Robin Hands brings experience and expertise to her new role

Sacred Heart University’s Isabelle Farrington College of Education has brought on Robin Hands as the new director of clinical practice.

Hands, of Springfield, MA, began her experience in education as a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher in 1981. Throughout her career, she rose to elementary school principal, taught at Northern Vermont University and the University of Vermont and was the program supervisor for the Collaborative Teacher Education Program at the University of Massachusetts. Directly before coming to SHU, Hands was the director of school-university partnerships and an associate clinical professor at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education.