Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School
Minutes
PVPA January 2022 Executive Search Committee Meeting
PVPA January 2022 Executive Search Committee Meeting
Date and Time
Wednesday January 19, 2022 at 5:00 PM
Location
PVPA Library on Google
PVPA Executive Search Committee Agenda
Trustees Present
David Potter, Marty Espinola, Mindi Winter, Tonya Ward (remote)
Trustees Absent
Karin Kayser
Guests Present
Avital Nathman (remote), EJ Lafleur, Frank Newton (remote), L. Cartmill, Marcy Conner (remote), Martin Bridge (remote), Michele Veras (remote)
I. Opening Items
A.
Record Attendance
B.
Call the Meeting to Order
Marty Espinola called a meeting to order on Wednesday Jan 19, 2022 at 5:07 PM.
C.
Approve Minutes
Defer to next meeting since Minutes were not provided in advance.
II. Review Head of School Job Posting and Information from Potential Consultant
A.
Review Civitas Consulting Document
Marty reviewed discussion with Civitas Consulting firm - Headhunters that are willing to perform specialized a la carte services
The budget for this would be $5 to 35,000 for the entire project
Has PVPA used them before or have they been recommended?
- No, Governance came up with a list of 20 different companies that offered these types of services and narrowed the list down to this single company.
Can we get these references?
What is included in the $6000 job posting level?
We need to know if they can help us to do something that we can't do ourselves?
Marty is going to put Marcy in touch with Civitas to investigate this further.
#1 Would like an example of what they have done in the past - sample of what they have done
#2 What are the benefits of their posting the job, more details
#3. The Reference check is a go
III. Plan next meeting
A.
Recurring Weekly Meetings
5 PM on Wednesdays every week until the Job is posted and we are waiting for Resumes.
In the last search the Resumes were sent to Marcy then Marcy created a Binder for the Resumes and created a checkout process, she also created a checklist with a qualifications requirement list to advance the resume.
Build Tool to Rank each candidate then we will bring the highest-ranked candidates to Interview.
Need to add. Restorative Justice and Diversity to the Job Posting - where should it go and who should add it to the posting?
- Marcy and David will rework the posting
-EJ suggests that the generic items of Administration and Instruction are pushed down and pull the School Culture and Community be brought to the top and add Restorative Culture and peer to peer is added to the top of the Posting. - Due to the fact that the leader has to have Administration and Instructional leadership if they are going to be applying to Lead a school.
Next meeting - Making a decision about the Job Posting and then Posting the Job.
IV. Closing Items
A.
Adjourn Meeting
Martin asked about the other documents that were attached to the email, Marty stated that the documents may change as we go through this process and that a lot of those documents are just informative.
DIfference between the Job description and the job posting.
Marty to revise the Recommendations of the taskforce..doc for next week
There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 6:12 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mindi Winter
Documents used during the meeting
None