April 21, 2022

EHS announces Kevin Rea as new President
The Edgewood High School Board of Directors announced today that Kevin Rea, a highly regarded and respected Catholic school administrator from Rhode Island, will be filling the president role currently held by Mike Elliott. Elliott announced his retirement last October after nine years of service in the school’s top leadership position. Mr. Rea will begin his role on July 1.
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March 28, 2022

The EHS President Search Committee has continued our process of assessing candidates. We posted the job on conventional education sites, on sites with access to traditionally marginalized communities, on conventional job posting sites, and on Catholic-focused sites. Our search firm did active outreach for candidates and reached out to people suggested by members of the EHS community. After reviewing all applicants, Carney Sandoe determined that 63 applicants met the requirements for consideration, including that the President must be Catholic. Of those, more than half were women and more than 11% represented traditionally marginalized populations. Given the number of active private school searches open throughout the country, Carney Sandoe was very pleased with the breadth, depth, and diversity of the candidate pool. The Search Committee shared that appreciation.

As we mentioned in our last update, we narrowed the list down to 3 candidates who we interviewed in greater depth March 12 and March 14. They were provided 2 questions in advance, responded to a list of questions live, and then, after the interview, had a short period of time to provide a written response outlining their approach to a scenario we posed. On March 15, the Search Committee met to review our notes and decided to move two of the candidates forward for in-person interviews.

Since then, we have been checking the candidates’ references and developing the on-site interview schedule. One candidate will come the first week of April and one will come the second week of April. Both candidates will follow the same schedule of interviews and group meetings with key constituents over the course of 2 on-site days. All members of our EHS community who have scheduled meetings with the candidates will have the opportunity to provide feedback via an electronic survey. The Search Committee will consider that survey feedback in making our decision as to which (if any) candidate we recommend to the Board of Directors.

We will be in direct contact with those who will be part of the on-site interview process to invite them to their scheduled meeting or interview time. To protect the confidentiality of each candidate, we will not provide the candidates’ names or work history until 24 hours before their respective visits.

Thank you for your continued patience and support as we make our way through the selection process.

March 11, 2022

The President Search has been very active in recent weeks. Our search firm Carney Sandoe assessed all of the applicants and provided the Search Committee with a slate of applicants who had met the search criteria. After reviewing those candidates, the Search Committee selected 8 candidates to move forward in the process. During the weekend of Feb 26th and 27th, the Search Committee conducted interviews of the 8 candidates. On Feb 28th, the Search Committee met to share feedback and selected 4 candidates to move forward in the process. All 4 of the candidates have extensive prior experience as presidents of high schools.

On March 12th and 14th, we will conduct more in-depth interviews of the remaining candidates. The interviews will include some questions provided in advance for which candidates will present their prepared answers during the interview, some questions asked live in person, and one case study, which will be sent after the interview and will require the candidates to draft a response and return it for our review in a tight time span. After that, we will assess which (if any) will be brought to EHS for in-person interviews and meetings. After these interviews, if we are not confident in the suitability of the candidates, we are willing to reopen the search and continue interviewing. We are committed to finding the best person.

We are planning to have the on-campus, in-person interviews in the first two weeks of April, subject to candidate availability. We will follow the format suggested by Carney Sandoe for those on campus interviews, including meetings with faculty, staff, administration, board, the search committee, and key stakeholders. There will be opportunity for those who meet with the candidates to provide feedback, which will be considered by the Search Committee in making its final recommendation to the Board regarding hiring our next President.

February 8, 2022