{"id":87365,"date":"2024-01-25T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=87365"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:00:12","slug":"next-steps-state-superintendent-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/next-steps-state-superintendent-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Board of Education Moves Forward With Next Steps in State Superintendent Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MEDIA CONTACT:<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raven Hill, 410-767-0486<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span> <a href=\"mailto:raven.hill@maryland.gov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raven.hill@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Maryland State Board of Education Moves Forward With Next Steps in State Superintendent Search<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leadership Profile and stakeholder engagement phase completed; applications open through March 1.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>BALTIMORE (January 25, 2024) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The Maryland State Board of Education completed the development of the Leadership Profile that it will use to identify and screen potential candidates to serve as the next State Superintendent of Schools as the search process moves to the application phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Leadership Profile shows the key desired characteristics that students, parents, educators, community members, and stakeholders collectively identified as critical traits for the next State Superintendent in the course of their duties: an innovative, collaborative, and reform-minded leader who is an experienced educator and an outstanding communicator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This feedback was collected following more than 30 focus groups, individual interviews, and community town halls of over 200 Maryland stakeholders. A public online survey also captured feedback from 353 individuals that helped inform the formation of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Documents\/2024\/0123\/Leadership-Profile-MSDE-Presentation-A.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leadership Profile report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In total, 564 stakeholders participated in the initial outreach process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the completion of this phase of stakeholder engagement and the development of the Leadership Profile that will serve as the State Board\u2019s guiding <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Documents\/MDSE-Supt-Desired-Characteristics.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">document<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for screening candidates, the search process moves to the application and screening phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">application for the position of State Superintendent of Schools<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is active and will remain open through Friday, March 1. The State Board will begin reviewing candidates following the close of the application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For additional information on the search process, visit the State Board <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Pages\/superintendent-search.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or review the presentation provided to the State Board at its January 23 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandpublicschools.org\/stateboard\/Documents\/2024\/0123\/MSDE-LP-Presentation-Jan-23-A.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meeting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland State Board of Education completed the development of the Leadership Profile that it will use to identify and screen potential candidates to serve as the next State Superintendent of Schools as the search process moves to the application phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,38,5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-mediaalert","category-news","category-newsreleases","category-overview"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87365"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88823,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87365\/revisions\/88823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}