Page 3 - Sage Annual Report 2012-2013

LETTER FROM

THE BOARD CHAIR

The 2012-2013 school year was a busy one at Sage! Beyond recruiting Dr. Wodarz and providing strategic

The Board of Trustees’ most important responsibility counsel to her as she quickly and successfully

and area of focus was securing strong leadership for transitioned into her leadership role, the Board revisited

the school. Throughout the Head Search process, and reined the school’s strategic goals, and completed

our primary objective was to have the appropriate both ordinary and special project committee work.
capabilities in place to deliver on our mission as a leader Some examples include assessing and enhancing

in the ield of gifted education. We decided to recruit an school security, overseeing the reinancing of school

Interim Head of School to meet our short-term needs debt, approving tuition payment plans and increasing

and to enable us to conduct a comprehensive search for communications regarding Board composition

a Permanent Head of School.
and activities.

The Board engaged the services of a highly respected Thank you to the entire Sage community for your

head search consulting irm, Educational Directions, to extraordinary commitment to our mission, and for all

help us recruit the best leadership for Sage. In addition, that you do to support it. The hard work that we

the Board formed Interim Head and Permanent Head completed together in 2012-2013 further strengthened

Search Committees and appointed long-standing trustees our school. This was an exciting year for Sage and our

as Chairs. The committees’ recommendation to appoint future is bright!
Dr. Nan Wodarz was unanimously endorsed by the full

Board of Trustees and enthusiastically celebrated by the Sincerely,

Sage community at the all school barbeque.

Dr. Wodarz is well positioned to lead our school, and we

are fortunate to have her. An accomplished administrator Kim Kaplan
and teacher with nearly three decades in private and

public education, she is well versed in all areas of school

business. Dr. Wodarz has brought signiicant expertise

and energy to Sage, and has had a very positive

impact. She has also demonstrated a deep passion for

our mission, community and, most importantly, our
talented students.

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