The Carbon School Board announced the appointment of Lance T. Hatch as the new Superintendent of Schools on July 19.
He will start work August 1.
“I am excited to be here,” said Hatch during a short interview. “My wife is from here and I attended the College of Eastern Utah to get my Associate Degree. I really like the Price area.”
Hatch is from La Sal, a small town south of Moab in San Juan County.
CEU graduate
After graduating from CEU in 1997 he went to Southern Utah University and was awarded his Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, with a minor in Spanish. He later got his Master’s Degree from Utah State University and an administrative certificate.
In 2015 he was awarded a PhD in Teaching, Education and Leadership. His dissertation was titled “Expert Rural Elementary School Teachers’ Planning for Effective Instruction.”
His entire teaching experience and educational background is working with rural schools. He began his teaching career in Uintah School District at an elementary school where he taught the second, fourth and fifth grades.
Later he became a Principal at Monticello Elementary in San Juan School District.
He later became the Elementary Supervisor in that district.
In 2012 he relocated to Uintah County where he became Principal at Ashley Elementary School, during which time he worked on and was awarded his PhD. The Uintah School District then promoted him to be the Director of Human Resources, a position he has held the last two years.
His wife, Sherstin (Whitehead) Hatch, grew up in Carbon County. The couple have four children, Yaerli 19, Trinalee, 16, Keenan, 14 and Kitanni, 10.
Hatch replaces Steve Carlsen, who departed June 30 to become superintendent in the Box Elder County schools.