Natick Superintendent Search: Screening Committee Formed, Meeting This Week

Press release from Natick Public Schools:

12/08/2023

The School Committee is pleased to announce two major milestones we have accomplished in our path towards selecting our next permanent Superintendent:

Candidate Profile:

Thanks to so many of you who participated in our survey and our focus groups, we were able to collect a significant amount of feedback from the community about what you are looking for in our next superintendent. Specifically, over 700 people participated in the needs-assessment process (123 in focus groups and 581 in the online survey). Our consultants, Sally Dias and Judith Paolucci from NESDEC, synthesized all this data and created a Candidate Profile (available below), which the School Committee approved unanimously in our December 4th meeting. This Candidate Profile will inform the Screening Committee in its selection of the three to five finalists followed by the School Committee’s selection of the permanent superintendent.

Screening Committee: The School Committee is proud to announce the formation of the screening committee for our superintendent search. The members of the screening committee are:

• Matt Brand (Chair), School Committee
• Catherine Brunell, School Committee
• Sue Balboni, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning and Innovation (Central Office)
• Aidan McCann, Brown Elementary School Principal
• Liz Gregg, Elementary School educator/Education Association of Natick
• Marti Neugarten, Middle School educator/Education Association of Natick
• Emily Diesl, High School educator/Education Association of Natick
• Tamika Scott, parent, METCO
• Carie Lyn Carnahan, parent, Parent Coordinating Council (PCC)
• Dani Newland, parent, Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SEPAC)
• Nadini Bajpai, Community Member at Large
• Bethany Loughran, Natick High School Student
• Jamie Errickson, Natick Town Administrator

The Screening Committee’s tasks will be to review all applicants’ resumes, select candidates for first round interviews, conduct first round interviews, and select three to five candidate finalists for consideration to the School Committee. The Screening Committee will hold its first open meeting on December 14th at 5:30 p.m. in the School Committee meeting room on the 3rd floor of Town Hall. This meeting will include an orientation for the Screening Committee members and an overview of the selection process.

We want to thank all members of the community who participated in our focus groups and surveys! Your input is invaluable in advising the School Committee on the selection of our next superintendent.

If you have any questions about the process, please do not hesitate to contact the School Committee at schoolcommittee[at]natickps.org.

This press release was produced by Natick Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.