Hopkinton School Committee names liaisons, sets screening committee structure for superintendent search

Hopkinton School Committee members on Thursday named Nancy Kavanaugh as the committeeliaison and Sheena (the districtdirector of human resources) as the administrative liaison for the districtsuperintendent search and approved a 13-member screening committee structure to vet candidates for the district's next superintendent.

The decision formalizes several procedural items for a search that NESDC (the New England School Development Council) will facilitate. NESDC consultants Judy, David DeRosi and Christina McGonigal presented the search process, described outreach and focus-group plans and proposed a timeline that would aim for a May 1 selection and a July 1 start date for the new superintendent.

The school committeeliaison and administrative liaison roles will handle weekly logistics for the search, including reserving interview space and shepherding materials to committee meetings, Judy, a NESDC consultant, told the committee. "This is your search. You will be the ones making all the key decisions," Judy said, describing NESDC's role as facilitator and recruiter.

Committee members also approved a screening-committee composition, by motion, that lists specific role categories rather than names: two school committee members, a CPAC parent, a parent representing groups serving multilingual families (for example LPAC or similarly focused parent groups), one select-board member, two administrative representatives (central-office and building-level), two representatives from the Hopkinton Teachers Association (one from HTA leadership and one…