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Board to discuss administrator retention and succession planning after trustees request agenda item
Summary
Trustees discussed recent departures of administrators and asked the superintendent to add a focused agenda item on retention and succession planning; board member Melissa Kelly Black agreed to submit bullet points to guide the discussion.
Board members raised concerns July 14 about turnover among building and central-office administrators and asked the superintendent to place retention and succession planning on a future board agenda. "We lost some good people to some other districts," said a trustee who asked that the board examine strategies to increase retention of principals, vice principals and cabinet members. Several trustees said they support a focused agenda item that would examine leadership development and succession planning, including growing leaders internally and other retention strategies. Trustee Christine Gierke reminded colleagues that the board's agenda process requires a written rationale from the member requesting an item so staff can scope the conversation. The board president asked Trustee Melissa Kelly Black to submit a few bullet points of rationale directly to Superintendent Dan Bridges to help staff prepare. Trustee Dan Bridges (the superintendent) and other administrators agreed to work with board leadership to scope the item. Later in the meeting, the board approved the personnel report (consent item 7.02) by roll call vote; that routine personnel motion passed without comment apart from the retention discussion that preceded it.
