice. This is the way it regularly works. Look at the recent retirements from St Patrick’s and Maret—both announced more than a year in advance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

No, you are wrong, he was not fired. He took a job out of state and his quitting aligned with the announcement at other school that he was coming in.

Maybe he wasn’t fired, but he definitely screwed over your school. And that only happens when the board/head relationship is dysfunctional or damaged. Perhaps he knew he was not being offered a new contract. Regardless, heads don’t routinely leave on short notice. And boards of hiring schools know that they may have to wait for their preferred candidate to start—they don’t want to “steal” a head on short notice, just like they don’t want their head stolen from them on short notice. This is the way it regularly works. Look at the recent retirements from St Patrick’s and Maret—both announced more than a year in advance.

The job he took became available the summer before. Assume it took some time to interview candidates and get him on-board.
Departure was explained that he needed to get back to home state for family with no mention of new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

Why would they fill it with a temp instead of finding someone long term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

You talking about Woods now? It doesn’t matter when he gave notice from my standpoint. But the public announcement and start of the head search process are late as compared to best practices. And unless Woods just has a terrible board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have started that process—which necessarily includes announcing the head’s departure—as soon as possible if they truly want a new head for July 2023, as opposed to interim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

You talking about Woods now? It doesn’t matter when he gave notice from my standpoint. But the public announcement and start of the head search process are late as compared to best practices. And unless Woods just has a terrible board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have started that process—which necessarily includes announcing the head’s departure—as soon as possible if they truly want a new head for July 2023, as opposed to interim.

I think this is referring to the PPP's story about the headmaster who gave notice in June.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

You talking about Woods now? It doesn’t matter when he gave notice from my standpoint. But the public announcement and start of the head search process are late as compared to best practices. And unless Woods just has a terrible board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have started that process—which necessarily includes announcing the head’s departure—as soon as possible if they truly want a new head for July 2023, as opposed to interim.

Different school.
Woods hos has given plenty of notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

You talking about Woods now? It doesn’t matter when he gave notice from my standpoint. But the public announcement and start of the head search process are late as compared to best practices. And unless Woods just has a terrible board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have started that process—which necessarily includes announcing the head’s departure—as soon as possible if they truly want a new head for July 2023, as opposed to interim.

I think this is referring to the PPP's story about the headmaster who gave notice in June.

Yes, hard to follow! Posters should just name the other school with the late-departing head so those of us not in the know can follow along.

[Anonymous]

Anyhoo, prospective families should come to visit once the construction is done. It's going to be very nice!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

You talking about Woods now? It doesn’t matter when he gave notice from my standpoint. But the public announcement and start of the head search process are late as compared to best practices. And unless Woods just has a terrible board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have started that process—which necessarily includes announcing the head’s departure—as soon as possible if they truly want a new head for July 2023, as opposed to interim.

Different school.
Woods hos has given plenty of notice.

As pp explained, that is actually not true. The Woods BOT is behind the eight ball with their search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is giving plenty of notice. Went to one school where the headmaster gave notice right before school ended which gave no time to look for a new headmaster and had to fill it with a temporary one.

That head of school who “gave notice” right before school ended was almost certainly fired by their board.

Best practice advance notice is 18 months, not 8 or 9. Nine months requires the board to scramble to hire a consultant, create a committee, and get community feedback before even starting to identify candidates and do initial interviews. The “best” head candidates are interviewing in the fall, so those candidates may be off the board by the time Woods is ready. Woods may be behind the curve here and may end up deciding to have an interim head for a year.

The Board could have known the end of the school year. The public announcement doesn't mean he just gave notice.

You talking about Woods now? It doesn’t matter when he gave notice from my standpoint. But the public announcement and start of the head search process are late as compared to best practices. And unless Woods just has a terrible board, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have started that process—which necessarily includes announcing the head’s departure—as soon as possible if they truly want a new head for July 2023, as opposed to interim.

Different school.
Woods hos has given plenty of notice.

As pp explained, that is actually not true. The Woods BOT is behind the eight ball with their search.

How far in advance is someone supposed to give notice?
I’ve only ever given 2 weeks. This is nearly a year.