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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

Different school. 
[b]Woods hos has given plenty of notice.[/b] [/quote]

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

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

In independent schools, when a head of school announces his or her departure, best standard practice is 18 months. [b]It is an entirely different animal from other types of jobs[/b] that you might have personal experience with. As pp stated, look at Maret and St Patrick’s as recent examples.[/quote]

No, it’s really not. [/quote]

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