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Beaver Island school board plans superintendent and principal succession

Also Beaver Island Community School superintendent succession plan 2012

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Dates2012-08 – 2013-06
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Summary

The August and November 2012 Beaver Beacon issues document Beaver Island Community School’s succession planning for the superintendent and K-12 principal role. The November update records the hiring-brochure criteria and a schedule running from the November 30 application deadline through January 2013 interviews and a planned mid-June 2013 start.

Evidence limits

The reports document the board’s process and planned timeline, not the identity or eventual appointment of a successor.

Sources

  1. School-board notice schedules an August 13 public input meeting, identifies former Char-Em ISD superintendent Mark Eckhardt as the search consultant, and states that Kathleen McNamara planned to retire in June 2013. The forum notice does not establish the meeting outcome or later hiring decision.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005300
  2. Beaver Beacon, August 2012, "Board Following Succession Plan to Replace Superintendent/K-12 Principal."
    Reports the school board''s succession planning to replace the superintendent and K-12 principal. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-08_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The held August issue scan confirms this source thread.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-08_Beaver-Beacon
  4. Beaver Beacon, November 2012, "School Board Moves Forward in Plan to Replace Superintendent/K-12 Principal."
    Reports that the board finalized its hiring-brochure language and search timeline, with applications due November 30, interviews in January 2013, selection the week of January 21, and the new administrator scheduled to begin in mid-June 2013. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-11_Beaver-Beacon
  5. The held November issue scan confirms the succession-search update.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-11_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026 · revised 8 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island school board plans superintendent and principal succession”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-superintendent-succession-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “PUBLIC MEETING FOR INPUT ON PRINCIPAL/SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH”, August 3, 2012. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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