Guidepost Montessori interview questions

Thank you for providing feedback and sharing about your experience in the interview process. We acknowledge that in our pursuit to find excellent school leaders for our schools, we are diligent in creating a process in which not only are we gauging leadership skillset and likelihood of success in role, but we are also allowing space for candidates to decide if we are the right choice as the next step in their career. Replacing a Head of School who has received an internal promotion within our organization is a responsibility we take very seriously. This requires a series of extensive interviews as a critical part of the process for protecting our school’s culture and ensuring a seamless transition for our school community. This often requires input from a variety of stakeholders, and we know that this process can take considerable time. We fully acknowledge that our fast-paced start-up culture with a maniacal focus on delivering a high-quality Montessori education may not be for everyone. We also know that our mission to educate children using the Montessori pedagogy in which diversity and inclusion are inherently at the core of everything we do, may not be always be fully understood by those who do not already have experience working in a Montessori school. It is our priority to create thriving and enduring school communities all across the globe. Your perspective highlights a challenge that many schools face and is a top concern of ours, too. It is simply challenging to provide a high- quality educational program in an expensive city. In our pursuit to do this we offer substantial financial assistance for all kinds of families to join us and need to balance that with compensation ranges that allow for a sustainable program. It became clear throughout the offer process that your approach to leading a school community and the specific needs of this particular school were not a match. We openly shared this fact with you when we ultimately made the decision to rescind the offer. This outcome was not due to your perception that we do not value diversity and inclusion, because we clearly do. As a fundamental value of Montessori pedagogy, it is core to our mission to give each child the opportunity to reach their fullest human potential. We wish you success in finding a position that focuses on the ways in which you are looking to contribute to education.