Hatfield Public Schools

Hatfield taps 2 finalists for Principal position

Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Staff Writer, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 3/24/2020

HATFIELD — Principals at two elementary schools in Franklin County are finalists to become the next principal at Hatfield Elementary School beginning July 1. Conor Driscoll, principal at Gill Elementary School in Gill since 2015, and Lindsay Rodriguez, principal at Hawlemont Elementary School in Charlemont since 2018, were selected from 31 applicants for the position…. [Read More]

Hatfield names three finalists for schools chief

Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Scott Merzbach, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 3/17/2020
Link: Complete Article

HATFIELD – The director of special education for the Frontier Regional and Union #38 school districts, along with a Pittsfield principal and a Vermont superintendent, are finalists to become the next superintendent for the Hatfield public schools. The Hatfield School Committee Tuesday announced that it has narrowed a field of 31 applicants to three finalists to… [Read More]

Longtime principal Luce will take interim post at Hatfield Elementary

Posted on Thursday, July 25th, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 7/24/2019
Link: Complete Article

HATFIELD — Thomas “Tim” Luce, a retired school administrator, will be interim principal of Hatfield Elementary School for the coming academic year. Superintendent John Robert made the announcement Tuesday. Luce retired in 2014 from his position of principal at Maple Elementary School in Easthampton. He spent 30 years in education, serving as principal of schools in Heath, Conway… [Read More]

Memories to guide Smith Academy graduates into life’s next stage

Posted on Saturday, June 1st, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Michael Connors, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 6/1/2019
Link: Complete Article

HATFIELD — There are three main features of Smith Academy that Class of 2019 valedictorian Maia Seetal said she will always remember. The first, she said, were cheap $3 school lunches. The second, a water fountain in the school’s main lobby, which counted how many plastic bottles students saved when filling up reusable containers. “I… [Read More]

Smith Academy launches sign language class

Posted on Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Dusty Christensen, The Gazette
Date: 9/19/2017
Link: Complete Article

HATFIELD — Anyone passing by Brittainy Simpson’s classroom last Friday might have mistakenly thought they were witnessing a small miracle: a class of high school students making not a peep, a kind of silence unheard of during the very last period on the last day of the week. However, although the students were audibly silent,… [Read More]

Local schools to form rural association

Posted on Friday, April 22nd, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Diane Broncaccio, The Recorder
Date: 4/12/2016
Link: Complete Article

DEERFIELD — About 16 western Massachusetts school superintendents and others agreed Monday morning to start a “Massachusetts Association of Rural Schools” to address common issues faced by sprawling rural school districts with sparse student enrollment. Michael Buoniconti, superintendent of the Mohawk Trail and Hawlemont regional school districts, was voted in as chairman of the new… [Read More]