by Marty Green ·
Friday, April 17, 2026
The School Committee voted unanimously at its meeting April 13 to hire Molly Superchi as the district’s new assistant superintendent, with a three-year contract starting July 1. Superchi will replace Dana Labb in that position as he moves up to become superintendent.
Superchi comes to Harvard with more than 20 years’ experience in public education, with the last dozen years in school administration. Most recently she has been assistant superintendent in the Narragansett Regional School District for four years. Before that, she was director of curriculum and instruction in the Athol-Royalston School District, where she had previously served as a principal.
Both those districts have somewhat larger enrollments than Harvard, and the School Committee asked Superchi how she felt about coming to a smaller district. “I grew up in a small community,” she said, “and my heart is in serving small communities.”
Superchi began her career in Vermont where she was first a classroom teacher and later an academic support teacher. She earned a Master of Education degree in language and literacy from Simmons College and also a Professional Master of Education degree from Keene State College in New Hampshire. She was also briefly an adjunct professor at Keene.
Labb told the School Committee that the district received 43 applications for the assistant superintendent’s position. A 10-member screening committee included representatives from the Bromfield School, Hildreth Elementary School, and the community. That committee reviewed all the applications and held virtual interviews with 10 candidates, from which three finalists were selected for in-person interviews.