As the 2023-2024 school year begins, Naugatuck High School gives a warm welcome to fourteen new staff members! While our students and facility will miss our beloved teachers from the 2022-2023 school year who have retired or gone their separate ways, we are excited to get to know our new staff.

Mr. Joseph Williams, a new Naugatuck High School mathematics teacher, is ready to start the school year off in a positive direction. Williams teaches four sections of financial literacy and one section of FTS, (Functions, Trigs, and Statistics.) 

He was a former teacher at City Hill Middle School for nine years. He says he chose to come to NHS because one of his strengths is “making connections with my [his] students,” specifically students heading into the real world.  

At the height of the COVID pandemic, Williams taught students at CHMS who are now the senior class at NHS. Due to the sudden ending of the school year in 2020, he didn’t have the opportunity to have closure. Now that everyone is back in entirely in-person learning, Williams gets to reconnect with everyone he has taught in the past. 

“While making connections is obviously important in any grade you teach, I feel like with seniors, which is what I teach now, they are right on the cusp of going into the real world and they are right at that peak moment where their lives are really taking a direction.” He wishes to “help steer a lot of them towards the path of success.” 

Williams attended Western Connecticut State University and he studied secondary education with a focus on math. 

As this is his tenth year of teaching and he is no stranger to the Naugatuck Public School system, NHS welcomes Mr. Williams and is ready to have an extraordinary year.