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NEWS:

Executive Director Position Posted

November 25, 2024

The posting for the Executive Director position is posted at the MN School Board Association. Posting is live from November 25, 2024 to January 20, 2025.

Board Letter Announcing Executive Director Search

August 19, 2024

St. Croix Prep Academy Families, Staff, and Community,

Hello and welcome back to the school year hustle! In our roles as Chair and Vice-Chair of the school board, we would like to provide an update on the upcoming executive director search and hiring process.

As you may or may not have heard by now, Jon Gutierrez will be retiring as our executive director at the end of our current fiscal year, June 30, 2025. We thank him for his work at St. Croix Prep over the last 20 years, during which he built a vision, a school, and a community from the ground up—literally! The entire board wishes him nothing but the best in his future endeavors.

The school board is in the early stages of our search for a permanent executive director to take over when Jon retires in June 2025. We plan to conduct this search during the prime hiring season of late fall to early winter of 2024–25, with the goal of having a new executive director start on July 1, 2025. Since the fall of 2023, the board has been partnering with Rebar Leadership to facilitate stakeholder feedback and engagement in this process. We began organizing the search process this summer and have since hired the Minnesota School Boards Association (MSBA) to serve as our consultant. The Succession Planning Committee of the board has been meeting regularly to define the process, timeline, and goals over the past nine months.

Additional details are available on this webpage.

Please contact Bob Hajlo or Terri Gulbransen with any questions.

Good luck to everyone as you start the new school year.

Sincerely,

Bob Hajlo,

St. Croix Prep Board Chair

Terri Gulbransen

St. Croix Prep Vice Chair

Timeline:

2024

Board Training

Board Effectiveness Survey

Communicate Process to Stakeholders

Search Timeline

“Change Cycle”Training Part 1

Executive Director Time Study Completed

Refine Job description with time study

Announce to Community

Communicate Process to Stakeholders

Determine Hiring Criteria

Compensation and benefits reviewed.

“Change Cycle” Training Part 2

Survey of SPC and Board

Candidate Submission Materials

Applications Procedures/
Workflow

NOV 25

Post position state wide and nationally

2025

JAN 20

Application Deadline

JAN 22-FEB 4

Candidate Submissions

Screen Candidates

Verify Candidate References

FEB 4

1st Interview Invitations

Candidates Announcement

1st Interview Logistics

FEB 22

1st INTERVIEW

Finalists Announced After Interview

Additional Reference Checks

2nd Interview Invitations

FEB 25

Q&A “Meet the Candidate” Community Sessions

FEB 26

2nd INTERVIEW

Board - Decide Finalist

FEB 27-MAR 4

Background Screening

Negotiations

Acceptance

MAR 4

Contract Approval

Communication of New ED

Start Date

of new Executive Director

Under Construction

Please note: We are in the process of updating our faculty directory over the summer and thus some information may be out of date.