Silver Schools’ Superintendent Search - Hobbs’ Will Hawkins maintains focus on teacher development
Editor’s note: This is the third of four profiles of candidates for the next superintendent of the Silver Consolidated Schools.
William D. “Will” Hawkins, one of four finalists for the position of Silver Schools superintendent, is a dynamic communicator whose 23-year career began with classroom teaching of English and history, which led to serving as a principal and eventually a transition to administrative posts.
Hawkins now holds the position of assistant superintendent for human resources, and prior to that, assistant superintendent for secondary instruction for the Hobbs Municipal Schools.
LWV NEWS
On Thursday, Mar. 18, at noon during their Lunch with a Leader program, the League of Women Voters will host Richard Skolnik and Thomas Massaro who will talk about COVID-19. Massaro will discuss and answer questions about different aspects of COVID, how it can affect children, and the safe return to school as well as an update on the virus in New Mexico and how we are doing winning the fight. Skolnik will present information on the virus from a world vision and the path forward to stop this pandemic.
Thomas Massaro M.D. PhD, is a State School Health Officer whose speciality is pediatrics.He works with the NM Public Education Department as well as maintaining a private practice as a pediatrician in Santa Fe. He will be ready to answer all the questions you have about COVID.
Created: January 14, 2021 06:07 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Now that we are ten months into this pandemic, parents understand the struggles their children face each day participating in virtual learning. Parents across New Mexico have seen their children disengage and in many cases not participate in learning at all. The KOB 4 Investigates team sent out a records request to every New Mexico school district requesting attendance data. The information that came back reveals more than 22,000 students statewide have been listed as chronically absent, or missing more than 20% of instructional time.
Solutions
In our request, KOB also asked school districts how they are working to bring students back into learning. The methods are wide-ranging from involving law enforcement and CYFD to calls to parents to administrators literally going door to door looking for students.
January 15, 2021
Silver may cut superintendent search short, hire Clough Written by Dean Thompson on January 15, 2021
Ashley Montenegro was voted in as the new president of the Silver Schools Board of Education Thursday night, but outgoing President Eddie Flores put a little wrinkle in the board’s plans.
During discussion on the superintendent search, Flores said, “After listening to my constituents and staff, I wonder if we should end the search, and name Mr. [Curtis] Clough the superintendent. He’s here, and if we wait too long, we might not have him here.”
“You really threw me a curveball with that,” Montenegro responded. “We can talk about it, but we wouldn’t be able to vote until it’s on the agenda. We’d have to talk about having a special meeting, or getting it on the next agenda” for Feb. 15.